First
glance you might think the most notable thing about apple's new iPad Pro. It's
giant size or it's gorgeous, high resolution display. But actually the most
interesting thing about the New iPad pro is its price, because when you
consider the price of it $799 to the base model 2079 for the top of the line
iPad Pro. Then an optional $99 stylist and hundred, $69 keyboard you're
entering a new category the big leagues. That's as much as apple's own MacBook
air a Microsoft surface pro and there you know real computers not just tablets.
We
know the distinction almost feels outdated, but isn't that the point. So the
big question around the iPad pro is who is it to do you really need this much
iPad and can replace your day to day laptop.
Ok,
let's start by talking about how big the iPad pro is it has 12 point nine inch diagonal display
larger any iPad before it and pound and a half it's also on the heavy side for
an iPad. But as with almost everything in tech gadgetry. It's really a matter
of relativity is a 12 point nine inch diagonal display big sure for a tablet,
but that's about the same size and weight as Microsoft's new surface pro 4 and
it's still smaller than my 13 inch macboook pro and lighter than the MacBook
air. The iPad pro has a super high resolution display. So photos, videos, even
text look insanely good at it.
It
has apple's newest ship architecture the a 9 X chip which Apple claims offers
double the CPU and double the graphics performance of the chip and iPad air 2. Apple claims 10 hours of
battery life, So in my test it came in just under that it without a doubt the
most powerful iPad ever in fact there are a lot of things about it. That makes
this feel like a full computer, it can
multitask with split screen.
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So
you can run various apps like mail and slack or Microsoft Word in Microsoft
Excel side side by side in their full size and if you pony up for the Apple
pencil you can do pretty remarkable stuff with software like AutoCAD 360
paper by 53 Adobe photoshop fix Nick's
sketch I've been working on my dream kitchen and paper making a much-up of
Christmas cards and adobe com we can edit photos in photoshop fix. I even try
to design a 3D model for a car in the App you make although honestly looked
more like a car crash than a car. There
is something unapologetically Apple
about revealing a white pencil and calling it pencil and charging ninety nice
dollars for it.
It's
lacking some basic design elements that something like Microsoft surface
stylist has the top part of it doesn't work as an eraser it's not magnetized
and it doesn't have a clip if you want to get old school nerd and stick it in your shirt pocket or something, But
this pencil is technologically
impressive.
We
are using other stylist is often results
in a tiny bit of latency the Apple pencil, felt really accurate when I was
using it. It's has a tilt sensor so it knows when you're shading basically it
felt like using a pencil, then there's the
keyboard, maybe even more so than pencil
Apple really is taking a page from Microsoft here with this cover keyboard, but
the addition of Apple's own keyboard really does make the iPad Pro feel a PC
replacement.
It
looks like a standard iPad smart Cover. But a quadrant of the cover is all
keys using a magnetic, smart connector
the iPad snaps into the smart cover keyboard and then keyboard it draws power
from the iPad.
So
you don't ever need to charge it, it's layout mirrors the MacBook keyboard
layout though it's missing the whole top
row and of course a trackpad. So just who is the iPad Pro for the most obvious
answer is that it's for people who just want giant iPad and have some cash to
spare, but it's also for people who want to play in the surprisingly big world
of creating apps for iOS and used could end up being used quite a bit in the
Enterprise
market.
The big
question for everyone else then is whether this can replace a laptop on
the one hand it can't fundamentally do all things and MacBook can it can't give
you adobe's desktop version of creative apps or even Apple's own final cut pro.
While split screen and slide over features
are nice it just isn't a replacement for the ability to position and manipulate
multiple windows on a Desktop,
Even
with those limitations I can say firmly that it comes dangerously close to
being a MacBook replacement. I would actually take this on my next business
trip in lieu of my laptop. I never felt that way about an iPad before five
years ago Steve jobs said that PCs were trucks implying that tablets would be
cars or something else more efficient that never happened with the iPad which
consumers have primarily seen as a consumer device not a creation device but
with the iPad pro that very well could change.
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