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Older iPads vs 8th gen base model
Although the new Pros and the 4th gen Air are all very enticing, I'm not sure I can currently justify their costs. I'm currently on a 6th gen base model and I'm looking at upgrading to something a bit better.
If I don't end up going the newer Air/Pro route, I'm currently weighing my options for new/used/refurbished units. I've looked at all the specs and numbers, but I'm really interested in people's actual real-world experiences.
- New 8th gen 128gb
- Air 3rd gen 256gb
- Pro 11 2nd gen 128gb
How have people been getting along with those in particular? I'm not looking to make it my main studio hub, or even replace my desktop. One thing I would like to be able to do is rock Drumcomputer in AUM with multiple FX without my iPad glitching out like nuts, which is currently a bit of a struggle.
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Of course there's multiple and then there's MULTIPLE and I can't know what it means for you. But that said I have been comparing an Air4 with the 8th gen base model, and a few AUM strips with multiple effects added worked flawlessly. Well I'm not a pro and it was not a scientific stress test, but I'm pretty impressed with the base model in general.
Dope. In all reality, the 6th gen struggles to use the multiout DC in AUM with even a half dozen fx before it starts to get jittery.
In terms of specs and numbers I assume all that matters in your case is the single core score so I am curious what the 9th gen iPad (maybe out in the fall?) will have to offer.
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
Yeah. I've been looking at all that info. Since my current iPad is my first, and my last iPhone was a 4, I have no real frame of reference for real world experience comparisons. I can get an 8th gen 128gb for $395, or a 4th gen 256gb Air for $670. Then, of course, I'd need a new case/screen protector, and in the case of the Air, the USBC CCK style jawn, so that adds another $70 or so.
I am going on my sixth iPad now and for me if a new potential contender model is coming out within four or five months I pretty much restrain myself and wait now as the rate of improvement seems pretty impressive these days and I would hate to have missed out on a jump. If the base model goes from 3-4 gigs of ram as some speculate, that would be a sweet tier to get in on.
Good point. When would they announce them? I'm so out of the Apple loop. Haha.
That bad boy tops out at iOS 5.1.1 I still have the OG model that I bought a week into them coming out. Battery life is still the same after years of heavy use. Too bad it doesn’t do too much more than run my TouchOSC templates.
Not sure about announcements but releases have looked like this...
Since there was no new base in March/April this year then maybe Sept/Oct this year? But then it could get bumped to next year? Hmmm
Hi @slicetwo. I recently got a iPad 8th gen 128gb to take the place of a 2017 iPad for music production. I notice a good improvement running music FX in AUM on the 8th gen. Doesn’t crackle out like my older iPad does. I wanted one of the higher end iPads, but having a lower budget I decided the 8th gen was the best bang for the buck. Really enjoying it. Using the new iPad for music, keeping the older one for other stuff.
Dav
Thank you!
@slicetwo I'm sort of in the same boat. looking a similar models. have you looked into the apple trade-in value for the 6th gen?
Nope cause my wife is taking it.
You think it would have caught on after 40 years of trying to make it a thing.
Haha. Unless you live in Philly, where everything is a jawn
You wouldn’t be from any other place using that word.
I think scrapple enjoyed more wide spread success than the word jawn.
Oh most definitely. That’s mainly because people didn’t understand “jawn”. An acceptable sentence is “Can you pass me that jawn on the jawn so I can open this jawn?”.
I grew up there. I’m well aware of the lingo. They know what it means, they just don’t use it cause 1) its rediculous and 2) no one wanted to be associated with philly. Myself included
Although I do admit there were some fun times, I can never go back. No matter where I go people hate me for being an Eagles fan.
And no one eats scrapple. I give it to people all the time. They love it. I just tell them is a flat sausage. Then for some reason, after the 10th time they’ve had it, you tell them it’s scrapple, they won’t touch it.
EDIT: To stay on topic, you want the 8th gen ( or the fastest processor possible). Life without a headphone jack isn’t as bad as everyone here makes it out to be.
Haha. You either love the area or you hate it. Both Philly and scrapple.
Anyways, yeah, I think the 8th gen jawn might be a good happy medium.
I ate scrapple for breakfast a lot circa early Nineties when I lived in Maryland. Good stuff! I've been to Philly a few times in the last couple years, and I work remotely with people in our Blue Bell office. I've never heard anyone use jawn that I know of.
Just say something casually in your next meeting. When you’re talking about your next project, say something like “yo, when we gonna start on that jawn?”