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Tame Apple Press declares the death of the laptop again

by on19 March 2020


After Apple release a new iPad Pro which does the same things as the old one

Fruity cargo cult Apple’s legions of fans in the tech press are telling the world+dog that its new iPad Pro 2020 will “finally” kill off the laptop PC.

Apple unveiled the new generation iPad Pro (2020) yesterday and the Tame Apple Press has been quick to claim that the device will kill off the laptop PC once and for all.

“With iPadOS, Apple’s dream of replacing laptops finally looks like a reality”, gushed MacWorld.

The New York Times Farhad Manjoo claimed, against all evidence that “Steve Jobs was right: smartphones and tablets killed the PC”.

“I got an iPad Pro recently, and I’ve fallen madly in love with it. This was unexpected. I’ve had iPads before, but like a lot of people, I hadn’t found them to be very useful. Tablets were good for surfing the Web and watching Netflix, but they’ve always been dogged by the charge that you couldn’t get a lot of work done on them.”

He claimed that Apple’s latest iPads are different. “Not only can you get work done on them; in many ways they’re productivity dream machines. Today’s iPads are powered by custom-designed processors that are faster than the chips on some of the MacsApple makes, and the iPad’s separately sold keyboard is better and more durable than the accursed, falling-apart mess of a keyboard that Apple is shipping on its much-maligned current line of laptops.”

However it is pretty clear that this is all psychosomatic. While the new iPad Pro comes with an all-new chipset, the A12Z Bionic, which, according to Apple, provides the iPad Pro with more power and faster performance than most Windows PC laptops.

What should have made the tech press cautious is that Apple did not actually provide any performance metrics.

According to Mysmartprice the new generation iPad Pro has made now made a visit to AnTuTu, which shines a light on its performance.

The Apple iPad Pro 2020 has scored 7,12,218 points for the overall performance. While everyone was expecting it to outrun the iPad Pro (2019) by a huge margin, that, unfortunately, isn’t the case. The iPad Pro 2019 is just slightly behind the new iPad Pro 2020 with a score of 7,05,585 points.

The iPad Pro 2020, however, has a significant leap over its predecessor in terms of GPU performance, as it has scored 3,73,781 points in the GPU test as compared to the score of 3,45,016 points that the iPad Pro 2019 has managed to achieve. Surprisingly, the iPad Pro 2020 is significantly slower than iPad Pro 2019 in terms of memory (RAM) performance, as the former has scored 74,998 points in the RAM test and the latter has achieved 95,118 points. That, however, could be due to software optimisation issue.

The CPU scores of the iPad Pro 2020 and iPad Pro 2019 remain the same.

So Apple, and its fans in the Tame Apple Press, are hoping to replace the laptop with a tablet which is only incrementally better than the old one. Good luck with that. No, not really… we really are getting tired of writing stories where world-standard lowering marketing triumphs over good technology.

Anyway, the baseline is that the iPad Pro 2020 is faster than iPad 2019 in terms of GPU performance, whereas, the CPU and RAM performance are mostly unchanged. The scores of both the iPads on AnTuTu is still higher than that of any Android device so far, including the ones with Qualcomm Snapdragon 865.

The 11-inch iPad Pro 2020 starts at $799 for the Wi-Fi model and $949 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model. The 12-inch iPad Pro 2020 starts at $999 for Wi-Fi and $1,149 for Wi-Fi + Cellular. You can buy yourself a rather good laptop for that sort of cash and it will be guaranteed to tell you the correct time.

Last modified on 19 March 2020
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