Ondrej Holzman "The iPad Pro will be a replacement for a laptop or a desktop computer for many people," Apple CEO Tim Cook said of the latest product, which went on sale a week ago. And indeed – many users will no longer reach for the iPad Pro as an addition to their computer, but as a replacement for it. The price, performance and possibilities of use correspond to it.
With the iPad Pro, Apple entered relatively uncharted territory for it (as well as for most others). While previous iPads were really just tablets that usually served as a supplement to more powerful computers, the iPad Pro has – especially in the future – ambitions to replace these machines. After all, Steve Jobs predicted this development years ago.
The iPad Pro needs to be approached as the first generation, which it is. It's not a full-fledged computer replacement yet, but Apple has laid a good foundation to get to that point one day. After all, even the first review speaks of positive experiences in this direction, it just takes time.
The iPad Pro must be thought of differently than the iPad Air or mini. The almost 13-inch iPad goes into battle against others, against all MacBooks (and other laptops).
In terms of price, it easily matches the latest MacBook, and with the accessories that will be mostly necessary, even the well-trodden MacBook Pro. Laptops mentioned in terms of performance often stick in your pocket and can already compete with the possibilities of use - which is often the most important part in the debate about whether it is a tablet or a computer. Moreover, it can be assumed that it will only get better with time.
"I quickly realized that the iPad Pro could easily replace my laptop for more than 90 percent of the things I need on a daily basis," writes in his review, Ben Bajarin, who would need to return to the computer practically only for spreadsheets.
The creation of advanced spreadsheets is one of the things that is not yet optimal even on the large iPad Pro. However, even skeptics who did not believe in the productivity of iPads, the largest apple tablet opened a new perspective on the matter. "After a few days with the iPad Pro, I started looking at it differently. The big tablet asked for it itself.” she wrote in her review, Laureen Goode, who has never understood how some people can work on an iPad for days without needing a computer.
“After the third day with the iPad Pro, I started asking myself: can this replace my MacBook?” That hasn't happened yet for Goode, but she admits that now with the iPad Pro, she would have to make far fewer sacrifices than she expected.
The same goes for the latest iPad she expressed also graphic designer Carrie Ruby, who "wouldn't be surprised if one day I trade in my MacBook Pro for something like an iPad Pro." Ruby hasn't reached that point yet either, but just the fact that people who have spent the vast majority of their time on a laptop are even considering making the switch is good for Apple.
Graphic artists, animators, designers, and creatives of all kinds are already excited about the iPad Pro. This is thanks to the unique Pencil pen, which according to many is the best on the market. Not the iPad Pro as such, but the Apple Pencil itself is the so-called "killer feature", pushing its use to a new and meaningful level.
Without a pencil, and also without a keyboard, the iPad Pro is practically just a large iPad for now, and it is a huge problem for Apple that it is not yet able to supply either a Pencil or a Smart Keyboard. In the future, however, the iPad Pro should definitely open up to a much wider audience. We can expect significant news in iOS 10, because the current operating system limits it in many ways. Not much was possible on smaller displays and especially less powerful machines, but the iPad Pro opens up completely new possibilities.
These are new possibilities for Apple, for developers and for users. Many may be forced to change their approach, but just as "desktop" users will be looking for a while in the mobile environment and on the big screen, so must developers. It is no longer enough to expand the application to a larger screen, the iPad Pro needs more care, and developers are now, for example, considering whether to still develop a mobile-type application or a well-trodden software without compromises that the iPad Pro can handle.
But many users are already reporting that they are experimenting and putting away their MacBooks, without which they couldn't imagine life until yesterday, and trying to work differently. And I can imagine that the iPad Pro in the menu can confuse even ordinary, usually undemanding consumers, because if you just browse the web, watch movies, communicate with friends and write for a living, do you really need a computer?
We're not there yet, but the moment when many can only get by with a tablet (which may no longer be accurately labeled as tablets), is apparently inevitably approaching. The real post-PC era will certainly come to mind for many.
so close? don't buy, maybe one day when there is no ios...so why not mac and why ipad pro?
I think it's stupid. Resp. it probably makes sense if you have a stylish computer (imac, mac pro) and a macbook with it. But especially here, where people have laptops as their main computers, it doesn't make sense.
There you go. In the end, I can make do with an Apple Watch, an iPhone Plus and a MacBook 13 with an external display.
I don't have time for the iPad. it would be at home for consumption, where I can do it at a plus, I don't take public transport either, I don't have time for it. I have a macbook for everything else.
we'll see what iOS 10 and maybe the developers if they port the app from OSX to iOS. until then, the iPad Pro is just a big toy or narrowly focused for users who need an apple pencil
Apple created a tablet era that is slowly coming to an end. The iPad tries to get closer to the PC, but it's still full of compromises. Of course, a lot of people have enough for both work and fun. Rather, a new era is being created by Microsoft with Surface and other manufacturers with 2-in-1 tablets, on which the ipad is the story.
Unfortunately, it seems that way. And win10, although it's still a juggernaut. it is still not user friendly to the touch, but it can be done. The iPad Pro is a work in progress that does not yet have iOS support and does not yet have a professional app. It will probably work, but it will take some time. Here the question is whether to let it go like this in the semi-finished product or to even tighten it first. It seems to me that apple no longer makes devices that show you that you need and want it, but devices that test how users will start using it and instead of what, and then adapt it.
Personally, I would very much like to switch from a MacBook pro to an iPad pro. iOS suits me better, it's more compact, more convenient, etc., but there are several problems - there is no support for RAWs, which I work with daily, and final cut pro is not available, nor is there a similar equivalent in the form of Premiere... Another thing is that even 128Gb is simply not enough for all files. They especially took into account the inability of ios to work with external drives. Personally, I have an almost full 512GB disk and 2tr on an external drive... Otherwise, I agree that this is a promising future
so let's break it down, a bit rough. if ipad pro knew what macbook does, it would have an identical system. It would be enough for the zero screen to be visually identical to IOS, which would maintain the experience of the iPad. And there somewhere we come across a problem that many people have with the iPad Pro. This new ipad just doesn't have a proper ios. I will only argue: it would be more successful if it were possible to install OSX on the ipad pro, which would make both the applications we need and all the peripherals work. Yes, the Air would probably suffer from this, but this is how the Ipad PRO and the user suffered from it.
but apple can't give you osX on the ipad, because osX is not adapted for touch control, just like most applications for it. and they repeatedly said that the iPen should not be used to control the ipad pro, but to control the content
after all, there is still no touch screen on the macbook, because they know that it is beyond their power to get it there
microsoft had a problem with this to allow a usable touch and even a mouse/touchpad/trackpoint to control their OS
God forbid they don't put touch control in there and they won't try it. I have to agree with Cook here that this combination is and will be a hit. For example, the adaptation of Office applications for touch control brought so many unpleasant and irreparable compromises in the user interface that working with Office 2013 is simply a punishment, and in so many ways that if I have the slightest chance to escape from it for good, I will do it. Simply voluntarily abandoning ergonomics optimized for text peckers and similar keyboard users on keyboard machines is a downright misguided idea.
I would like to have on the iPad for 2 systems. IOS and OSX. IOS with touch control and OSX controlled by mac accessories. Magic mouse, etc. I could just choose what suits me better at that moment.
and that's exactly what I meant
to KK: it is not adapted today, it may be tomorrow, they proudly announce that they have the same base..., I don't want a touch mac but an osx on an ipad, in fact I will switch to another interface and use a peripheral. maybe for you non-users, but I can see from the discussion that I would not be the only one who would immediately jump after him
toJJ: but the touch control is already there, it's the ipad! it would really solve the problem with office when even a person with an ipad pro would pull out peripherals such as a keyboard and mouse and work fully. paradoxically, it would also benefit you to have osx on your ipad and not the other way around. You admitted the idea of having a touchscreen macbook, but no one talked about it, I'm talking about an ipad that I can use both classically and after connecting peripherals as a desktop.
A lot of water will still flow before Apple steps up to this "freedom of choice" of systems. See, for example, connecting USB peripherals. Although he tells us that he is doing it for our good, we here have to pay dearly for this good, with several times more expensive solutions.
The only thing that will make them will be the stagnation of the Ipad tablet market, maybe even the ipad pro can sign on to it.
Then there is the surface for you, this is not the philosophy of IOS or OS X.
No, it's not iOS incompetence, it's your ignorance.
Yesterday I drove through Prague, so I stopped in Chodov to look at the iPad Pro. And really - nothing to wow me - the home screen is an incredible waste of space - couldn't Apple put more icons on there? Then, on the way in the car, I thought about what I would personally use it for. Internet, e-mails and social networks can easily be handled by my current iPad2. Another basic job is to download photos from the camera at home, and lo and behold – there is a problem. I can get photos to the NTB using a card reader or via USB, but how would I get photos to the iPad Pro if it doesn't have USB?
So, from my point of view, I have no use for the iPad Pro, and NTB could not replace me.
There is a reduction for reading SD cards for the iPad, so photos can be uploaded to the iPad.
Sure, but I have to solve other reductions and drag them everywhere.
And how do you drag photos from the camera to NTB? Just a thought, or do you need something for that too?
Just insert the SD card and that's it ;)
Yes, in some cases. :-) If you have an NTB with an SD card slot and if you use SD cards in the camera. Otherwise, you solve it again with some reduction or reader, similar to the iPad. Ah, be careful with the Macbook, this can also be a problem - it only has USB-C. :-)
I assume that more people have a reader and camera with SD cards on their Macbook.
Nobody has a reader on a MacBook. Everyone on a MacBook Pro. I think the author was really talking about the 12` macbook and not about Pročka :)
For example, I don't have a card reader on my Macbook Pro. And it's not that I'm blind. Only because I have an ExpressCard slot there instead (into which the reader can also be stuffed).
Either I put the SD card in the NTB, or via a USB cable. But in both of these cases, I would need a reduction for the iPad Pro (either for a card reader or a USB converter - lighting connector).
And reduction to USB.
So I have a camera with wifi. And it's not compact. So it works. But with a larger amount, it's not much anymore, and it's not user friendly at all. for PRO use, there is simply still a limit to iOS and related applications from developers. Photoshop, FinalCut and other professional programs are irreplaceable, even if they were, most users would not abandon them.
Apple music is great, but if I want to add music to a video on iOS and iMovie, I'm out of luck and have to drag it from the Internet to iCloud and then it only works.
It's still awful though. It is not lighter than a macbook and the only advantage is the apple pencil for creative people. Working with a semi-keyboard and the inability to position the display is still a terrible limitation.
Why such a tabloid headline again? Here it's like in Blesk again - the headline says something and the article itself says the opposite.
Just like any other device – iPad Pro and Macbook make sense for some, not for others. One can replace the other in some things, but not completely. There are a number of things that a Macbook can do, but not an iPad Pro, and vice versa. That's just the way it is. Maybe someone doesn't need to do things where an iPad Pro wouldn't be enough for them, so it's really pointless for them to have both devices, but I definitely wouldn't generalize what the title of the article says here.
The biggest problem I see is that cloud storage cannot be used offline on the iPad.
:-))) Not even on a Macbook - that's why they are cloud-based after all. Otherwise, it is not a problem to have cloud content accessible for offline use on the iPad as well.
Honza meant it more in the form of automaticity. Like a google drive folder on your computer. Thus, any new content added to this folder would automatically be downloaded to the iPad Pro as well, if it was on a Wi-Fi network (for example).
If I understood the idea.
Now I received an email that Apple is sending me an Apple Pencil, so it is already in CZ. Whoever ordered it will probably get it soon. Btw. It definitely makes sense to have a Macbook Pro 15″ and an Ipad Pro, and I have been working quite successfully for a few days now :).
If OSX is available on the iPad, then we can talk about it.. There's no app in the AppStore for that, you can't get that on the iPad. I'm just afraid that it won't end up the other way around and iOS won't run on the note.
I agree, but I'm afraid that it will never work on the iPad for OSX, even if it is designed for it.
jailbreak will fix it.
to be a full-fledged OSX with Photoshop or Illustrator on the iPad Pro, a USB to connect an external disk and a somewhat reasonable data management associated with it, so there is something to think about, but this way it seems to me like a bit of an overpriced piece of shit... but maybe the fans want it. Nothing for me yet. I would 100% use a Moodbook similar to MS Surface. And maybe after the jailbreak it will be the ultimate toy, who knows?
I could see it as a Macbook replacement for travel if it had full photoshop and could be used instead of a wacom tablet for photo editing - instead of having a 13 inch macbook and a graphics tablet, just have an iPad Pro that weighs half the weight. I don't necessarily need OS X and I use reducer to connect fotak. But I'm afraid that there won't be enough professional applications for the "Pro" iPad, it's not just photoshop. The 9.7″ iPad is more of a passive device from which you read, browse, etc., but you can't create much, at least not on a professional level.