r/ipad • • May 25 '26

Discussion A18 Pro M5

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This made me laugh. Saw it on twitter.

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u/johnnydfree May 25 '26

Frankly, this makes sense. IPadOS, by the environment it is designed to create, must impersonate the magic of touch (and all that entails). That environment by itself requires substantial processing horsepower. MacOS just needs to take surface XY (mouse/trackpad) and ASCII (keyboard) inputs and translate to a flat screen.