Tyler
Steve Troughton-SmithA $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot đ
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BeBo@stroughtonsmith especially Terminal
Carlo Zottmann
Gabriel N@czottmann @stroughtonsmith I like my iPad mini very much, use it daily, but only as a consumption device.
Edward Munn@wtrmt @czottmann @stroughtonsmith Same. Itâs my chilling computer! (Though mine is a 2018 iPad Pro 12.9 in Zoomed mode!)
MaysonLancaster@wtrmt @czottmann @stroughtonsmith My iPad mini 2 is over 12 years old, but itâs still my go-to ereader, used nearly every day. And it got an OS update a couple months ago to 12.5.8.
@stroughtonsmith how can you fit Xcode there? Youâll run out of disk space quite soonâŚ
root42@root42 can it be run externally? It needs to be able to access a whole lot of items that it installs in the system, and not very small ones.
I added a large internal drive to a MacBook Pro 2012 and moved the users folders there, but not only it was difficult to do and a problematic solution afterwards, but impossible to do in this case.
Mehdi Kharraz@wtrmt @root42 Sequoia added a setting in the Mac App Store to install apps larger than 1 GB to a an external disk: https://support.apple.com/guide/app-store/download-install-large-apps-a-separate-disk-fir06754f864/mac
Haven't tested it but from what I understand, it creates all the necessary folders (Applications, Library and so on) on the disk automatically.
Haven't tested it but from what I understand, it creates all the necessary folders (Applications, Library and so on) on the disk automatically.
@wtrmt @stroughtonsmith Runs fine on my 512GB Mac.
@edmn @stroughtonsmith yes, and I understand that the Neo has only 256GB
@wtrmt @stroughtonsmith 512GB upgrade (gets Touch ID too)
@edmn @stroughtonsmith that one is much nicer
Jan@stroughtonsmith
Price discrimimation.
Price discrimimation.
tomaskafka@stroughtonsmith Maximizing short term shareholder value.
Or, Mac hardware team getting really pissed at iPad software team and taking the battle to the streets.
Grae McDevit đłď¸ââ§ď¸ has moved@stroughtonsmith Making you buy anozher zhing to get more money
GermĂĄn EnrĂquez
Knut đłď¸âđ đłđ´đ§¸@stroughtonsmith I have a M5 MBP that is killer. And I'm getting a iPad mini because of Logic for iPad. But when I was buying my MBP I looked at the iPad Pro and if you're a musician, just a mini is where it's at for sketching and on the go sample editing. But the Neo will be exciting for blossoming young musicians with Garageband. I've heard some OUTRAGEOUSLY great stuff from kids on Garageband.
MegatronicThronBanks@stroughtonsmith You didn't pay enough!!!!
(dubious) opinion haver 
@stroughtonsmith But can it run Genshin Impact?
AnimeAndVisial@stroughtonsmith And we canât forget the fact that it doesnât even come with a text editor
lumettaria@stroughtonsmith there's a $3k iPad?
abhijithb21@stroughtonsmith Isn't it well established that the purpose of an iPad Pro is to say "I paid, bro" without saying it?
Jeffrey Bergier@stroughtonsmith Don't forget that it can also run unsigned code đ
Jochen Marschall@stroughtonsmith
The Mac mini G4 was able to do that as well.
The âhardware limitationsâ were never a true excuse.
The Mac mini G4 was able to do that as well.
The âhardware limitationsâ were never a true excuse.
John Cleary@stroughtonsmith Paying price of 15 years of AppStore strategy failings that killed the platform?
Nathan Snelgrove@stroughtonsmith we are using iPads as second screens and workout monitors and sketchpads and⌠not much else.
But all 3 of those things are insanely valuable to me.