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OtinG · 04-19-2021, 11:57 AM

I'm expecting new and/or updated iPad Pro models. Beyond that I have no clue. There is a lot of speculation, but I guess we will have to wait until tomorrow to find out. With all the speculation, I’m sure a lot of people will be disappointed if the focus is mostly on new iPad Pros rather than including all the other speculated goodies, but traditionally the spring event has centered around iPad Pros.

I'm definitely waiting for at least the 2nd generation of M1/M1X chips before I even consider a new Mac. The non-M1 Macs are too expensive, and the M1 Macs have the reported SSD issue and they haven't released enough native apps for them yet. I'm currently using a 2012 Mac mini and a 2014 MacBook Pro 15" Retina, both with internal HDD, both with old ports that are really too slow for external SSD drives to be fast enough. The internal HDD is faster than the USB SSD external I bought, way faster. The old MacBook Pro has two Thunderbolt 2 ports, but SSD with them are too expensive. At any rate, I manage to get what I need from my current Macs, so not worth updating until better M1/M1X or later chips are used, and only then after a sufficient number of apps I use have been updated for them. By contrast, my new iPad Air 2020 has very fast file transfer via USB C. But older ports on my old Macs are just too slow...

Since getting my iPad Air 2020 I’ve found myself moving more of my computer tasks to it. With the Logitech folio keyboard case, Logitech Crayon, and a good USB C multiport hub, it is more like a laptop than I thought it would be. But unfortunately iPadOS lacks the ability to really function well as a high enthusiast or professional RAW photo processing platform. Using Photoshop and Lightroom is good for working with a few RAW photos at a time, but so far it has not been useful aligning and stacking dozens to hundreds of images to create the kind of astrophotos I like. That is more of a lack of specialized software than hardware on iPadOS though, and even the macOS is limited to very little software for this. Although I suspect the 3GB RAM on the iPad Air 2020 will be way too small for such processing anyway.

04-19-2021, 11:57 AM	#19
OtinG Old Gadget Guy Posts: 1,913 Karma: 6854865 Join Date: Jun 2018 Device: Oasis 3, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPad mini 6, iPad Air 2020, Alexa Devices	I'm expecting new and/or updated iPad Pro models. Beyond that I have no clue. There is a lot of speculation, but I guess we will have to wait until tomorrow to find out. With all the speculation, I’m sure a lot of people will be disappointed if the focus is mostly on new iPad Pros rather than including all the other speculated goodies, but traditionally the spring event has centered around iPad Pros. I'm definitely waiting for at least the 2nd generation of M1/M1X chips before I even consider a new Mac. The non-M1 Macs are too expensive, and the M1 Macs have the reported SSD issue and they haven't released enough native apps for them yet. I'm currently using a 2012 Mac mini and a 2014 MacBook Pro 15" Retina, both with internal HDD, both with old ports that are really too slow for external SSD drives to be fast enough. The internal HDD is faster than the USB SSD external I bought, way faster. The old MacBook Pro has two Thunderbolt 2 ports, but SSD with them are too expensive. At any rate, I manage to get what I need from my current Macs, so not worth updating until better M1/M1X or later chips are used, and only then after a sufficient number of apps I use have been updated for them. By contrast, my new iPad Air 2020 has very fast file transfer via USB C. But older ports on my old Macs are just too slow... Since getting my iPad Air 2020 I’ve found myself moving more of my computer tasks to it. With the Logitech folio keyboard case, Logitech Crayon, and a good USB C multiport hub, it is more like a laptop than I thought it would be. But unfortunately iPadOS lacks the ability to really function well as a high enthusiast or professional RAW photo processing platform. Using Photoshop and Lightroom is good for working with a few RAW photos at a time, but so far it has not been useful aligning and stacking dozens to hundreds of images to create the kind of astrophotos I like. That is more of a lack of specialized software than hardware on iPadOS though, and even the macOS is limited to very little software for this. Although I suspect the 3GB RAM on the iPad Air 2020 will be way too small for such processing anyway.