Around August moving away from iPad 2. Didn't use it much until this year in my college classes.
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9.7" iPad Pro's 'Excellent' Display is 'Major Upgrade' Over iPad Air 2
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If it's any consolation, the 128 GB is 'only' $50 more expensive than its predecessor.
4 speakers, pencil support, larger storage options. It's a major improvement if any of those things are important to you. For me and a lot of people the pencil support is a game changer for this size iPad.
I love mine but the visible difference to my old iPad Air is not that much.
Apple dropping the price of the previous model is SOP. I almost think the 9.7" iPad Pro got the price increase such that 12.9" iPad doesn't look too expensive.
If you want to see a major difference, put any ipad side by side with the galaxy tab S, an 18 month old device. The difference is night and day.
next up, iPad Pro 9.7 2017, now with better speakers! 20% better and $100 increase! that's what consumers care about!
$599 is for 32gb which is what they have always charged for that amount of space.
Seems apple marketing is tapping into a consistent target: let's internally research what all our apple devoted have and give them a reason to buy a shiny new version.
This is a laptop replacement. check.
This is a huge upgrade to the air2. check.
What's next???
This is a laptop replacement. check.
This is a huge upgrade to the air2. check.
What's next???
A major upgrade if the new features are essential to you. Otherwise just another nice to have device.
i came to the 9.7 pro from an iPad 3. after 4 years and 3 models in between, i would characterize the quality difference as "barely noticeable"
thats not to say it isn't a fine display, and i'm sure there are measuring devices that highlight the improvements, but to the casual viewer i wouldn't say its anything to clamour over.
also, all these supposed colour space improvements, and yet the main thing people notice, be it a yellow, blue, purple or green colour cast (even with true tone disabled), are generally cited as "pickiness, acceptable manufacturing tolerances, etc..."
thats not to say it isn't a fine display, and i'm sure there are measuring devices that highlight the improvements, but to the casual viewer i wouldn't say its anything to clamour over.
also, all these supposed colour space improvements, and yet the main thing people notice, be it a yellow, blue, purple or green colour cast (even with true tone disabled), are generally cited as "pickiness, acceptable manufacturing tolerances, etc..."
$100 for A9X SoC and improved graphics, quad-speaker system, Apple Pencil capability, Smart Connector for Apple keyboard, best display in the industry PERIOD, SSD-based memory controller for incredible read/write flash storage performance, 12MP camera with True Tone flash, 5MP front camera with Retina flash display...
And this doesn't justify $100 more???
Get off your high horse.
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Same here... Switched from my iPad Mini 4 128GB Wifi to the iPP 9.7" (my first full-sized iPad in years), and it's phenomenal! It's become, at long last, my daily driver, replacing my MacBook Pro for 95% of my tasks, and I'm in love with it!
Let's make the iPad display brighter and even sharper than the other 4 previous iPad releases that 90% of consumers could NOT see the difference on...yeah...that's important.
Earth to Apple...it's not all about a great display (which, again, has been in the iPad for years)...what about all the other missing elements (I won't rehash all user's wishes) such as (especially a "pro" version) the inability to have the iPad act as any kind of network shared hard drive so I can drag and drop items off it to other electronics on my network...or the lack of separate user accounts (gasp!) so I can have more than 1 person use the iPad while maintaining/securing their own photos, email accounts, and web bookmarks....sheez...even if we could only have 2 accounts that's better than 1!...but Apple just wants me to fork over another $300-$600 for my 6 year old to play a few educational games or allow my wife to tailor her user account her way. Not.
Apple's iPad team the past 5 releases: "Let's make it thinner, lighter, and make the display sharper...oh, and shove a yearly-major-release of iOS with major changes in UI while gobbling up more CPU cycles". Yawn. Big yawn.
Earth to Apple...it's not all about a great display (which, again, has been in the iPad for years)...what about all the other missing elements (I won't rehash all user's wishes) such as (especially a "pro" version) the inability to have the iPad act as any kind of network shared hard drive so I can drag and drop items off it to other electronics on my network...or the lack of separate user accounts (gasp!) so I can have more than 1 person use the iPad while maintaining/securing their own photos, email accounts, and web bookmarks....sheez...even if we could only have 2 accounts that's better than 1!...but Apple just wants me to fork over another $300-$600 for my 6 year old to play a few educational games or allow my wife to tailor her user account her way. Not.
Apple's iPad team the past 5 releases: "Let's make it thinner, lighter, and make the display sharper...oh, and shove a yearly-major-release of iOS with major changes in UI while gobbling up more CPU cycles". Yawn. Big yawn.
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So does this mean that it'll show Daredevil in all its true glory, like that $8000 LG OLED TV or whatever does?
If you have current iPad Pro, your college life would be a little bit more exciting.
Handwriting using Apple stylus is really awesome. Plus Microsoft office suites on iPad is well optimised.
I wish I could have one but again I prefer bigger size so I might wait for iPad Pro next gen. And I still cannot find a solid reason replacing super cheap pen and paper to use a device worth over $1000, while the money saved to buy notebooks and pens is far less than that price tag.
An alternative way to look at it is going from the iPad Air to the iPad Air 2.
$0 for A8X CPU (triple core - 50% more cores than the iPhone chip), unique GPU with extra cores, much better display (better bonding of the screen to the glass), double the RAM, TouchID and Apple Pay (i.e. secure enclave), improved front and back cameras, 20% thinner and 10% lighter with same battery life, double the storage size (for $599 and $699 options).
The additions to the iPP are good, but not worth $100. It may be that you are happy to pay the extra, which is fine and a personal choice, but for me the additions are not 'worth' the incresaed cost.
It may sound unreasonable or stuck up or whatever but for a lot of Apple supporters money isn't an issue. 100 bucks isn't all that much. It may not be fair but that's how it is.
Don't bother. Some people just don't want to be talked to logically and get offended when disagreeing with an Apple decision.
It sounds nice. Am disappointed Apple raised the base price by $100 for this, but this was also the same price the 32GB Air 2 was selling for, right?
Will want to replace an iPad 2 that will drop off iOS updates at some point here (want to sell it before that) and this will probably be the replacement.
Will want to replace an iPad 2 that will drop off iOS updates at some point here (want to sell it before that) and this will probably be the replacement.
agreed. I don't see people upgrading to the pro just for the display.