I did the same as most of you guys that thought an iPad could do the work of a laptop. For most things yeah, but it's soooooooo frustrating when it can't. I was trying to print our wedding invitations and thought the iPad could print different paper sizes. Nope. Printer Pro helped, but we needed to borrow a MacBook from a friend. It's kind of embarrassing how the iOS software needs to be updated.
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Does the new MacBook eliminate the want for an iPad? Or make you reconsider one?
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It makes me reconsider the ipad, but I agree with a lot that has been said above.
With the MacBook, Apple has demonstrated a device which if you took the keyboard off, and combined the screen and the CPU base, you have what many would consider an acceptable thickness of tablet, yet running full osx. Given the ipad touchscreens, then making that unit touchscreen would be feasible too.
Add a detachable keyboard ... Oh wait a minute there is a bluetooth one already, and a mouse .... Each of which could be colour coordinated, then you genuinely have the best of all worlds.
Such a device would be thicker than existing iPads, but that is certainly something I would accept and pay for given the increased functionality.
With the MacBook, Apple has demonstrated a device which if you took the keyboard off, and combined the screen and the CPU base, you have what many would consider an acceptable thickness of tablet, yet running full osx. Given the ipad touchscreens, then making that unit touchscreen would be feasible too.
Add a detachable keyboard ... Oh wait a minute there is a bluetooth one already, and a mouse .... Each of which could be colour coordinated, then you genuinely have the best of all worlds.
Such a device would be thicker than existing iPads, but that is certainly something I would accept and pay for given the increased functionality.
I agree. They're not in the same market if the starting price is double the cost of the other. Also, the form factor is completely different. One is a touchscreen with no keyboard, and the other has a keyboard and trackpad.
do you think apple will ever offer an iPad pro with full OS X capabilities or would that tear into their macbook market?
Yeah, that's the main complaint I have about the iPad. In its pursuit of simplicity, it can do 80% of what a laptop can do. For most casual things, that is enough. But, eventually, the iPad will be missing one really necessary feature that Apple decided wasn't worth implementing. So, I ended up going with a mac laptop and a windows tablet (Dell Venue 8 Pro).
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I think they might do a 12" ipad pro that is kinda similar to a surface pro. It runs iOS only. When docked to a keyboard/trackpad, it has a simplified OSX interface, but it only runs iOS apps. iOS apps are run in windows or can be made full screen, like in OSX. When you undock the keyboard, it converts the interface to the traditional iOS interface.
I tried to build 4 powerpoint slides this weekend and what I couldn't get done in over an hour on my ipad got done in less than 5 minutes on my macbook. That's simply because even a really awesome powerpoint app on the ipad doesn't have half the functionality of the Beta version of powerpoint on the macbook.
I thought I could use my ipad and replace my laptop on business trips. Not a chance. The macbook will get tested once it's out. I think the power is fine. I just need to get a lot of adapters.