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The New iPad Pro Review (twitter.com)
An anonymous reader writes: As tech reviewers across the United States and Europe sing praises of Apple's new iPad Pro, here's what Joshua Topolsky, former editor-in-chief of The Verge and Engadget (and now with The Outline) had to say: "It [10.5-inch iPad Pro] is inferior to a laptop in almost every way, unless you like to draw. If you think you can replace you laptop with this setup: you cannot. Imagine a computer, but everything works worse than you expect. That is the new iPad. Now, I know the software is in beta, but I also know how Apple betas work. They don't massively change. I have no doubt it's a very powerful piece of hardware, and the screen is gorgeous. Garageband is a lot of fun to play with. But this doesn't COME CLOSE to replacing your laptop, even for simple things you do, like email. AND one other thing. Apple's keyboard cover is a fucking atrocity. A terrible piece of hardware. Awkward to use, poor as a cover. Okay in a pinch if you need something LIKE a keyboard. Anyhow good to know there are still Apple fanboys who get mad if you insult their products. But I don't think it's a very good product. Finally, iOS 11 is definitely a STEP in the right direction. But guys the iPad has been around forever and it still feels half-assed. I think a lot of people are willing to contort themselves around a bad UX because marketing is powerful."
It's not a laptop, it's a tablet and tablets are touch-based, keyboards are an afterthought and useful enough to type email on the go.
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Will it run linux?
If you think you can replace you [sic] laptop with this setup: you cannot. Imagine a computer, but everything works worse than you expect. That is the new iPad.
Okay so I was going to get all snarky about how, "duh, it's an iPad, what did you expect?" and then I saw Apple's marketing.
No matter the task, the new iPad Pro is up to it — and then some. It offers far more power than most PC laptops, yet is delightfully simple to use. The redesigned Retina display is as stunning to look at as it is to touch. And it all comes together with iOS, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. iPad Pro. Everything you want modern computing to be. Now even, well, better.
So kudos to someone previously associated with Engadget, of all places, to take Apple's marketing to task.
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A review that's complaining that an iPad Pro is a bad laptop makes as much sense as one complaining it's a bad smartphone. It is not a laptop. It is not a replacement for a laptop, it is intended as a companion to a Mac. It's the more portable thing that you use when you want to be able to quickly take notes or reply to emails, but don't want a full laptop. I have an older iPad Pro and previously had an ASUS TransformerPad: I actually use the iPad (the Android tablet mostly sat on a shelf) because it isn't trying to replace my laptop and feeling like an inadequate replacement, it's a device that I use when my laptop would be inconvenient.
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Tablets, laptops and desktops are all different. All with have their strengths and weaknesses. All are better for certain "tasks".
And by "task" that is not necessarily some function such as email, but a combination of the function and it frequency of use, the time per instance of use. For a relatively heavy business email environment a tablet may not be a good choice. However for a personal, low rate, short length type of use a tablet may be the better choice. Convenience outweighing a better keyboard, etc.
If I'm looking to use it to replace a laptop, sure, this review may be spot on. The review tweets seem to be written as that is the tablet's sole purpose.
Disregarding the absolutist blinders, it seems like a pretty powerful and useful tablet. As products go, it is the only Apple product that I have been tempted to buy.
I don't think I'm going to read Slashdot anymore either if the best it can produce is links to other people's rants. The only reason I'm here right now is because "slashdot.com" is one of the muscle memory URLs my hands type unconsciously when I'm trying to remember something else. Goodbye slashdot. See you the next time I have a brain fart.
wheres the review? all i saw was a twitter link. that summary is more than 140 chars. jesus.
Anyhow good to know there are still Apple fanboys who get mad if you insult their products.
As a non-Apple user, considering how TFS reads like a "stop liking things that I don't like" rant, I am not surprised that people got mad at you.
I did not know that! Now I don't feel so fucking crude!
So 7 years is a "forever" in his world? It took 9 years to get from the release of MSDOS to Windows 3.0.
Dude, if you want a laptop buy a laptop.
Sounds like what Mr president likes to do on twatter
Anti-apple product bashing such as this just simply won't work here on /. The formula to stick to is to link to an article that praises the worst piece of apple-crap ever as the most awe-inspiring and amazing gadget ever created. Then let the comments slag it off.
Oh, and we like an actual article to ignore, not just a mobile twitter link.
So it's for playing ports of Sierra adventure games or running some relatively lightweight music software and it's good for drawing according to the blurb.
So it's kind of like an Amiga 500 - if you only consume software floppies made by software editors, or like a game console.
Even I would rather have it than not, possibly. Don't like it? go make a linux tablet please.
Also I'm disappointed at '"TFA", it is a link to a microblog with no additional wanted content.
I just wish Apple would make a tablet that will run one of the professional music production platforms, like Pro Tools or even Logic Pro X. This is an area where the PC tablets and hybrids are light years ahead of Apple. Considering Apple was a pioneer in tools for artists, I'm surprised they haven't made this a priority.
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So . . . yeah. I normally don't give credence to style over content but would it kill him to put up a blog instead of a series of Tweets. Also as a former editor, you'd think he could get someone to let him pen an opinion piece or review on a tech site or something.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Tech editor rediscovers he is a tech editor and not Joe Blow. Requires actual laptop unlike most of the world. Writes review for the few other people on earth like himself. Film at 11.
I for one am completely shocked. /s
I currently have two of them, one for each hand
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This is true but irrelevant. A laptop still can't completely replace a desktop computer, which is why I still have a desktop, but for most people it is good enough. I was consulting when laptops and PDA became popular, and I spent a lot of time explaining what they could and could not do. It was important to keep it neutral because some people either had the money and desire to be first adopters, or the product could genuinely help them.
People are scared of change. We see this phones. In old TV shows you see a phone in a car that looks very similar to a home phone. The flip phone was scary. People made fun of the Star Tac and Razr with truly popularized the flip phone, not only because it sacrificed reception for size and style, but because it did not have a 'phone' form factor. Yet a generation later when the iPhone popularized the PDA flat form factor, everyone was complaining that it was not a flip phone.
I guess the /. editors no longer have the courage to call anything new 'lame' directly, so they have to have a reviewer do it.
Certainly many people buy tablets who can't use them. On the other hand, I know people who have laptops who do nothing but browse the web. And laptops are much more fragile
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Anyhow good to know there are still Apple fanboys who get mad if you insult their products.
First, a statement like this has no place in a technology review. Even if we were to assume this is true, it's a criticism of people, not the product.
Second, this just isn't a review. It's some guy's angry twitter rant.
Third, his complaints seem to be that the iPad isn't a laptop. And he's right. It's not a laptop. If you want a laptop, you should get a laptop.
Finally, his assessment is that iOS 11 is "a step in the right direction.
Given all of his complaining, I think the take-away here is strangely positive. It reminds me of a review that I read once that gave a Brooklyn restaurant zero stars, saying, "Although the food was really great, it was filled with a bunch of young hipsters, and I hate hipsters." -- to which I wanted to respond, "So you're saying food is great?"
Well this guy is saying that although it's a step in the right direction, he doesn't like working on tablets because he wants a good physical keyboard. -- to which I want to respond, "So you're saying it's an improvement over previous iPads? Like... for anyone who thought that previous iPads were pretty good, this one is even better?"
...i use both an ipad and a surface daily, six to eight hours apiece: the ipad is a great tablet which can get you by as a half-baked laptop in a pinch, and the surface is a great laptop which can get you by as a half-baked tablet in a pinch...they're both best-in-class products for their respective use cases, but their venn diagram overlap is a very narrow sliver indeed, despite growing with each generation... ...i've yet to experience any hardware/software configuration which excels in both modes of use...
Don't hold back now.
You of all people should know the RDF only has power over weak minds
sure, but twitter's "style" is actively antagonistic to content... :)
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A review that's complaining that an iPad Pro is a bad laptop makes as much sense as one complaining it's a bad smartphone. It is not a laptop. It is not a replacement for a laptop, it is intended as a companion to a Mac.
If the intent it to be a companion device then it is a failure from the word go. Honestly there is really nothing an iPad does adequately well currently that my iPhone doesn't handle which is why I haven't bought an iPad despite repeated hard looks at doing so. It COULD be useful for note taking and drawing but the software available for that to date sucks sour frog ass. They seem to think everyone who picks up one of their idiotically designed Apple Pencils is a graphic artist who spends their days sketching. I'm an engineer and I would LOVE a device I could take notes, make and share sketches, annotate documents, etc. Students should be able to take ALL their notes on an iPad. But Apple is making toy software that doesn't really do much that is useful for large market segments. The hardware has flaws but it's probably good enough IF the software wasn't so useless.
The iPad accessories are poorly designed afterthoughts. There is no place to store the Apple Pencil on/in the device. The Apple Pencil is round so it rolls off tables. The covers are terrible and the keyboards are mostly horrid. Sharing documents is clumsy and in useless formats. The iPad has no usable file system or decent organization system or robust ability to share documents between applications or people.
Basically Apple is treating the iPad like an overgrown iPhone without the phone and the software and hardware that could make it more than that is pretty much an afterthought. People keep buying them and they don't have anyone there visionary enough to make the device more than it currently is.
My favorite app is an alarm clock with an air raid siren that wakes me up at 4:30AM Monday through Friday. I don't need an iPad Pro to be an air raid siren.
It's a millennial rant because they didn't get what they wanted. Pajama boys are worse than fanboys.
If you wanted a laptop, then WHY DID YOU BUY A FUCKING TABLET YOU DOUCHEBAG?
So... a typical user then? Because let's be honest, probably 90% of computer users, on any platform, are in fact computer-idiots who need all the protection they can get.
Sadly, most of the major players seem to be far more interested in taking it as an opportunity to run a "protection" racket rather than try actually to fix their swiss-cheese "security"
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Funny, there are *tons* of reviews out there that just love the iPad Pro, saying it comes quite close to eliminating their laptop. It's funny because *this* one is the one that gets posted to /.
Besides, who said it is intended to be a laptop killer? Microsoft?
Given the way that I use electronics (and I suspect a lot of the IT professionals on Slashdot for whom "Pro" equipment would normally be marketed) the "one stupid tool" probably has a review more along the lines of what I need anyway.
The new Apple Macbook and Macbook Pro differences annoy me. I want the ports of the Macbook Pro, but I want a physical escape key like the Macbook. I've had enough late nights in server-rooms where I want both the ability to charge and the ability to use peripherals like console cables and ethernet cables where having a single port and an even more complex series of adapters is much more cumbersome, so the regular Macbook is flat-out out of the question, but the lack of real escape key that is as intuitive as the rest of the keyboard is also out of the question.
So this idea that a tablet could be a "Pro" machine is laughable when they can't even manage to keep their proper laptops "pro". When we talk about Apple starting to deviate from its generally reliable course as far as design goes, this is generally the kinds of things we're talking about. Perhaps we wouldn't have gotten multiple USB-C ports at all if Jobs hadn't died, but we probably also wouldn't have gotten the weird strip under the monitor in-lieu of the escape and function keys either.
I suppose I could try to get work to buy me an XPS-13 Developer Edition but they'd probably want to put Windows 10 on it in order to join it to the domain.
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The Tandy Model 100 was one of the last laptops with a decent keyboard, unfortunately. Anything since varies between god-awful and revolting.
Apple's advertising is clear that the iPad is different than a laptop. "It offers far more power than most PC laptops, yet is delightfully simple to use." -Apple. They are offering the iPad Pro as an alternative to a traditional laptop, and for many people, that's true. I wonder if the author would lambaste Google for offering ChromeBooks as laptops, as well. They can't do nearly what a traditional laptop can do, but look even more like one than an iPad. What about Windows 10S? How about an article instead of a screed? No, neither the iPad nor the ChromeBook are traditional laptops and thus both have different features that appeal to sometimes similar use/user cases. I have a workstation, laptop, iPad, and iPhone. They all serve different purposes, but have many overlapping functions. I can easily do many of the same functions as my laptop on my iPad, and I frequently carry only the iPad because it's incredibly powerful and more portable than my laptop. I can easily see how many, many users I know could get by with only an iPad in place of a laptop. It would actually make more sense for them for exactly the reasons that Apple states. It's much easier to use and maintain. My 93 year old grandmother and my kids starting at 3 years old have been able to use iPads with little assistance and monitoring only for content. Whereas neither could functionally use a laptop without tremendous effort on my part to show them how and then constant monitoring and maintenance to ensure that they kept running properly. If you need a full laptop, then buy one, otherwise don't be afraid to research your options and find the device that suits your individual needs and budget.
I said, "Pro Machine," not, "Tool."
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Bought it last weekend as a replacement of my fossilised ipad 2
Use case will mainly be typical tablet use, also for watching a movie while cycling in the gym. And on holidays I plan to be editing/finetuning my dslr pictures and possibly videos of the day on it. A glass of beer or wine while editing photos, yes that is holiday to me.
First impression is good actually. It won't replace my macbook but many daily activities work well on it. The screen is absolutely wonderful, the high refresh rate is noticeably smoother and the colours are great. It is obviously very quick on today's apps. The general use while the ipad is mounted standing on the keyboard cover is not ideal. I find the touch screen more ergonomic if it is lying flat.
I want the ports of the Macbook Pro, but I want a physical escape key like the Macbook.
FYI, you can still get a Macbook Pro with a physical ESC key.
but seriously, you already knew that the iPad "Pro" isn't for you. you and i and most of slashdot didn't "need" this "review" at all.
and, yes, Apple is going to the shitter. shame really; i have ubuntu on my desktop and am not looking forward to having that be my daily computing experience. but such is life.
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There is no need to when you're finger fucking Siri.
I want the ports of the Macbook Pro, but I want a physical escape key like the Macbook. I've had enough late nights in server-rooms where I want both the ability to charge and the ability to use peripherals like console cables and ethernet cables where having a single port and an even more complex series of adapters is much more cumbersome, so the regular Macbook is flat-out out of the question, but the lack of real escape key that is as intuitive as the rest of the keyboard is also out of the question.
For someone who's allegedly "had enough late nights in server-rooms", you sure don't read much tech-stuff.
Your prayers are answered. The first two models have TWO USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports (either port be used for charging), plus a Keyboard WITH AN ESCAPE KEY:
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy...
See, wasn't that simple?
Siri does that for me. Allows me to customise her look, and then we're off to bed
I want the ports of the Macbook Pro, but I want a physical escape key like the Macbook.
FYI, you can still get a Macbook Pro with a physical ESC key.
Or, if you have to have the touch bar MacBook Pro, just use the keyboard settings and remap the caps lock key to escape.
but seriously, you already knew that the iPad "Pro" isn't for you. you and i and most of slashdot didn't "need" this "review" at all.
and, yes, Apple is going to the shitter. shame really; i have ubuntu on my desktop and am not looking forward to having that be my daily computing experience. but such is life.
If you think Apple's products are going downhill, you aren't paying attention to where they are heading.
sure, but twitter's "style" is actively antagonistic to content... :)
And IQ points.
I have one of the new iPad pros (the 12.9 with the new hardware same as the new 10" but larger screen).
Common Sense
-It's not a laptop, expecting it to be one is starting from a false premise.
-Slashdot users are not a representative sample of the target audience for the product.
-For someone who has no computing electronics other than a phone, this would be able to take care of anything that common user would likely need in a laptop. email, browsing, word processor, spreadsheets, paying their bills online, etc.
The Good
-I have some visual issues, so bigger is literally better for me and that was part of my decision to purchase.
-It's big enough to read comics at full size without having to sit in front of my desktop. I can read books with less eye strain.
-The pen is amazing. The wife is a graphic artist and she is really loving it.
-We both enjoy coloring using Pigment. That's close to being the killer app for the pad/pencil for us.
The Not So Good
-It's biiiig. I'll retain my ipad Air for travel. not getting this out to use on a plane.
-Any game that forces you to use it in portrait mode makes you feel ridiculous, even when you are alone
The Wait and See
-iOS 11 has some interesting things coming.
-The new file manager is very interesting, and seeing how companies can work apps with that. Could completely change using dropbox with the pad.
- I'm still hoping for some more powerful photo editors for the ipad now that the hardware is improving. There's a bajillion of them out there but they all have like 20 features and 90% feature overlap between each one. We need something with 80% of photoshop, not another editor just like all the rest.
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There are other kinds of "pros" besides IT pros.
I don't care for tablets, but I can see their use for doctors or warehouse workers, etc.
Plus, "Pro" is a marketing term, don't take it so seriously.
I want the ports of the Macbook Pro, but I want a physical escape key like the Macbook.
FYI, you can still get a Macbook Pro with a physical ESC key.
But those only have TWO USB ports and nothing else. It's barely better then a Macbook.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
LOL ya right to the shitter.
Apple web pages and marketing brochures are NOT 'tech stuff'.
They can be incredibly successful financially while still making crappy hardware and software. Look at McDonald's*.
* didn't want to pick on them but they're known world-wide and we all understand the analogy.
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Going back to the Tablet PC days, the attachment of keyboard to what primarily are tablets has always seemed poorly done. The first Tablet PCs had tiny keyboards and were unbalanced. Surface and the iPad Pro have to be on a level surface.
There are some 2-in-1 tablet/laptop combos that do it better by treating the keyboard as an attachment that closes like a keyboard. It's also weighted better since tablets have lost a lot of mass.
No matter the task, the new iPad Pro is up to it -- and then some.
Even if the task is developing a new app? I doubt Apple plans to allow a counterpart to AIDE any time soon.
If you have room somewhere to set down the tablet and the keyboard, then you can probably easily carry the keyboard separately anyway.
Even if "room somewhere" is your lap while riding the bus?
Multitrack audio gets large fast - especially if you record in a higher sample rate
I can see the advantage of 24-bit sample depth for intermediate recordings. But what's the advantage of recording at more than 48 kHz sample rate? A 48 kHz sample can perfectly reconstruct signals up to just below 24 kHz, and the ear can't hear frequencies above 24 kHz. Why record what will just get filtered out?
Apple isnâ(TM)t the only company making keyboards for these. Logitech has 2 cases with Smart Connectors, the newer of which, the Slim Combo, is generally better on the 12.9â model and any bluetooth keyboard should work perfectly fine f-keys and all. Most programs donâ(TM)t use the ESC key or f-keys though. Mostly SSH programs and remote desktop programs. Personally had to map the screen for ESC for ease of use with SSH.
It can easily handle email, web and other every day tasks. There are plenty of apps that can fit various needs as well. I know everyone hates doggles, but with the USB 3 Camera adapter it can even use ethernet and usb keyboards.
iPads arenâ(TM)t going to be for everyone or every job nor should they. I would place Linux, *BSD, macOS, Android & Windows all under that same statement as well.
iOS 11 is a big change for the iPad and I hope various things will be changed for improved functionality through the beta process. Currently the first Public Beta is quite a bit rough around the edges, but the overall functionality is quite improved for multitasking. At a minimum, the old method of scrolling through apps for split screen is ridiculous when you have over 70 apps that support it. Dock is definitely a big improvement over that.
A 13 inch laptop.
"Pro".
How cute!
In a commercial or industrial setting I would not use a consumer-grade device. I'd buy the tablet-equivalent of a Panasonic Toughbook.
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sure i am. they're becoming a pure luxury lifestyle company. i can't blame them really, as it's easy money, but it does make their products less useful to me.
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HaHa your username is gay!
Lol his name. Would you really want that old cunt running this country?
Thank you. I couldn't figure out why the summary was so obsessively focused on how Budweiser doesn't taste as good as an average-quality stout, it's not as roasty as most stouts and if you look at it very carefully (I have many photographs! and numeric analysis of those photos!) you'll see that it's not very dark. It seems kind of light-bodied too. Where's the malt?!
Now I see: Apple is claiming it. If the review sounds stupid, it's because some retarded dimwit submitted their Light American Lager into the Stout category. The judges are going to have harsh things to say. People, enter your beer into the right category!
I'm sure this new iPad is fucking awesome at playing Clash of Clans. Just don't expect it to be as good at word processing as whatever-the-fuck piece-of-shit your secretary was using in 1987. That 1987 computer was a thousand times better at word processing as the iPad's best-case scenario.
i have ubuntu on my desktop and am not looking forward to having that be my daily computing experience. but such is life.
Get used to it. 2018 is poised to be the year of the Linux Desktop.
We have 3 tablets and they work great for what they do. The kids really can make some amazing things using our 9.7" iPad pro.
Seems overtly obvious that the iPad does not make a good laptop..... it is a tablet.
For the kinds of things we need a computer for we use a laptop.
But a tablet is ultra convenient for what it is great at.... art and content consumption.
Not sure why people keep trying to blame apple for a terrible laptop experience for their tablet.
Seems non-sensical.
A 13 inch laptop.
"Pro".
How cute!
Isn't it, though?
Just right for dragging around in a cramped server room!
sure i am. they're becoming a pure luxury lifestyle company. i can't blame them really, as it's easy money, but it does make their products less useful to me.
Yeah, an 18-Core Xeon-powered iMac with a 27" 5k Display, Radeon Pro Vega 64 GPU w/16 GB of HBM2 Memory, 128 GB ECC RAM, 4 TB SSD, and 4 USB-C/TB3 Ports, PLUS 4 USB 3.0 Ports, PLUS a 10GigE Port is a "fashion statement".
https://www.apple.com/imac-pro...
But, It does happen to be beautiful, too...
My wife loves it.
If you want a laptop, buy a f**ing laptop. What I wanted was a tablet, and could give a shit how bad some add-on keyboard is, if I wanted an add-on keyboard I would have bought a laptop. I didn't buy it to write long-winded word processing documents. I've had mine for a good 4 years now, and it's been great. I have a laptop too. If I had to choose between the tablet and laptop, I'd pick the tablet, as the laptop I've hardly used. When I want to do a lot of writing, I use my desktop, because a laptop also makes a crappy desktop-- I've got a split ergo keyboard for my desktop, the crappy laptop keyboard gives me carpal tunnel pain.
"As tech reviewers across the United States and Europe sing praises of Apple's new iPad Pro,we managed to find one stupid tool who doesn't like it so here is the REAL deal about the iPad Pro.
"Somebody doesn't like an Apple product?! That person must just be a stupid person then. Every Apple product is the best and everybody likes them and anybody that doesn't like them is stupid and wrong and a liar."
But I'll be damned if I'd ever consider replacing a laptop with an iPad. I know people who have, but their workflow is very very different to mine.
Personally as a geek / nerd, it's just not viable. So his review is a bit harsh, but from the laptop replacement perspective, can't say he's wrong.
I want the ports of the Macbook Pro, but I want a physical escape key like the Macbook.
FYI, you can still get a Macbook Pro with a physical ESC key.
Or, if you have to have the touch bar MacBook Pro, just use the keyboard settings and remap the caps lock key to escape.
But I would map the caps lock to ctrl, to be like my Happy Hacking keyboard.
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If you look at the iPad's history, you find it was something Steve Jobs basically dreamed up as his health was starting to fail and he was spending more time lying in hospital beds, or at least lying down, resting.
And that's pretty much exactly what the device was outstanding at doing .... providing a better experience for viewing or manipulating digital content when you're not sitting down.
Not only did it make a pretty good device to read your emails in bed at night, but it turns out it was pretty handy for doctors who have to work with and review data while standing up or walking around.
Ever since Tim Cook became CEO, the whole tone seems to have changed. He made public comments that he hardly uses a laptop computer anymore and seems to truly think tablets and touchscreens are the future of computing for a large segment of the population.
No matter how hard Apple pushes that idea though? Where I see iPads proliferating the most are at the opposite end of the spectrum. More and more, they're being implemented as single purpose control panels or kiosks. You can hang one on a conference room wall and integrate it with a calendar/scheduling system so everyone can book meetings with a couple of taps, or see when the room is going to be in use. It may even remote control the video-conference itself. These uses don't require a high end model though. Right now, all of these "Square registers" used in small stores and everything else are essentially re-purposing and extending the lives of all of the older iPads still in operation.
The high end iPad Pros have a niche for artists, certainly. But otherwise, they really only make sense as compliments to a full blown computer. When you know you won't need the power or full functionality of a notebook, you can bring the iPad instead.
It might actually. Last time I looked at Apple's website it wasn't exactly clear what models were new-generation and what were old-generation, and since at times Apple has offered both I would hate to spend that kind of money without getting some of the advanced features.
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Not sure what the snark is for; I consider myself a professional (embedded hw design, software development, etc.) and have been using an 11" Air as my daily use machine since 2012. Yes, the one with the 1280x800 screen (no retina available).
I did put the i7 and 8GB on it, and even as I type this I've got a Win7 VM running CCES doing Analog Devices DSP work going and Nordic nRF51822 development under OSX in a shell.
You don't need a 15" or 17" screen to use a computer, although I do agree more pixels would be nice in those 11". 16GB of RAM would be nice too, but neither the retina screen nor the 16GB are *needed*. I do quite well on this thing.
... and this cranky, inflammatory, self-centered rant is not anything That Matters.
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It's "beautiful" (personally, I think it looks like a toy) at the expensive of modularity, upgradeability and repairability. If any one single component goes bad, say a RAM chip, the SSD, the GPU or the screen, you have to toss the whole thing and buy another. With a properly designed desktop or laptop PC, I can just swap parts in and out.
Must be weird to feel personal affront and hurt at a negative product review for a company you own no stake in. Sad, and weird.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I want the ports of the Macbook Pro, but I want a physical escape key like the Macbook.
I already knew they had the courage to get rid of most of the USB ports. But the ESC key? LOL.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Oh look it's the guy who will praise Apple products literally no matter what. You have credibility in this area.
i have ubuntu on my desktop and am not looking forward to having that be my daily computing experience. but such is life.
Get used to it. 2018 is poised to be the year of the Linux Desktop.
Just like every of the 30 years before it.
It might actually. Last time I looked at Apple's website it wasn't exactly clear what models were new-generation and what were old-generation, and since at times Apple has offered both I would hate to spend that kind of money without getting some of the advanced features.
If you can't tell the difference between new-generation and old-generation models while looking at the tech specs, you have no business calling yourself a pro
I have a 10.5 and this idiot doesnâ(TM)t know shit. I can do everything and more on my iPad than a computer. Never visit this site again!
We use iPads in the cockpit of our aircraft and we need retina display is because you're low resolution displays do not have enough pixels to make small text on approach diagrams readable. Even though the iPad is not a industrially hardened device, it works really well in aircraft. Incidentally, we use iPads because they just work. What airline such as Delta had tried using Windows tablets but the operating system and The way it interfaces with the hardware promotes extreme unreliability.
It might actually. Last time I looked at Apple's website it wasn't exactly clear what models were new-generation and what were old-generation, and since at times Apple has offered both I would hate to spend that kind of money without getting some of the advanced features.
All of the models on that page were 2016. Easy way to tell: If it has more than one USB-C port, it MUST be a 2016 MacBook Pro.
Apple doesn't care about professionals. The "pro" designation just means "more expensive". You've been confused over the years by the availability of said capacity on these devices -- you thought those were there because Apple identified that professionals use them. You thought it was designed for you. "Pro" is just a term that Apple applies to devices and software they market towards their more wealthy and less discriminating customers.
It was only a matter of time before they realized that their target demographic (people who sit in Starbucks listening to iTunes on an MBP while tweeting) didn't need any of that confusing connectivity. They've never connected anything to their computer apart from headphones and a charging cable.
It's "beautiful" (personally, I think it looks like a toy) at the expensive of modularity, upgradeability and repairability. If any one single component goes bad, say a RAM chip, the SSD, the GPU or the screen, you have to toss the whole thing and buy another. With a properly designed desktop or laptop PC, I can just swap parts in and out.
But, now you're switching arguments from "just a luxury item" (all form and no substance), to completely different criteria. Nice try.
RAM is (still) easily upgradeable in iMacs. As is the mass-storage (although not as easily).. I assume it will be so in the iMac Pro, too.
And 99% of laptops these days, no matter the brand, are no more repairable for the average person than your TV's Remote Control.
So, it sounds like you would be more of a customer for the upcoming "modular" Mac Pro. No one knows exactly what "modular" means, but "upgradability" (which brings along with it, "repairability") of things like the CPU, GPU, SSD, RAM, etc. were specifically mentioned.
https://www.cultofmac.com/4747...
Now, whether that means that the "modular" Mac Pro simply ends up being Apple's 21st century's "take" on a Tower PC remains to be seen....