Lots of silence here for the M5 Apple Silicon debut on iPad Pros a couple days ago. Understandable. It’s just a small spec bump, though the neural engine got improved more substantially, for those who care.**

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The latest iPad Pro strikes a healthy balance between power and portability for most users.

Still, it’s baby steps toward something of the MacPad a lot of users dream of (and others seem to be revolted by). Had they come out with iPadOS 26 at the time of the M1 release people would be jumping up and down and screaming “take my money!”. It’s like the frog slowly getting boiled in water without noticing it’s getting cooked.

No, I don’t think it’s going to be a “true” MacPad any time soon, if ever. Software vendors need to get fully on board, for one thing. Many seem to want to continue with a “lite” version on iPads and relegate the “Pro”, fully functional and higher priced versions on Macs even…

Now that Qualcomm showed their hand, so too now has Intel (well more of the hand anyway)

Certainly these will be the intel chips in the next "Intel for Business" models of Surface, as well as other devices like the next Galaxy Book 360 (which ever GB model has the s-pen)

I suspect thin and light devices like the Galaxy Book and Surface Pro/Laptops will likely opt for the 8c/4Xe CPU.

However the last one I find more interesting. Where as the middle 16c/4Xe is designed for systems that would utilize a Discrete GPU (Laptop Studio 3?), the 16c/12Xe is designed for use cases that want a powerful chip, but a more robust integrated graphic solution over discrete graphics. It kind of seems more poised to combat the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. Kind of curious how the 16/12 Panther Lake Chip would bench compared to the X2 Extreme.

So the other week, Qualcomm unveiled some of the newer Snapdragon Chips that will be releasing in 2026. And given Microsoft has gone all in on Snapdragon (in retail anyway) the next gen of Surfaces are likely going to be rocking these chips.

So I'd imagine they'll just have Surface Pro 12's and Surface Laptop 8's using the X2 Elite chips with probably the same form factor/designs.

But the extreme chips intrigues me. As Microsoft has killed off the Laptop Studio 2, if they were to release a new performance device to follow up the Book/Studio lines, this would likely be it. Although the very minor bump in graphics does concern me a bit. Graphics were the weakpoint of the 1st gen Elites, and the "2x" better Adreno integrated graphics is really the same bump the Intel Arc Graphics in Intels Lunar Lake was able to deliver. They seem…

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During IFA 2025, Lenovo announced the launch of two new Android tablets: the Yoga Tab and the Idea Tab Plus.

captivating device with attractive pricing... anyone remember what pen tech Lenovo uses for their Tab Pens?