![]() ![]() I had decided that Apple should've made a push into the Pro app territory, seeing how many high-grade design apps are now available for the iPad. It was my expectations on the M1 that resulted in my disappointment. But I got myself knotted thinking that an iPad having the 'Mac chip' inside of it meant that I should be able to do more 'Mac stuff.' Had Apple just called the chip inside the iPad Pro the A14X and bumped up the RAM from 6 to 8GB like in years past, I doubt I would have paid it any mind. ![]() It turns out that's exactly the configuration the M1 offers! It might have been a manufacturing decision, or it may have been a marketing decision leaning on the good name the M1 had created for itself. If Apple had done the same thing and put an A14X into the new iPad Pro, the convention would suggest it would have 2-more high-performance cores and a doubling of the GPU cores. Historically when Apple has added an X-suffix to the A-series chips (A12 versus A12X), it coincided with an increase of high-performance cores (from 2-to-4) and a doubling of the GPU cores (from 4-to-8). I have no idea why Apple decided to brand the processor inside the new 2021 iPad Pros as the M1. Not only had I tripped over my expectations, but because Apple had done such an incredible job over the past year highlighting the potential of M1 on the Mac, I had hoped a similar narrative would form around the iPad Pro and was disappointed when it didn't. Despite being familiar with the adage of not buying current hardware on the promise of future software, with WWDC right around the corner, how could you not begin to imagine what M1 could mean for the iPad Pro? Would that mean new Pro Apps? Proper external display support? Or maybe exclusive Pro features in iPadOS?Īs it turned out, WWDC did little to showcase the heights of what an M1 on an iPad Pro was capable of. When Apple announced the next generation of iPad Pros would feature Apple's M1 chip and up to 16GB of RAM, I couldn't help beginning to fantasize what that would mean for the future of the iPad and iPadOS. ![]()
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