A $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 😑

[aslmewes@ruhr.social]

@stroughtonsmith especially Terminal

[czottmann@norden.social]

@stroughtonsmith

> What are we doing here?

Not buying iPads, that's for sure

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@czottmann @stroughtonsmith I like my iPad mini very much, use it daily, but only as a consumption device.

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith how can you fit Xcode there? You’ll run out of disk space quite soon…

[root42@chaos.social]

@wtrmt external SSD?

[j_j@muenchen.social]

@stroughtonsmith
Price discrimimation.

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@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.

[tomaskafka@mastodonczech.cz]

@stroughtonsmith Maximizing short term shareholder value.

Or, Mac hardware team getting really pissed at iPad software team and taking the battle to the streets.

[edmn@mastodon.social]

@wtrmt @stroughtonsmith Runs fine on my 512GB Mac.

[edmn@mastodon.social]

@wtrmt @czottmann @stroughtonsmith Same. It’s my chilling computer! (Though mine is a 2018 iPad Pro 12.9 in Zoomed mode!)

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@edmn @stroughtonsmith yes, and I understand that the Neo has only 256GB

[edmn@mastodon.social]

@wtrmt @stroughtonsmith 512GB upgrade (gets Touch ID too)

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@edmn @stroughtonsmith that one is much nicer

[grae8672@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith Making you buy anozher zhing to get more money

[geillescas@techhub.social]

@stroughtonsmith
That's called #capitalism and you better like it

[praetor@mstdn.social]

@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@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith You didn't pay enough!!!!

[farah@beige.party]

@stroughtonsmith But can it run Genshin Impact?

[animeandvisial@mastodon.social]

@stroughtonsmith And we can’t forget the fact that it doesn’t even come with a text editor

[muthomi@mastodon.social]

@tomaskafka @stroughtonsmith very interesting battle