![]() Its performance, both from the CPU and GPU, is simply bananas. But put that aside for a moment and consider the new iPad Pro only as a portable computing device. The main appeal of an iPad has always been about the experience of using one. The experience was completely fluid and instantaneous. The photos were by Austin Mann, who was there, and helpfully demoed the software, showing what a real pro photographer would do in real life with real images. At the hands-on area after last week’s event, Apple was showing Adobe Lightroom editing 50 megapixel RAW images from a Hasselblad camera. I think there are people who will and should buy the new iPad Pro because of its performance. “No one buys an iPad because of CPU benchmarks”, I wrote last year. The new iPads are faster than most recent MacBook Pro models. And that’s the current top-of-the-line MacBook Pro. ![]() But even with 512 GB of storage, the new iPad Pro is just $1,150 for the 11-inch model and $1,350 for the 12.9-inch. That’s not an entirely fair comparison - for one thing, the base storage for that MacBook Pro is 512 GB and for the iPad it’s 64 GB. That 15-inch MacBook Pro costs $3,100 with the base amount of RAM and storage. The new iPad Pros, equipped with Apple’s A12X system-on-a-chip, are now competitive in both single- and multi-core performance with the very fastest MacBook Pro you can buy. Holds its own against the MacBook Pro in single-core The astounding thing is that the new iPad Pro Forget about comparisons to the one-port MacBook - the iPad Pro blows that machine out of the water No one buys an iPadīecause of CPU benchmarks, but the new iPad Pro’s CPU performance When I reviewed the previous generation of iPad Pros in June 2017, I wrote:Īpple’s in-house chip team continues to amaze. ![]() In the iPad universe, Moore’s Law still delivers year after year, and a super-fast, genuinely “pro” portable needs no fan. In the normal universe, Moore’s Law has stopped delivering significant year-over-year returns, and high-performance portables need fans to cool them. The iPad Pro is like a computer from an alternate universe. The 2018 iPad Pros Monday, 5 November 2018 ![]()
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