melgross said:

foregoneconclusion said:

ascii said:

How much RAM will it have, more than 4?

My own guess would be at least 6GB and possibly 8GB if they're showing desktop versions of Autocad and Photoshop + Xbox One S level games. 

Yeah. Adobe was showing a 3Gig file running - quickly!

Yeah, and Adobe is not known for svelte code 

dhawkins541 said:

rogifan_new said:

ascii said:

How much RAM will it have, more than 4?

Apple never says how much RAM is in an iOS device.

I bet it's at least 6 gigs though usually pro iPads are higher than top iPhones

Yeah, based on the Adobe demo, I suspect there is at least 6 GB RAM!

In a recent article, AI discussed:

Following the rollout to over 11,000 iPads to the 2018 freshman class, Ohio State University has started to see the benefits of their ambitious program including improvements in grades, higher campus engagement, and the eventual savings of millions of dollars for students.

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"This unique program will give students access to the incredible learning tools on iPad, as well as Apple's new coding curriculum that teaches critical skills for jobs in some of the country's fastest-growing sectors," Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the time." I'm thrilled the broader central Ohio community will also have access to coding opportunities through Ohio State's new iOS Design Lab."

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/25/massive-ipad-deployment-at-osu-paying-long-term-dividends-in-higher-education


One of the things OSU students use the iPad Pros for is coding...

While Apple's Swift Playgrounds App for the iPad is good for teaching concepts and incidental coding, IMO it is not very good for actual code development...

IMO, the iPad Pro would be great for [heavy-lifting] code development if it could run Xcode with an external keyboard/trackpad case.

How to accomplish that brings up an interesting dichotomy:

1. Should Xcode be ported to the iPod Pro (if it isn't already running there)?
2. Should macOS be ported to the iPod Pro (if it isn't already running there)?

...typin' this on my iMac 5K, while listening' to David Bromberg singing "I like to sleep late in the morning" in stereo on paired HomePods... Nice!

radarthekat said:

Apple disrupting yet another industry: college textbooks.  Without even directly taking action.

Yes!  The textbook industry needs disrupting... three grandkids attending college.

lkrupp said:

robin huber said:

Solution to low rate of millennial voting: there’s an app for that. When States climb out of their dusty old voting laws and make voting online happen, millenials may vote at even HIGHER rates than others. Grandma and grandpa stuck with snail mail long after email had taken over. Problem is, Grandpas and Grandmas are making the decisions about how elections should be run. Demand voting for the 21st century NOW. 

Considering the awful state of online security these days I would NEVER accept online voting. In fact it could actually suppress voting. The Apple discussion forums are full of frantic requests from users on how to recover their Apple ID and passwords. Imagine the chaos of voters not being able to login to the voting site, dropped connections, poor WiFi, and a myriad of other glitches that would prevent someone from voting. The most poorly designed websites are always the government ones. The brick and mortar polls are bad enough as it is.

This from a grandpa:  Vote with ApplePay to handle the security, No?