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ireland said:

kevin kee said:

schlack said:

Ugh that camera nub. Won't it get scratched up when only using the smart cover? So unApple like.

I am only interested in one thing with this new iPad Pro: the 120 Hz display! (is it the same thing as 120 FPS?) That is one hell of display.

They aren’t “frames” as the screen isn’t playing a film. Hertz are cycles per second. But tbh I’m unsure how it relates to FPS. You’d be inclined to think they are the same thing but it’s not clear to me that they are. E.G. a video shot a 120 FPS appears to slow down, but a 120 Hz iPad display smoothens interactions and visuals and in some ways (drawing latency) appears to speed up; your interactions do not slow down. I could make what I consider are some obvious assumptions, but I’d lack the expertise to know.

Another example is most TVs are 50 or 60 Hz, but they don’t seem to mess with a 24 FPS film—quite a different number. And some 120 Hz TV displays with certain settings active completely ruin the filmic look of a standard 24 FPS movie making actors appear to move in a hyper-robotic fashion and the picture can appear very digital and unreal or inhuman and fake (it could be another setting and reason, but I’ve never seen a 50-60 Hz TV do similar crap). Hence why I assume Apple throttles Hz for certain kinds of content. Thankfully they have the sense to do this. Judging by the out-of-box experience of some TVs I doubt other makers would be as smart.

flabber said:

@AppleZulu: Isn't that what they also said about the 'trashcan' Mac Pro? 

There are plenty of pro's that use PCI-equipment for audio or video editing/creation for example. With the previous Pro desktops you could buy a PCI card and basically integrate a lot into your desktop, inclúding a new GPU, better/bigger HD's and SSD's, and more ram. With the current Mac Pro and the to be-released iMac Pro, that's just not possible. 


@Steven N: I know avid hobbyists usually care less about upgradeability. But don't you think a pro usually tends to spend more on devices than these hobbyists? This iMac Pro (it ís a "Pro" segmented device/name) is 33% more expensive compared to a Mac Pro, is pretty much equally as not-upgradeable, and ment for hobbyists?