The new Apple device, the iPad Pro has proven to be a beast when it comes to raw power, with an A9X chip, 4Gb of RAM and a much improved memory architecture, it can handle tasks that any other Apple tablet would be practically incapable of. So much so that a video has appeared across the network where they compare the performance of this tablet with a MacBook Pro when carrying out heavy tasks such as exporting video at 4k resolution through iMovie.
Specifically, the MacBook Pro with which they put him face to face equips neither more nor less than a Intel Core i7 2,3 GHz CPU with 16 GB of RAM and Intel Iris Pro graphics. Surely you will think that it is crazy and that the MacBook Pro will be much faster ... nothing is further from the truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4jLHGkVh0Aunque el MacBook Pro sea la versión de finales de 2013, ya con dos años de edad, todavía se puede considerar for raw performance as a high-performance device, almost the highest of the range except for the integrated graphics where the tester tells us that he did not choose discrete graphics due to battery and fan noise issues, since with Iris Pro it was enough.
There are many skeptics who still think that the iPad Pro is simply an enlarged iPad and in a certain part they are right, but even if it runs iOS (a limited system for certain tasks), it is a team prepared both in power and in possibilities, thanks on everything to the screen diagonal, so that developers can adapt their applications and thus take advantage of the theoretical extra capacity of this iPadYou just need to watch the video to draw our own conclusions.
However, there are also many drawbacks, such as the connectivity limitation reduced to a single lightning port with adapters that work for now only under the USB 2.0 standardIn other words, it is much slower to import files than any other USB 3.0 / 3.1 computer. Still there is talk that variants with USB 3.0 could appear not in a long time.
The biggest drag for now of this iPad is the lack of really professional applications for video editing, that is, they are not present neither Final Cut Pro X nor Logic Pro XFor now, you have to settle for iMovie and GarageBand, which for certain uses are quite limited. For me the greatest advance is the conjunction with the Apple Pencil since I personally believe that this iPad has become the best device for creatives and illustrators.
There is a very big difference that gives the iPad an advantage because although it does not, the Mac is prepared to do other tasks while, but in the case of the iPad it has to be in the foreground. The operating systems are different so it is not fair. But what it does show is that the power of ARM processors is getting closer to x64 and they are the future. Surely Apple is already porting Mac OS X to ARM architectures.