That "desktop toy" is a joy to use for video editing compared to 2-year-old $3,000 laptops.
Don’t think you have cought my drift. Remarkable as it is, you don’t really get the full package for the price.
Explaining …
Today what is on offer is either a toy of an OS in a Pro machine, case in case the iPad OS in an iPad Pro machine (1). Or a pro of an OS in an toy machine, case in case the macOS in the new toy iMacs. (2). Paradoxically.
The well balanced product that came out was fundamentally the Macbook Air. Incredible product. Professional grade OS packed together with powerful metal, inside a thin and light body … incredible. Can’t wait for next gen of this.
(1) iPad OS 15 is fixing a lot of stuff indeed. But mouse support is still weak, don’t understand why Apple does not support its own mouse gestures like the macOS, instead is pushing the trackpad. “Back to my Mac” was removed years ago from macOS, instead of integrating into iPad OS as a client … this is really usefull desktop professionals in the iPad. The iPad still lack serious professional grade productivity apps, all we have is seriously cutback versions of macOS apps, not even Apple is doing the effort … no Final Cut Pro still. The only companies that are making such effort is Adobe and some smaller players … accepting the ability of being their own product merchant be taken away while giving 30% of the revenue generated by their value to Apple, courtesy of App Store policies. Finally, it does not support any kind of serious development workloads … not even heck Back to my Mac as I’ve said is there to workaround the issue … having an iPad Pro working in tandem with a pro desktop machine in proximity and away is crucial for such an invenstment (Over 3.5k)
(2) This seams to be easier to sort out with next gen Ms. But with toys going up to €2300, curious about how much professionals will need to pay for well balanced products.
Apple Design / Management suffer from iPhonitis. They seams to be trying to manage and design their core professional line up exactly like an iPhone … the iPad Pro is not an iPhone, neither are professional desktop macs. I think this makes their other product strategies weaker then they could have been … some signs of this have been showing .. This is not an M1 problem but a problem generated by dogmas and challenges companies companies face when they get a hugely successfull product, everything else pales from a management perspective. That is why a strong computing vision not totally surrendered to one product is fundamental showing that there is more, much more than one product and it’s surroundings. It is taking too much time … 10 years or so and still not there, iPad experience is still contrived … even my kids want a laptop … the older one 14 got an MBA for school because of it as the iPad was already contrived … and because of it it did not get an iPad Pro and wonder if he will ever get an iPad from me again.
Hopefully all this will be sorted out in the next 15 months or so.
