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That M4 and OLED screen is gonna display the SHIT out of some sheet music for me.
I get the sarcasm, but isn’t that exactly what E-Paper tablets are really good at?
isn’t that exactly what E-Paper tablets are really good at?
I would love to use an e-Ink screen, because they play much better with stage lighting.
However, I’ve yet to see one that can do what I want the iPad to do, sheet-music-wise. I don’t only want to see it, I want to be able to make markings, scan scores, act as a pitch pipe and metronome, have an onscreen keyboard to plunk out the part I’m singing if I’m struggling to read it, etc.
Edit: Realistically, I could use my phone for the scanning, pitch, metronome, and keyboard. But I want to be able to quickly make markings and the iPad shines at this, especially with the app forScore.
(That also isn’t the only thing I use my iPad for, just the main excuse I have for owning one. I actually probably will buy the M4 Pro, but mainly because I already have a buyer for my current iPad and because it’s so much lighter.)
There are absolutely devices that can do this already.
We even have Android eink phones now.
Can you recommend some? I’m intrigued!
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Kindle Scribe
Supernote A6X (Android)
Onyx Boox Note Air 3 (Android)
Onyx Boox Tab Ultra (Android)
Kobo Elipsa
Lenovo Smart Paper (Android)
Bigme (Android)
Huawei MatePad Paper (Android)
Thanks! I remember I didn’t like the Kindle Scribe (though I don’t really remember why). I’ll have to look through the others.
We even have Android eink phones now.
Sure, but I don’t really want to read sheet music off a phone. I need to be able to see the score and the conductor AND look like everyone else in the chorus, so I have to be able to hold it a good distance from my face.
Edit: Same reason I never bothered to try using my Kindle. 😂
Ah again. One more moving target to chase for the nice AsahiLinux project.
That just means asahi linux not gonna die and will be really long lived project because it have a clear purpose, well, it is if we try to have positive outlook on situation
Top sku iPad pros with the keyboard case cost more than some MacBooks and people try and use them like MacBooks, which is crazy to me given the severe limitations of iPadOS compared to macOS.
The iPad Pro screen looks pretty good, but don’t need all that processing power to just watch videos and browse websites.
Was really hoping they would upgrade the iPad Mini.
ipad pro is specifically marketed for artists and their software actually needs power and speed. Having OLED on mini would be great. It’s one of my most beloved devices.
It’s a really good point though, it is a bit of an odd device with all that power and the significant limitations in software. Yeah it’s marked at artists, but if you’re talking about drawing with pen input, it’s actually pretty overpowered. There’s Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro but they benefit a lot less from a touch screen, and there’s a bunch of workflow issues due to iOS’ lack of a file system.
I really wish Apple would add some kind of “windowed mode” like Samsung Dex or the Surface Tablets. A $2.5k super high-powered device that can’t even open two Excel sheets side by side is quite strange.
There’s procreate which introduced advanced animation and effects thanks to the new chip. I also know people use it heavily for 3D modeling. “Drawing with pen input” is the use case for the rest of the line up, Pro is specifically for computation heavy professions.
ipads have side by side window view and float over view, of course it should be much better but viewing two apps or tabs side by side hasn’t been an issue for me. Maybe excel just doesn’t support opening a second window or a separate tab.
Yeah for sure everything you say makes sense, but at the same time there is a definite lack of software that makes use of all that power for a broader range of professionals.
Personally, I’d love to replace my aging MacBook with a small and light iPad Pro that I can also use for convenient note taking on the go, but the problem is a complete lack of a (viable) software development stack, and that’s despite IDEs like VSCode being web-based and with that theoretically capable of running on iOS. I know some of my friends are in the same situation; one of them relies on Blender, the other on Ableton.
The inability of running two instances of Word / Excel etc. may very well be Microsoft’s fault, but that doesn’t change the fact that as a user you can’t do it.
In theory I guess a Surface is exactly what I’m looking for, but switching to Windows would be a bit of a hard pill to swallow. Which is why I’m left wishing that Apple would offer some kind of hybrid tablet / laptop device like the Surface, capable of running full desktop apps and full desktop-style multitasking. I understand that that’s “not the vision” or whatever, but it creates an awkward situation where the hardware of this lineup is more than adequate but the viability of the device as a whole is limited by software.
yes I completely agree, especially on the development part - doing masters now and basically have to choose if I want to take notes or be able to code, and it’s annoying. The funny thing is I have both macbook and ipad, but I don’t want to carry both because I’m weak af.
It’s just wild that there are literal billions being poured into monkey parrot gpts while we can’t have the simplest issues resolved.
Sounds like they are using it to reduce the size of the battery.
I have recently bought older generation 12.9" iPad Pro and an M2 MBP through Backmarket at a fraction of the price. I’m primarily a Linux user but I bought the iPad for the screen and the MBP for music production. Even though they are years old, they still have more processing power than I need.
I just finished the full soundtrack of a theatre play using AsahiLinux on my M2pro mbp. I resorted to macos only to render some heavy video tracks.
Wow is the first time I heard about linux on iPad. Which guide did you use?
You may have misread. They are using Asahi on their MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro chip.
mbp = macbook pro , unless you forgot the /s
haha no, I took it as m2 ipad pro. Not sarcastic, just naive with some wishful thinking. Got super excited over the idea
Mbp sorry, not iPad :(
https://piped.video/watch?v=1iiFhhOkv14
It is now based on fedora not arch, but the install process is the same
Does any one care?
There was so much hype on this generation of silicon and the landing has seemed extremely flat to me, largely because Apple.
Do you just mean M4? Or all Apple Silicon?
Everything since the M1. Mind blowing hype, graphs that seem shocking at announcement. Data that comes in below these graphs, then owing to the extremely high walls of the garden, a sigh and shoulder shrug at what you can do with the technology, because although cool and seemingly very powerful, you just can’t do much with it because of apples buisness philosophy.
Then buy similar hardware from a competitor that meets your needs. I mean, Apple was never innovative, so you surely can get something better somewhere else?
I mean, Apple was never innovative, so you surely can get something better somewhere else?
That wasn’t stated by this person, no? It is a common fallacy to disprove a claim that wasn’t made.
The user only stated they can’t think of a use-case for the hardware, and therefore innovation is useless. They don’t even have to use it.
So raytracing will be supported in iPad apps now…
So far the M4 seems to only be announced for the iPad.
It’s now seven iPhones in a trenchcoat
How fast will that run an iPod?
About tree fiddy
