IMO, beyond useless. Too big to use anywhere you'd use a tablet i.e. train, plane, sofa etc. Too heavy to hold in one hand.
Just can't see a place for this at all. To hang up on a wall perhaps??
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Alleged 'iPad Pro' Model Shows What the Giant Tablet Might Look Like In-Hand
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IMO, beyond useless. Too big to use anywhere you'd use a tablet i.e. train, plane, sofa etc. Too heavy to hold in one hand.
Just can't see a place for this at all. To hang up on a wall perhaps??
I've long thought that the display-half of the smallest MBP would make for a good tablet size, and that the original iPad was smaller than it needed to be – weight being the primary concern.
This could allow for a full-size keyboard in portrait mode (The format for websites and many documents, after all – unnecessarily widescreen monitors are a pet hate of mine, kinda, anyway.) in addition to a finally sensible display-area:keyboard ratio. Modifier keys only presently useable on bluetooth keyboards could even feature, furthering productivity.
More component space is a given.
To those talking about comfortable use: In enterprise or education, where a decent amount of content production takes place, there are desks. Use in motion as if it were a phone is clearly not going to be the most efficient, but I imagine that the weight would be low enough to allow it to be 'cradled' in one arm.
If this product really is the first of a new category, i.e. Pro product it may be that the most commonly used apps are exclusives which demand increased resolution, real estate and power compared to their lighter, present iOS counterparts.
An Office app that can lets you switch between multiple documents of the same type would be welcome.. as would for many a more robust in-field Photoshop app or similar.
This could allow for a full-size keyboard in portrait mode (The format for websites and many documents, after all – unnecessarily widescreen monitors are a pet hate of mine, kinda, anyway.) in addition to a finally sensible display-area:keyboard ratio. Modifier keys only presently useable on bluetooth keyboards could even feature, furthering productivity.
More component space is a given.
To those talking about comfortable use: In enterprise or education, where a decent amount of content production takes place, there are desks. Use in motion as if it were a phone is clearly not going to be the most efficient, but I imagine that the weight would be low enough to allow it to be 'cradled' in one arm.
If this product really is the first of a new category, i.e. Pro product it may be that the most commonly used apps are exclusives which demand increased resolution, real estate and power compared to their lighter, present iOS counterparts.
An Office app that can lets you switch between multiple documents of the same type would be welcome.. as would for many a more robust in-field Photoshop app or similar.
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A screen this size would fully expose the limitations of the "grid of icons" paradigm that Apple have boxed themselves into. Makes sense on a small screen but would look ridiculous on this.
I'm leaning the other way
Recently have been really digging the iPad mini.
I use the iPad mainly for web browsing, no productivity whatsoever (except consolidating expenses), I don't read on it (read a lot on my kindle reader (eink) ).
I can't help but feel the iPad mini is a better fit, I might just hold out to see what's coming in Oct, but part of me says to sell my iPad 3 now and get a refurb iPad mini for $220.
Recently have been really digging the iPad mini.
I use the iPad mainly for web browsing, no productivity whatsoever (except consolidating expenses), I don't read on it (read a lot on my kindle reader (eink) ).
I can't help but feel the iPad mini is a better fit, I might just hold out to see what's coming in Oct, but part of me says to sell my iPad 3 now and get a refurb iPad mini for $220.
Well, Tim has promised that 2014 will be exciting. If there are no actual new products (not too hopeful for the watch), this could be a logical progression. But, one question remains: WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I could use a bigger MacBook Air, but iPad is big enough. It's already awkward enough to lay flat on a table and use.
I could use a bigger MacBook Air, but iPad is big enough. It's already awkward enough to lay flat on a table and use.
Can't wait for this to come out.... So I can see people pulling this out at high school graduations to take a picture. Better yet, someone taking a mega-selfie
Not really sold on the size, but it does kind of remind me of the Kindle DX, which was pretty sweet for research papers/journals and the like. People around here like to whine about Apple making things thinner and lighter, but it's years/decades of that incremental effort that would make something like this practical.
Anyway, I'd be surprised if Apple didn't have something like this in their lab, but whether it's deemed product-worthy is an entirely different question.
Anyway, I'd be surprised if Apple didn't have something like this in their lab, but whether it's deemed product-worthy is an entirely different question.
Maybe - but the app icons are simply a launch space. Why would it matter if you have 35 icons on the home screen? You launch an app and you're off the home screen.
Unless you have to have active widgets, which frankly just wastes battery life, on your home screen, the grid of apps shouldn't really matter.
Weirdly, having finally got into using Logic remote as a mixing tool and a instrument id absolutely love a huge iPad. It wouldn't go anywhere, it'd be as mounted as my iMac but it would taken on Slate digitals "Raven" console with far better touch sensitivity and probably be 1/5th of the price.
Though I admit thats a very specific market, having said that the audio market is huge so. Even if you were to market it as a touch screen mixing console alone thats quite a big area, now consider what other professional industries might be able to benefit from a large touch screen, granted it has little to no uses for the average person on MacRumours but I think this could be a hit in the pro world.
Though I admit thats a very specific market, having said that the audio market is huge so. Even if you were to market it as a touch screen mixing console alone thats quite a big area, now consider what other professional industries might be able to benefit from a large touch screen, granted it has little to no uses for the average person on MacRumours but I think this could be a hit in the pro world.
I hope it will come with a 15 inch screen too, and a keyboard, a trackpad and the ability to install OS X. Ohh wait..
The photo looks sorta like it could be real but I know it's not becuase there will be no iPad pro at least no this year. AND TO EVERY ONE WHO COMPLAINS ABOUT THE RUMORS/MOCKUPS ON MACRUMORS JUST DONT CLICK ON THEM. I LIKE THEM AND IF YOU DONT JUST DONT CLICK. Problem solved.