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  spudlyo
  I'm about to head to the gym with my 12.9-inch 2017 vintage iPad Pro, which is still going strong. I prop it up on the elliptical trainer every other day or so for entertaining me while I grind out an hour of cardio. I use it for reading, watching YouTube, listening to music, audiobooks, etc. It's been my regular gym buddy for years, and is showing no signs of needing to be replaced.It's stuck on iPadOS 17.7.10, which is fine. I can only imagine that these new generation iPads will easily go for the next 10 years.
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  vintagedave
  My current iPad is the iPad Air 3 (the one with the backlight issue that's never been acknowledged, to my understanding.)Can someone explain to me why an iPad at all, let alone an iPad Air, needs as powerful a processor as a M4? That's stronger than my laptop (a M2) where I run multiple VMs and more.
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  css_apologist
  This is an incredible piece of hardware, I just don't know what to do with ithow is music production on it these days?
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  revolvingthrow
  I don't understand the target audience of ipad air.The base ipad is "really big iphone, with a few laptop-esque features". It's reasonably cheap for what it offers, especially if you want a highly mobile media consumption device and handwritten input.Then there's ipad pro, which is wildly overpriced for its specs -- m4 pro has half!! the ram that the cheaper m4 macbook air has, which is laughable for a 'pro' anything, especially if you have apple intelligence enabled - you get what, 3GB of usable ram once you take OS and apple intelligence into account? Yet, aside from the crazy sticker price, the hardware is a lot better - the 120 Hz OLED display looks amazing and is way brighter, the speakers are quite an upgrage, full blown thunderbolt port for external display and so on. The OS is still toy-like, and ram is pitiful, but there is place for an ipad pro.And then there's air which is... base ipad with an M-series chip and pretty much nothing else? The display is barely any better than base ipad, the storage and ram are pitiful, the speakers are from the baseline ipad and so on. Just about the only saving grace of the M4 one announced here is 12GB ram, which is the absolute lowest those really ought to have, and really puts into perspective how utterly miserly Apple was about ram pre-AI. I don't understand the value proposition - you want the baseline you buy a much cheaper base model, you want more you get the pro, right?To be fair the asking price is far less than pro but the upgrades over base model seem so minuscule that I just don't know.
• waynecochran
  When will I be able to run Xcode on one of these?
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  manmal
  Tangential, iPadOS 26 is absolutely unusable on iPad Minis. Who needs window management on an 8" screen?
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  amoss
  No side profile pics on the page. My only concern would be can it lay flat on a table for taking notes or does it have a camera bulge that makes it wobble?
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  easton
  Memory increase to 12GB, guess they still have reasonable pricing.
• eknkc
  I still have no idea wht to do with my previous gen iPad Pro..
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  joezydeco
  The word "value" appears four times in that press release. I sense a theme in the marketing this week.
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  chorkpop
  I wish Apple hadn't decided that colors weren't for pro users. I would love to have any of those.
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  t1234s
  Any chances of getting a new Apple TV 4k this week in time for F1 launch on AppleTV+?
• anon
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  franze
  I love my iPad, best TV i have ever owned.
• jonplackett
  Bet they were hoping for a quieter news week for these announcements.
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  Mindwipe
  The Pro really looks like it's struggling for a reason to exist given how much cheaper this will be and the difference in feature set.
• Noaidi
  Please do not buy any Apple products until Tim Cook takes that gold bar back from Trump? Thanks.
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  bm5k
  Heavier than the iPad Pro. Again. Still.
• irenetusuq
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  magnio
  To me, the tablet form factor is dead with the arrival of the trifold.90% of the people who use tablets I know (including myself) only has four use case: watching video, reading PDF and comics, taking notes, and playing mobile games.All of which are very mobile-oriented tasks that are done on tablets solely for their screen sizes. With trifold bridging the gap between screen sizes and, more importantly, screen ratios, I would love to merge them into one device. This is in contrast with laptops, whose differences in OS and use cases are, to me, much bigger and necessary.Of course, right now they are very much afar from consumers' pockets due to price and reliability. But normal foldables were once in the exact same state, and the fact that Apple is releasing one soon is a sure tale sign of the future of foldables.