[warning26]

It really is -- my iPad has the same CPU as my Mac, and it highlights just how much iPadOS lets the hardware go to waste. MacOS is better in essentially every possible way -- faster, can run whatever you like, better multitasking.

[Kon-Peki]

This is a new development, and only on the most expensive versions. Historically, the iPad has always been running an iPhone-class processor.

I'd bet that Apple is still shipping 5x-10x as many A-series iPads as M-series iPads.

I'd love to be able to run a more capable OS on an M-series iPad, but not if that means all the rest have a worse experience. Maybe Apple needs to release an iPadOS Pro to go along with the M-series chips?