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Analyst Skeptical About Imminent Launch for 12.9-Inch 'iPad Pro'

Jess13 said:
The new Apple innovation. A "detachable" iPad as the screen for the MacBook Pro, while the MacBook Pro + iPad both have their own separate OS X & iOS operating systems, hardware components, etc. that work seemlessly together and also work separately. With the rumored AirDrop OS X to iOS 8, that would also make a lot of sense for instant file transfer between devices.
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Im with you Jess. Say they offered a MBA or P with no screen? Cheaper. The iPad Pro is the screen, merely displaying the MacBook, Unclip it, you have an iPad. A Surface Pro that is a genuine touch tablet and a genuine non touch full desktop OS. No compromise. What a way to pull iPad users to OSX.

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tdale said:
Im with you Jess. Say they offered a MBA or P with no screen? Cheaper. The iPad Pro is the screen, merely displaying the MacBook, Unclip it, you have an iPad. A Surface Pro that is a genuine touch tablet and a genuine non touch full desktop OS. No compromise. What a way to pull iPad users to OSX.
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Yes, I guess they could work seamlessly together too, omitted that part of your post. As they are two seperate devices, but switch one to the other if you leave both on.
 
Infinitewisdom said:
Couldn't this just be a retina screen for the MacBook Air?
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See Jess's and my post thats the only sensible idea. I haven't considered how any cannabalism would match up, but a bgd iPad, heavier, cumbersome, costly. If its JUST a big iPad it carries no extra functionality except size. If its called Pro, that means it does more
 
I'd buy one. I don't care about portability, I just want a bigger screen. But it'd need to be at most 700g. Any more than that it's starting to get too heavy.
 
umm....

".... device was not very portable and awkward to hold for long periods of time."


That's what i been saying....... If this *does* turn out to be any kind of a product, don't expect it to be very portable..

Users are only experiencing that now... How can people even think that "wow a cool 12-inch or so tablet, but hey, i'll have to HOLD it first to SEE, it its too heavy."

Are people not from this planet or something ?.
 
I can see how it will be awkward to hold it after awhile, and last I heard, Apple is not trying to conquer the enterprise market... Hopefully this is just a false rumor to get samsung to waste $$$ and effort to rush some junk into the market first.
 
I gather none of you are creatives. The pro size is a no-brainer. Especially if there is a full touch version of PS etc.

Even for other people it's just a bigger iPad. Just like a bigger phone, a bigger MBP etc. No diff!!

It will sell like the wind.
 
patent10021 said:
I gather none of you are creatives. The pro size is a no-brainer. Especially if there is a full touch version of PS etc.

Even for other people it's just a bigger iPad. Just like a bigger phone, a bigger MBP etc. No diff!!

It will sell like the wind.
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Yeah it's a no-brainer alright. That is to say, a brain wasn't used when someone fabricated this rumor. A slightly bigger phone (4.8" max) makes sense, but a considerably larger iPad? Definitely not.
 
Even if they did make a bigger iPad, Apple would squander it by having the phone UI scaled up once again.

I'm betting more on the MacBook Air w/ Retina screen. The current Air is stands out a mile against the others with its god awful screen and sizeable bezels.
 
it's pointless to have bigger ipads. what apple needs to do is revamp the iOS so it is more like a real operating system instead of a kiddie's play.
 
I'd like nothing more than to buy one of these for every employee in our offices and one at each workstation on the shop floor. Would be supremely more useful than the standard size ipad for every discipline.

But, I'll believe it when I see it.
 
I can't believe how far apple has come from the 'not changing the size because don't want to fragment' mentality. They've been doing little but resizing their products for years now.

That being said. This thing would probably be sweet, but it would mark one step closer to when apple takes away my option to get an awesome laptop and tries to kill the "PC", giving me only ipads and i have to try to move to ubuntu to keep a laptop.
 
Once again we have another bloated out article saying an analyst thinks something. No proof to back up any claims, of course not that would make it news and not sensationalism to get yourself some notoriety.
 
The emerging Apple-TV

This is - or should be - the beginning of the Apple-TV concept, where you choose your screen size from whatever you need, and all screens stream the same content. Screens will converge and become a commodity, big screens for conference rooms and TV-parlours, smaller screens for kitchens and bedrooms, you will buy them by the measurements - all managed by the little black box, Apple-TV.
 
1=1? said:
I can't believe how far apple has come from the 'not changing the size because don't want to fragment' mentality. They've been doing little but resizing their products for years now.

That being said. This thing would probably be sweet, but it would mark one step closer to when apple takes away my option to get an awesome laptop and tries to kill the "PC", giving me only ipads and i have to try to move to ubuntu to keep a laptop.
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Thats not fragmentation. Android has fragmentation as the many Android devices are built by many CPU and GPU combinations. Thats why its difficult to provide updates as too many manufacturers have to create an update that runs on their XYZ CPU and GPU. Android has no issue with screen sizes as it scales. iOS has no issue as the few variations of res, density, and screen size across iPhone and iPad has not caused an issue for apps.

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claus1225 said:
it's pointless to have bigger ipads. what apple needs to do is revamp the iOS so it is more like a real operating system instead of a kiddie's play.
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Hmm, ok. Its a tablet OS based on apps. Apps own the system. OSX is a desktop non touch OS based on files. Do you want to use Finder on an iPad? May as well just use a MBA 11"
 
The big question now is, which analyst do we believe?

Or should we just stop listening to their clearly misinformed ramblings?
 
A "pro" iPad needs better software than iOS and a wacom digitiser and pen.

Not a bigger screen.

I think these screens are for a Retina Macbook Air too.

If they can do a 12 inch screen in the current 11 inch case then that'll look pretty sweet.
 
o0smoothies0o said:
They don't sell that anymore, remember? Had something to do with no one wanting a 17" cumbersome, heavy laptop.
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Speak for yourself. For me, the 17" PowerBook/MacBook Pro had the perfect size. I found it an idiotic decision on Apple's part to drop the high-end models.

I also wonder for whom they designed this new Mac Pro, which basically is just a Mac Mini with a better CPU and GPU - but it definitely is NOT a workstation, which a Mac Pro was always supposed to be. Must be fun to have a gazillion of Thunderbolt cables lying on one's desk just to connect all those external devices that would have fit in the old tower case.

I guess that just happens when you let fashion designers take over an IT company...
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I kind of get the feeling that someone at Apple started the 13" iPad rumour just to watch competitions rush to push out a device of this size and completely wast their time. The Samsung one is just ridiculously big and impractical to use that I kind of think they succeeded.:rolleyes:
 
No point in bigger iPad.

Macbook Air with retina display (just one size of 12inch) 1000$.

Killer product. There are no other ultrabook with that kind of display for that price.
 
Who is funding a "supply chain research firm" ?

Where do all these firms get their money? Wall Street? Investors?
 
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rp2011 said:
There will never be a 13" iPad. It's such a preposterous product to even consider.
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Absolutely wrong. With an enhanced feature set (windowed multitasking, Wacom at least) it'd be a killer for serious users. Even at larger screen sizes - let's not forget that the Toughpad 4K has a 19" screen.

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nikaru said:
No point in bigger iPad.

Macbook Air with retina display (just one size of 12inch) 1000$.

Killer product. There are no other ultrabook with that kind of display for that price.
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It still seriously lacks Wacom support, making it unsuitable for a lot of tasks. (I'm not asking for touch support as I know OS X isn't optimized for touch. Wacom, on the other hand, requires no touch optimization - it's essentially a mouse.)
 
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