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It's great, sure. But why release an M4 iPad Pro when essentially no software can make use of the processor power improvements since 2018?

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No software? DaVinci Resolve? Affinity Designer? Final Cut, Procreate, AUM, Logic Pro etc etc etc. As the processors get more powerful more demanding software can be made for it. Running multiple physical modeling AUVs along with FX loops eat up clock cycles. Final Cut Camera on iPhones along with Final Cut on an iPad allow for full multi camera controls and recording from 4 different iPhones with ProRes and log shooting at the same time.

If Apple hadn't continually upgraded the processing power then none of those programs would work. It's up to Apple to make compelling hardware. Better hardware allows more advanced programs. iPads are amazing.

Procreate for one is not that CPU hungry. My SO's 4th gen iPad runs it just fine.

The Procreate UI literally tells us otherwise. When you create a new image, it tells you exactly how many layers it will allow you to have based on the dimensions you set. This number is smaller for older iPads.

That's limited by RAM, not CPU.

Are serious people actually using the gimped iPad versions of those pieces of software? I can't really imagine doing serious video editing on an iPad.

Thats the one I would buy if I were thinking of upgrading right now. We expect new models every year at this point, thats been the strategy of Apple for many years at this point

Because people will buy it.

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