Queue the "it needs at least 8 GB" statements.
editing 4K videos... Definitely needed 8GB...
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Adobe Claims iPad Pro Has 4GB of RAM [Updated]
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editing 4K videos... Definitely needed 8GB...
I also wont hold my breath on a external SD card or access to the filesystem..
The worst thing is that they will keep iPad Air underspec. now, just to show how good iPad Pro is. This is crazy. I guess no iPad Air update this October...
But you will miss out on the 4 speakers. Everyone needs 4 Speakers!
Too limited is entirely dependent on what you do with it. As an alternative to a cintiq companion running in €300-500 less, even at €1000 and paired with your mac as a second screen with the likes of Astropad - it would prove to be a fantastic Cintiq alternative and one priced cheaper with better battery life and far more flexibility.
Just because a device doesn't fit the parameters you have yourself - doesn't mean it's limited - it just means that you are limited in what you would do with yourself.
I have had the Surface Pro 2, windows has issues with Hi Dpi especially when third party apps enter the equation. The likes of Sketchbook Pro and Corel Painter have broken GUI's when viewed in the Surface Pro's 200% GUI scaling, meaning you have to reduce GUI scaling to 100-125% and then menus and toolbars become entirely cumbersome to work with, bordering on pure frustration.
I also had Note Pro 12.2 which Samsung's software support was abysmal.
For illustrators / artists and other users this tablet is a very enticing device and one which comparatively with the direct competition is actually bang on price wise and offers considerable price difference compared to Wacom's own android and windows based Cintiq devices.
For me the iPad Pro represents a great valued work tool and one that I will be no doubts - highly productive on.
Well is it like shaunp says:
...or rather if the ipad pro ran OsX with some sort of iOS mask on top then I might be interested. Till then...meh.
Wake me up when they shrink it and call it the iPad Air 3 next year....
This powerhouse of a ipad will run my Final Fantasy 7 app like a champ! Think of the game...think of the games!
What about if it ran BOTH.
Dock the keyboard and you can then run OSX full version, or select iOS as you would with the un-docked keyboard.
No reason why this could not be done.
Personally, I'm thinking in the long run, this is good strategy. iOS is really maturing and is still a better OS touch screen than OSX or native Windows. Sure, it would be nice to run OSX apps, but when you look at what you want to do with a tablet, or if you're going to use the pro as a laptop replacement, more than likely you're still going to be doing simple tasks such as typing a letter (which you can do with Word on iOS or other apps) or surfing the web, or doing emails... all you can do better on a touch screen with iOS.
The real application for the iPad Pro is probably going to be business. Businesses that will run specially iOS apps that do very specific tasks. Personally, I'll stick with a regular iPad and a laptop, but there is a place for the Pro. I guess we'll see.
Worse than this - they will keep the Macbook Air underspec. I fear we have seen the last MBA updates. I'd love an 11" MBA with a retina screen. The blingbook they brought in instead just doesn't have sufficient CPU power. but there is starting to be real crossover between the MB the MBA and the IPad Pro - I can't see them maintaining all these product lines - too much cannabilisation of their own products
I can't see Apple expecting the general public to rush out and buy it.I can't see the general public rushing out to buy it. Apple can feel free to prove me wrong, though.
Apple can feel free to completely ignore your challenge, and market it to the people who want a larger tablet like this.
It can be done =/= should be done. You'll end up with a product designed both for touch and for a mouse & keyboard interface, which excels at neither.
Oh wait, we've already got that Frankenstein product. It's called the Microsoft Surface.
I think it'll be down to the apps that make or break it. Adobe and microsoft in particular.
Mr Mercurian!!!! modbook.com is on the line for you sir!
Whatever your opinions are, 12,9" iPad is till better than this poor excuse of a notebook called MacBook. And it costs less!
exactly hence the 'pro' moniker.
It will appeal to certain users more than others hence Apple has a plethora of tablets for those that this doesn't fit their briefs.
For those that it is on brief for, it's perhaps one of the most exciting products Apple has released in some time.
hmm I don't think they do anymore, especially here in the UK, the iPad's are in a lot of schools, and our school just bought a bunch of mini's but the majority of schools are now using Google Apps for Education! It's free and has a wealth of teaching apps and support grows every year. For small schools this saves a lot of money in subscriptions for a digital learning platform, Google classroom is easy to use and simple to setup, I have been asking Apple for the past few years for something similar to support the iPads but there is nothing! Given that a lot of general school IT staff are not Apple orientated and aren't keen on integrating Apple gear currently we have a Teachers for iPads and tech staff against it kind of scenerio, now as Google Apps for Education take more and more control it makes sense for school to switch to Chromebooks, that is what our school already has planned after this batch of iPad's..Apple will lose the general education market completely. Google apps is pretty powerful and I don't see Apple even starting to compete, I really hope I'm wrong.
EG yesterdays announcement of iCloud pricing, why buy iCloud I get 30gb of Google for free! I've recently been moving all our emails accounts to Google because of this, & after a survey of friends that run small businesses they are the same, besides Google drive is amazingly simple compared to iCloud drive..
Having said all that I love the look of the iPad pro and the Pencil! & I hate using google
I'd sort of expect this considering they expect you to be able to run two full iPad apps side by side, and the Air 2 has 2 GB of RAM.
It's almost as if it's called iPad Pro for a reason. I already have a lot of ideas for it, none of which are graphics/illustration related, which is their primary target. It also would be a wonderful laptop/computer replacement for grandparents/parents or others who do not need a full computer (i.e., relative simplicity of iOS) and who could benefit from the larger screen.
I appreciate your experience, and I would definitely agree that for a school or a small faculty, Google's offerings are very tempting due to cost.
However in the larger scale education market and business market, people need reliable products with a stable OS, guaranteed updates, and second-to-none hardware/software support for enterprises. IBM/Apple are beginning to offer this, and in the next ~3 years I have no doubt that we'll see Apple dominate even more than they are at the moment. Time is money, as they say, and unless Google streamline an RMA process for larger companies or start raising their game with software updates, they're just going to fall further behind.
