Comparing apples to stars: the iPad Pro 13-inch with the StarLabs Lite tablet.
* Dimensions: almost the same.
* Weight: iPad 0.5 kg vs Lite 0.9 kg (2x! Why so much heavier?)
* Battery: same, both have a 38 W lithium-polymer.
* CPU: M5 10-core vs Intel N350 8 core, but benchmarks are dramatically different:
- iPad: Multithread Rating of 28,370 and Single Thread Rating of 5,959.
- Lite: Multithread Rating 7,336 and Single Thread Rating 1,938.
* CPU power use (typical TDP): 28 W vs 7 W (!). 4x less for the Lite.
* RAM: iPad 12 GB vs Lite 16 GB. Why does the iPad have so little RAM?
* NVMe: both 2 TB.
* ports: iPad has essentially none (why?) whereas the Lite has 2 USB-c and 1 mini-HDMI port.
* microSD card: none for iPad, yes for Lite.
* cameras: both have front and back; iPad 12 MP, Lite 5 MP rear and 2 MP front.
* repairable, upgradable: not really for the iPad, yes for the Lite (but then it's not waterproof).
* price: iPad £2,500 vs Lite £900 at these specs and dimensions.
Plus the Lite runs Ubuntu 24.04 excellently, with a long battery life (it really is well over 10 hours with the Power Mode "balanced, presumably more with the "saver"), with Xournalpp for handwriting notes with a stylus and annotating PDFs (and Firefox and Evince for also editing PDFs), Write (had to compile it) for handwriting, Inkscape, Krita, GIMP. Runs Blender well, surprisingly (I hear Blender finally runs on iPads too), and I get a full, proper computer with which I can do just about anything.
Chapeau, @starlabssystems
By the way your keyboard is better than the FrameWork laptop's. Now if only the hinge was strong rather than floppy, would enable safer use of the Lite as a laptop.