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Apple Unleashes the M4: A Powerhouse for the New iPad Pro (www.arktrek.shop)
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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 76 points 7 months ago (17 children)

The perfect powerhouse chip to handle the iPad's cut-down OS and half-baked apps because Apple refuses to take the iPad's software seriously.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 37 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I would be way way more excited about this if I could actually use the iPad as a dev machine rather than just a big web browser.

Gimme a full terminal, let me run containers, open up installing full Mac apps, and I will buy one today to replace my aging 2017 MacBook Pro.

Of course, then their “product differentiation” vanishes and the shareholders make slightly less money…

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Amen brother.

I’ll buy a 13’’ iPad Pro right now if it could do all those "non-mobile OS" things for a perfect small productivity machine.

Hell, I’ll even buy the official pen, keyboard and the non-existent docking station for office use.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago

It’s so frustratingly close to perfect too. It has a great screen, is more than powerful enough for all my dev work, it’s super portable, I can plug it into a monitor via alt mode, my Bluetooth keyboard works great on it…

It is like right there to being my favorite device, but the crappy mobile OS relegates it to sitting unused on my desk 85% of the time.

Really the only thing I use it for is CAD work via Shapr3D.

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

tim apple just added you to a list for even posting this. keeping saying these things online and tim will send his goons.

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