Tested: Why the iPad Pro really isn't as fast a laptop
Stop the presses. The PC is dead, and so is the Mac. Killed by the more powerful iPad Pro. At least that’s what some tech writers proclaimed after Apple’s latest iPad Pro wonder hit the streets.
But is the iPad Pro really a PC killer? After days of poking and prodding, I can safely say Hell no. Far from it.
Before this turns into a flame-fest, let me say this: The iPad Pro is shockingly fast, and Apple has again worked its mastery of hardware, software and virtually unlimited resources to build an amazingly fast chip for the iPad Pro. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. My battery of tests shows that in some things, it ain’t that fast.
How we got here
What started the “Intel and its CPUs are doomed” talk were benchmarks showing the A9X SoC in the iPad Pro overpowering Intel’s older Haswell chips and even its newest Skylake CPUs.
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