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MacQuadra840av said:

xander0985 said:

AppleInsider said:

With its A14 Bionic processor, compared to the 11-inch iPad Pro's A12Z Bionic, there is more power in the new iPad Air.

That is likely not the case. The A12Z has four high-performance cores to the A14's two, and eight GPU cores to the A14's four. I'd expect better single-core performance from the Air, but the Pro is likely to be more performant in multi-core and GPU applications. This is the second comparison article from Apple Insider that failed to point out these differences. If I were in the market, I would certainly hold out for an iPad Pro update to A14-class chips, but I don't think one can presume that the Air is more powerful than the Pro given the information that we have.

Exactly this!  Both AI articles comparing the Air and the Pro intentionally left out this key information.  Just because one processor is 'two numbers' higher than the other, does not make it faster.  The A14 is lacking the high performance cores and has half the amount of graphics cores compared to the A12Z.  Also, the fact that the Pro has the superior display with ProMotion, does not make the Air automatically faster.  Stop pretending the new Air has better features than the Pro.  It clearly doesn't.  It might look like a Pro, but it isn't.

Alex1N said:

SpamSandwich said:

mike1 said:

Just installed on all my devices and generally I’m happy with the updates. However, what the heck happened to the Favorites widget??? It was the single most important widget to me. 

It’ll take a little time on your part to set up your widgets to your liking again.

And I’ve discovered yet another bug. When there is a “stack” widget the various other screens you’re supposed to be able to scroll through remain invisible until you get out of the widget view. iOS 14 is rather buggy for me so far.

This is the showstopper confirmation for me, thanks @SpamSandwich. I was going to see how pOS 14 travelled before installing in any case but this confirms my (hard-bitten) wariness. I waited until pOS 13.3 before installing that nightmare on my 6th gen ipad and I bitterly regretted doing that (and still do). The reasons? They are Legion, but have a lot to do with cursor placement, insane (in a really bad way), idiotic non- beginning-of-sentence/paragraph) single character capitalisations (recent introduction), undocumented Safari gesture gimmicks, and so on and so forth. I now use Firefox (on MacOS), which saves me from most of the nasty swipe ‘accidents’. 8’m watching other people’s experiences like a hawk now.

jdb8167 said:

Just by having svanstrom said:

jdb8167 said:

svanstrom said:

jdb8167 said:

SpamSandwich said:

Wouldn’t mind it if they engineered a Liquid Metal body version to replace the ceramic. Or a transparent diamond case... that would be pretty spectacular.

I'm a big fan of the natural titanium. It looks great and has been pretty durable but not as durable as the ceramic.

I want the natural titanium, and I wanted it last year; but not without a matching Milanese loop.

I bought a Milanese loop with the Series 2 stainless steel and vowed never to buy one again because the Milanese actually scratched the heart rate sensor. Not a great design.

Not sure how you managed to do that. I'm 5+ years into having stainless steel watches with the Milanese loop without any problems.

Just by having the watch rest on top of the loop and apparently rubbing when moved. It was stainless steel black now that I recall with the black Milanese loop. That might make a difference with the DLC coating (I think I remember that on the SS Black Milanese Loop). It was a long time ago so perhaps Apple has fixed that problem. But I would still be wary.