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It is getting absurd at this poin. Just get a laptop and call it a day

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[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yea? Are the graphics of the ipad that good? They have iphone level chips right (except for the pro ones, but those are like $1000+)

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They have laptop level chips right now

There is no more iPad, just pro, air, mini, and the newest air has an M2 chip, though it’s a bit handicapped with one less GPU core

That being said, no, an M2 chip on an iPad Air is nowhere near dedicate GPU hardware like on these handhelds.

https://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx50&D=Apple+iPad+Air+6th+Gen+%28M2%29&testgroup=overall

As you said, maybe once you get into iPad Pro ranges with the M4 chip, but at that price point it’s way more.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Still very cool that it is even possible on arm chips in such slim devices. The future of handhelds might just be a lot slimmer an energy efficient if ARM really catches on.