I take it the “run macOS on an iPad” situation is still “should technically be possible, some people managed it, but a truckload of work to make work in practice”? Or is there something like the jailbreak installers of old that make it risky but straightforward?
@oktawian@uliwitness Apple seem to make Logic & Final Cut run pretty well (though I realize the OS is lighter-weight and memory management different.) Also, Apple Silicon chips really do have very fast storage access, so use of swap is almost undetectable in most use cases.
@oktawian@morgant Correct me if I'm wrong, but apart from the touch screen vs. keyboard thing and a few ports, isn’t an M1 iPad Pro basically the same hardware as an M1 MacBook ? It’s the same SoC, and therefore the same storage controller. They could be skimping on the actual flash memory for the iPad I guess, but I've not seen any indication anywhere it's not the same memory as a MacBook.
@oktawian@uliwitness I would certainly never suggest an iPad as a primary device for high-end video or audio editing, but they perform very well for what would have been considered moderate just a few years ago and high-end just a few years prior to that. However, I highly suspect that we have different backgrounds, experiences, and standards.
@oktawian@uliwitness I have spent the last year using a 2.2GHz dual-core i7 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM (soldered) as my primary workstation and it's not as bad as one might think. I do run a pretty light-weight OS (#OpenBSD) and X11 WM (#MLVWM), but the former isn't the most I/O optimized OS and even it's barely noticeable when it starts swapping. I always oversize SSD storage though, to delay failure through wear-leveling.
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