New iPad Pro: Faster than Personal Computers?

Apple unveiled its new iPad Pro at the launch event for its new products, claiming that with its new A12X processor, this product is faster than over 92% of laptops. But is this claim accurate? The new iPad Pro has become very similar to Microsoft's Surface Pro. Microsoft initiated the idea of hybrid tablets that could replace laptops. However, despite several years passing since this new approach, apart from the high-end Surface Pro products which are very expensive, new hybrid tablets have not been able to effectively replace personal computers, especially laptops. One reason is the weak processors of these devices and several other major flaws. Before addressing these flaws and distinguishing reality from advertisement, it is better to take a look at the new iPad Pro. This product is available in two versions: 11 and 12.9 inches, and its design has transformed to be flatter, eliminating the unnecessary curvature of the iPads' edges. This feature allows the iPad Pro's pencil to magnetically attach to the side of the device and charge. This method resolves one of the main issues of the iPad Pro. Additionally, just like the new iPhones, the bezels have been reduced, and with the use of facial recognition technology, the home button and fingerprint sensor have been removed. As a result, this product has 25% less volume compared to the previous model. The thickness of this device is 5.9 mm. Apple claims that the new iPad Pros can work for up to 10 hours on a single charge. If this claim is accurate, there remains one issue: the very slow charging speed of these devices. This device no longer uses the Lightning port and instead utilizes USB-C, allowing large displays to be connected to this tablet. The new iPad Pro uses a 7-nanometer A12X Bionic processor. This processor, with 10 billion transistors and eight cores for data processing and seven cores for graphics processing, as Apple claims, is capable of performing 5 trillion calculations. Apple claims that this product, with this processor, is faster than 92% of computers worldwide. However, this claim can be doubted because if it were true, the company would use this processor in its laptops instead of Intel processors, which are accompanied by AMD graphics processors in stronger models. Meanwhile, for heavy engineering or graphic tasks, Windows computers with strong hardware still outperform Apple computers, all of which use Intel or AMD processors. Another issue with Apple's new product as a replacement for laptops is its cooling problem during heavy processing, which causes battery consumption to peak, and a tablet that takes several hours to charge can run out of charge in less than two hours. Another significant problem is the iOS operating system, which is practically developed for mobile devices and has very few professional software applications that can run on it. Apple has stated that Adobe will fully release a special version of Photoshop for this product. This might make it a suitable replacement for some photographers, although for journalists, students, or pupils, if the activities are limited to light tasks like using Office software, this system could serve as a laptop replacement. The price of this product starts at $800 for the weakest model with 64 GB of internal memory, which is less than most flagship mobile phones. At the new product launch event, Apple updated the Mac Mini after years. This product supports 64 GB of RAM and uses an eighth-generation Intel processor, which may be suitable for some Apple product fans looking for an efficient yet small and lightweight product. This product has 2 TB of internal storage and uses the T2 security chip. Apple claims that the cooling system is now twice as effective as before. However, do not expect a reasonable price from this system, as this product in the base model with a very weak Core i3 processor, 8 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of internal storage is priced at $800. Many believed that with the introduction of the thin and lightweight 13-inch MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs would be forgotten, but the company has also introduced the new generation of MacBook Airs. This product weighs about 1250 grams with a 13.3-inch display. This laptop uses a weak dual-core Intel Core i5 processor with a base frequency of 1.6 GHz. The base price of the product with only 8 GB of RAM starts at $1200.