According to a recent report by seasoned industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the M5-powered iPad Pro is set to enter mass-production towards the latter half of next year. This falls in line with previous information that came courtesy of supply chain sources.
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I’m not one to buy Apple products, but I keep hearing amazing things about their M4 devices. Most of them come with quite some dealbrealers compared to the competition, such as soldered RAM across the board, and Apple proprietary storage on the Mini (which they just have to tack an Apple tax onto).
The iPad’s pretty much the only thing they make where the competition shares most of the same drawbacks (especially if either self-repair is proven to work, or parts pairing gets banned in enough jurisdicitions). Most of the reason that I don’t want one is that I don’t want to move into yet another proprietary ecosystem.
So, ever since learning about the fact that Asahi Linux exists, I’ve been dreaming about an iPad that can run arbitrary OS’es just like the Macs. Imagine running something like Plasma Mobile or Phosh on an iPad, with full desktop apps being ready should you need them. I hope I get to see something like that someday, whether through an exploit, legislation or just Apple finally coming around.
Crap, I’m fresh out of hopium
After using an M2 MacBook Air with only 8gb for the past few years, I really wouldn’t worry about the ram. Now that 16gb is the base model you’ll be fine, you won’t ever need to upgrade it.
Seriously macOS just doesn’t use a ton of ram and it handles ram pressure extremely well. I do a most of my development work on only 8gb of ram
More than soldering, it’s actually packaged, physically placed into the same single black package as the CPU and GPU and storage, and then that whole single package is soldered to the board.