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The new iPad Pro and Air are nice, but I haven’t seen anything that makes me want to throw away my old Air (A15) and get a new M2 model, let alone the Pro. They look great for high-end creators, but for a bit of web surfing and managing my home, the old Air is still more than capable for me.
I agree with Doc. Rock, Apple (and others) have been doing meaningful and useful things with AI for years. I’ve played around with generative AI, but I have yet to see anywhere in my working or private life, where it could make a significant difference - especially the hallucinations that they all seem to suffer means that even if I use the AI for something, I have to double and triple check the output is correct, which defeats the purpose, it is quicker to do the research myself and cut out the bit of getting the AI to generate a result, before I do the research…
For something like @Leo 's Lisp and Emacs apps, that makes some sense, but I don’t have anything, currently, like that, where it would make sense. I don’t need to create music, pictures or video, so I don’t need an AI to do that for me.
I do take a lot of pictures, so an AI that can help clean up the images is something practical and useful and far more interesting than a hallucinating LLM.
I once asked Copilot to give me the text to the children’s song “Mattemännken”, it has 2 verses, Copilot gave me 4 pages of complete gobbledygook.
Sounds like you were never the target audience for the Pro which is fine. I think that a lot of the criticism regarding the Pro comes from reviewers who never were the target audience. I for one am looking forward to the upgrade.
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I just pasted the first part into Copilot (free, not Pro), and this is what I got:
Certainly! The children’s song “Mattemännken” is a traditional song in some regions, particularly in Bramsche, which is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It’s a delightful mix of St. Martin and Halloween. The children dress up, go from house to house, and sing the following verses in Plattdeutsch (Low German):
Mattemännken goue man,
die uns alle watt gieven kann,
Äppel oder Biernen,
Nüsse sind vergieven.
Aule Stadt, nigge Stadt, liebe Jungfrau,
giev uns watt.
Lass uns nicht zu lange stehen,
denn wir wolln noch n bisken weitergehn.
Bis nach Bremen da wolln wa uns n bisken wärmen,
bis in die Aulestadt da stecken se uns all tohaup in Sack.
In English, it roughly translates to:
“Mattemännken, good man,
who can give us something,
apples or pears,
nuts are forgiven.
Old town, new town, dear lady,
give us something.
Let’s not linger too long,
because we want to keep going.
We’ll warm up a bit in Bremen,
in the old town, they’ll put us all together in a sack.”
Does this look accurate, @big_D ?
Yes, that is what I taught it, after it came up with the gobbeldygook, it took about half an hour to get it to understand the correct verses.
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I agree, Joe. I think it’s close to the perfect photographer’s device.
Like you I shoot with Leica. The Leica FOTOs app on iOS/iPadOS imports from the camera wirelessly: JPEG and/or DNG raw. It integrates seamlessly with Apple Photos which is a perfectly fine DAM system. It syncs with iCloud (so you have to make sure you have enough storage there) and allows me to edit Originals on any Apple platform while only storing thumbnails. I use Darkroom+ on iOS/iPadOS/macOS for post, but iPadOS has many great tools. This has completely replaced my Lightroom and Capture One workflows.
The OLED display on the new iPads should make it a good choice for this, and having touch really speeds up the process. My old M2 ipad Pro is more than fast enough for the 60MB raw files, true. But I want to go all in on this workflow and the new iPad Pro is the perfect companion.
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I would LOVE to do the same. The only thing stopping me is the fact that I can’t take my Lightroom presets with me to Darkroom.
The translation leaves a bit to be desired. I’m assuming it was the AI that did the translation, I don’t want to insult you, if you did the translation by hand, but it reads like a typical AI translation of German into English or vice versa. Google always had a problem getting translate to work reliably between the two languages and the results usually ranged from tragically funny to downright dangerous.
Given my assumption is correct (and my deepest appologies, if I am wrong), it looks like Copilot isn’t much better.
Martin’s boy, good man,
who can give us something?
Apples or pears,
nuts are also acceptable.
Old town, new town, dear maid,
give us something.
Don’t make us hang around too long,
because we want to keep going,
On towards Bremen, there we will warm ourselves,
All the way to the old town, where they will put us in a sack!
Here, in Bramsche, we celebrate St. Martin’s Day on 11th November, instead of All Hallows’ Eve. Here, the children dress up, traditionally as St. Martin, but these days nearly any costume will do, some even wear Halloween like costumes.
They knock on the door and sing the song and receive a treat for their efforts. Ignoring the religious overtones, I find it a wonderful festival and it always brings a smile to my face, when they knock and start signing, when I open the door.
Last year, there were a bunch of girls, I guess 10 - 12 years old, about the oldest I’ve seen doing this, unless they are accompanying a group of younger children, they sang the song as fast as they could, rattling the lyrics off in less than half the time that it usually takes. That sounds bad, and it could have been, but they all kept in sync, the harmony was kept and it was actually very well done and funny. I laughed and clapped and gave them their candy.
In January we also have “heilige drei Könige” (the 3 wise men, or Epiphany in English) on 6th January, here the children dress up as the wise men and come door to door and sing a song and write in “blessed” chalk on the door C + M + B (Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar) plus the year, often in Roman numerals, and receive a token of appreciation for their efforts. It is supposed to bring good luck for the coming year.
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No, I am the target audience for the Air, but my current Air (A15 model) is still more than quick enough for what I need it to do, which was the point I was trying to make. I’d love a Pro or the new Air M2, but I don’t use it enough and the current one is more than good enough, to justify spending money on a new one.