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I currently have an m1 iPad pro, and I use it daily. Do I get the pro performance out of it? Probably not. I might still upgrade to the m5 for the better display though. These are my use-cases FWIW:

- Goodnotes w/ the apple pen during work

- YouTube during dinner

- Kindle App for technical books (and regular Kindle device for fiction)

- Browsing the internet

- Streaming games with Xbox streaming

I travel for work one week per month-ish, and I don't take a personal laptop anymore since getting my iPad.

Now.. do I really _need_ to upgrade? Probably not, my M1 still runs fine. Decisions Decisions :)

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These use cases are so sad for a device with so much power. Look what Apple has reduced us to.

Life's most precious resource is time. A newer device is often much faster at a person's current routines. Why would you want a fast device to do harder things? Fast alone is worth it.

because if they allowed you to boot linux/macos/windows and dock it to get a full desktop experience, it could replace laptops and even desktop PC for most people. It legit has the cpu power of a >2k$ gaming PC. For the average person buying the ipad pro, the ipad will be the fastest computer in the house, by a very very wide margin.

Not even an iPad, iPhone A series are as powerful laptops and can do just about everything users need to do - even gaming. A19 has over 20 billion transistors it's absurd. How restricted it is, is absurd as well. The most capable chip that has been constrained to tiny subset of potential applications and use cases.

> The most capable chip that has been constrained to tiny subset of potential applications and use cases.

Having run Asahi Linux on an M1, it's obvious that a A and M chips were purpose built/designed together for the software Apple creates.

I have a 2018 MBP that dual boots to Windows. Everything from the color of the screen to the CPU performance is totally unrefined in Bootcamp on Windows compared to the macOS side. Same hardware. A lot of it comes down to how much effort is put into making the hardware and software work efficiently and well together.

Unrelated to the discussion at hand but information for people that game stream on their Apple Devices: If you experience unexplained stuttering, change the 5ghz wifi channel to 149.

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