Ipad Air 5th Gen M1 Hardware properties compared to Intel i5-7200U CPU

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Arman777
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Hey all,

I want to buy Ipad Air 5th Gen Tablet. Currently My computer has this specs:

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CPU(s):                  4
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
Vendor ID:               GenuineIntel
  Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
    CPU family:          6
    Model:               142
    Thread(s) per core:  2
    Core(s) per socket:  2
    Socket(s):           1
    Stepping:            9
    CPU max MHz:         3100.0000
    CPU min MHz:         400.0000
    BogoMIPS:            5399.81
Caches (sum of all):    
  L1d:                   64 KiB (2 instances)
  L1i:                   64 KiB (2 instances)
  L2:                    512 KiB (2 instances)
  L3:                    3 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:                  
  NUMA node(s):          1
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-3

from this site https://www.apple.com/ipad-air/specs/ there's some specs given for M1 chip but I don't see much about detail. Can someone point on these informations for ipad air 5.th gen's M1 chip ? I have found out this site but I am not sure every M1 chip is the same or not ?
https://cpufun.substack.com/p/more-m1-fun-hardware-information?s=r

It seems like with M1 I am buying an really powerful tablet (kind of a computer actually) which is much much powerful than my computer. Also is it easy to code in Ipad (such as python). I also kind of want to use it as laptop.

Thanks
 
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It is pointless comparing numbers of cores and clock rates between a RISC processor like an M1 with a modern CISC processor like an i5; the latter's performance comes from pipelining and cacheing optimizations that do not show up in these figures.

There are a few options for coding in Python on an iPad but each has compromises and I wouldn't call any of them "easy". For most other languages your only option is to connect to a (remote or local) server and use your iPad as a really expensive dumb terminal.

For "use as a laptop" it depends what you use your laptop for. Apart from coding I use mine mainly for spreadsheets and games: both are useless on an iPad.
 
pbuk said:
It is pointless comparing numbers of cores and clock rates between a RISC processor like an M1 with a modern CISC processor like an i5; the latter's performance comes from pipelining and cacheing optimizations that do not show up in these figures.
Oh I see I was not aware of that processor types...
pbuk said:
There are a few options for coding in Python on an iPad but each has compromises and I wouldn't call any of them "easy". For most other languages your only option is to connect to a (remote or local) server and use your iPad as a really expensive dumb terminal.
I have heard google colab..but ofc coding is not necessary...
pbuk said:
For "use as a laptop" it depends what you use your laptop for. Apart from coding I use mine mainly for spreadsheets and games: both are useless on an iPad.
I wlll mainy use for note-taking, reading pdfs etc...I guess I don't need M1 for that..
 
Arman777 said:
I wlll mainy use for note-taking, reading pdfs etc...I guess I don't need M1 for that..
An iPad is great for that - it's what I use my ancient iPad Air 2 for.