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Samsung tab s7 photo editing

Started Aug 24, 2021 | Discussions thread
Ken Gosden Veteran Member • Posts: 3,025
Re: Samsung tab s7 photo editing

pete helme wrote:

Ken Gosden wrote:

I have found that the battery life of the iPad has been highly variable. Each OS update seems to cause substantial differences, sometimes better, sufferings worse. IOS seems to do better at holding a charge when the device is in sleep mode. In use it seems to run down slightly faster. This might not be a fair comparison since my iPad is about a year older than my Tab S7+. My older Tab S6 seems to run down about the same rate as my iPad Pro. I also have a newer iPad Air that I use for work. That one seems slightly better on battery life than the older Pro. I would be interested to see how the new M1 based iPads fair.

I had been look at upgrading the 10.5 iPad Pro to one of the 11 Pro variants, but the fact that Apple hamstrings them with only 4GB of RAM I find troubling. They are just starting to move beyond that now (the 6GB 1TB iPad 11 Pro being the exception) and allowing app's to haveaccess to more RAM with iPad OS 15 (though Lightroom seems to behave OK with what they are given currently).

the Samsung S7's come with 8 GB and Android doesn't limit the app space in the same way so there is more room for growth. that's why I'm tempted to go that route for a while instead. Adobe seems to be better these days with keeping Android more on par with app features on the two platforms.

so you would say you're getting similar battery life with the S7+ and the iPads?

Since I do not use my work iPad for the same types of tasks as my personal S7+ it's a little difficult to be definitive.  However, based on a day of heavy usage of each I think they are not far apart.  My iPad Air is mostly used for Teams meetings via WiFi.  On days where I have 4-5 solid hours of meetings I see it drop down below 30% battery.  A full day of use on my S7+ rarely sees it fall below 30%, but that might be lots of web browsing, some light photo editing in Snapseed and maybe a little bit of video consumption via the web.  It is rare that I spend a lot of time running Lightroom.  That happens mainly when I am traveling.  I do suspect that the new M1 based iPads would do much better.  The goal on that chipset was performance at the lowest power consumption.

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