iPad iPad and productivity... iPad Pro?

[Fireball Dragon]

With Apple now naming the 9.7" iPad as "Air", speculations are surfacing about a possibly larger screen iPad (perhaps iPad Pro?) coming soon.

As I do a fair bit of productivity work on my iPad already (pages, keynote, note taking apps, Evernote, etc), I am tempted to play the waiting game, although I do think a 128GB LTE iPad air would be excellent for some productivity, considering the powerful A7 chipset.

Okay, so this isn't really a question, but any thoughts on this?

 

[rovex]

Nothing will be announced until iOS 8 which hopefully will allow for split screen multitasking.

Surely that's more important than any spec for a pro tablet.

 

[isephmusic]

i played with a surface pro 2, opened up Paint and man did it feel sooooo good to FINALLY be able to place wrist on a tablet but draw and write ACCURATELY with the pen that comes with it

wish apple made a tablet with digitizer screen and wrist detection. it really felt awesome. if the surface pro wasn't 800 bucks and was a tad lighter i woulda jumped on it asap

 

[hologram]

The Air is real, the Pro isn't. It's just a rumor. You could be waiting for years, or even forever, if it never gets past the rumor stage. There isn't a single shred of evidence for it's development, beyond wishful thinking.

The grass is always greener, ya know? Unless what's left of it is in the ashtray!

 

[nostresshere]

The Air is real, the Pro isn't. It's just a rumor. You could be waiting for years, or even forever, if it never gets past the rumor stage. There isn't a single shred of evidence for it's development, beyond wishful thinking.

The grass is always greener, ya know? Unless what's left of it is in the ashtray!

Yea, a big rumor at this point, though some take it more serious than others. If you scroll down a page, you will find some threads on this, after the wide number of repeat threads tied to the rollout of the Air this week.

 

[Mainsail]

Tablets are great for content consumption, productivity, and light content creation. For heavy lifting, it's best to use a desktop or laptop. Only you can decide if you frequently need to do heavy lifting whilst away from your office or desktop. Here is my list:

1. Content consumption (tablet)
Music
Video
Movies
Streaming content
eBooks
Web browsing
Maps and Directions
Photos
Games
Social media (e.g. Facebook and Twitter)

2. Productivity and Light Content Creation (tablet)
Email
Messaging
Calendar
Contacts
Reminders
Notes
PDF Review and annotation (e.g Good reader)
Cloud files and document management (e.g. Dropbox)
Simple document creation and editing (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote)
Financial Tracking and e-banking (e.g. Mint)
Access work related databases (e.g. LogMeIn)
Light photo editing and management (e.g. iPhoto, Flickr)
Simple slideshow and movie creation (e.g. iMovie)

3. Moderate to Heavy Content Creation (laptop or desktop)
Writing long papers and reports (to some extent, this can done with a tablet + bluetooth keyboard)
Developing and editing moderately large or complex spreadsheets
Developing lengthy or complex presentations
Creating and manipulating databases and reports
Video and music editing and creation

When away from your office, if you mainly do stuff on lists 1&2, then a tablet should be fine and the iPad Air would be great. If you do a lot of stuff on list 3 when away from your office or desktop, then you need a laptop or you might want to wait for some kind of next generation device. I should mention that I know a fair number of professionals in responsible positions (CFO, Fund Manager, VP Manufacturing etc) that do real work and go iPad only when on business travel. They simply save the heavy lifting for back at the office.