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iPad Pro Features Improved Storage Controller for Desktop-Class Performance
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Its not weight, its bulk and bag space too. Not just the device, but chargers, cables and whatnot. One device that can do it all would be significantly easier to transport around.
Everyone has their own opinions and usage patterns, but my answer to your questions are:
1. No benefit at all. The iPad is optimized for what it does. If I want a very portable Mac OS machine, I'll get one of the new MacBooks.
2. I am a computer programmer, and there are a TON of things I do on Mac OS that I cannot do on my iPad. Even if Apple keeps focusing on making the iPad more and more "pro", it will be many years before it can replace everything I do.
That being said, I love my iPad, and I use it for different things. When I am not working, I probably spend 10x more time with my iPad than my Mac.
But standard Mac laptops lack two things the iPad has - a touch screen and one-handed use. Not everyone needs a touch screen, but it can be tremendously convenient for certain tasks.
How about terminal for a start and system activity finder disk utility. Listen if you cant get root access on your device without jailbreaking whats the point of owning a unix machine.
I love using iOS but that is a nightmarish prediction. I just fear that it's actually a possibility that this might come true.
Who cares? What is important is that the OS works and supports the user, not that is follows a 50 year old api some nerds created. Many things changed in this time...
The people who create the software you run on your iOS devices for one...
If you want all of that and you want ultra portability of an 13" screen BUY THE MACBOOK. Its not like Apple doesn't provide any device with OSX anymore and they focus only on iOS !
yes if Apple would get rid of Macs then this iPAD pro probably would have dual boot for iOS and OSX BUT IS NOT THE CASE, you have Options in your brand ecosystem
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The iPad pro is truly a PRO device, targeted at the Pro user. It's competing with other Pro devices such as Wacom, and executive high end users. In that market, the price point of the iPad pro is reasonable, even a bargain.
Playing games with the numbers, many of those devices that it's comparing to are a fraction of the price of an iPad Pro. How fast is it compared to shipped units in the same price range?
Maybe a lot of people who bought in the last year a pc portable are poor and took a mid range hardware cpu and gpu
It's not the weight. It's the compiling and Simulating on an x86 machine when the real target is ARM. Also time wasted on downloading, cables that can get lost in the bag, left behind, etc.
Cross-compiling apps might have been necessary back in the day of PalmPilots, but any new iPad easily rivals or beats a supercomputer or Unix build server from that era.
I was thinking the same till they showed the internals, the logic board places the a9x bang in the middle of the iPad. Smart move
Yes. Function before Form. I guess there is still hope.
What pro users are those?
Even in the demo of the Adobe software that image of the woman with the non smile was imported from camera roll. Now how did that image get there? Also, what sort of resolution was that photo. No designer will want a document that's using a compressed image within it.
At the moment the only pro thing about it is the word 'pro' on the box.
By the way - are all forgetting that each iPhone cost around 1000$ at the top model and the iPad1 did, too?
And I really get the feeling many here have a twisted idea of what pro means:
professional |prəˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l|
adjective
1 relating to or belonging to a profession: young professional people.• worthy of or appropriate to a professional person; competent, skilful, or assured: his professional expertise | their music is both memorable and professional.
2 engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as an amateur: a professional boxer.• informal, derogatory habitually making a feature of a particular activity or attribute: a professional gloom-monger.
noun
a person engaged or qualified in a profession: professionals such as lawyers and surveyors.• a person engaged in a specified activity, especially a sport, as a main paid occupation rather than as a pastime. his first season as a professional.• a person competent or skilled in a particular activity: she was a real professional on stage.
And I really get the feeling many here have a twisted idea of what pro means:
professional |prəˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l|
adjective
1 relating to or belonging to a profession: young professional people.• worthy of or appropriate to a professional person; competent, skilful, or assured: his professional expertise | their music is both memorable and professional.
2 engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as an amateur: a professional boxer.• informal, derogatory habitually making a feature of a particular activity or attribute: a professional gloom-monger.
noun
a person engaged or qualified in a profession: professionals such as lawyers and surveyors.• a person engaged in a specified activity, especially a sport, as a main paid occupation rather than as a pastime. his first season as a professional.• a person competent or skilled in a particular activity: she was a real professional on stage.
Exactly. It's largely irrelevant how many streams it can handle if you can't get them into the thing.
I imagine they are suggesting it can edit the 4k video shot on the 6s.
And you get the files from the CF/SD card in your camera into the iPad how exactly?
Think 'pro' here. So eye-fi cards are a no go.
Definitely, having a lag-free and precise stylus environment is not a $100 feature. It alone easily covers the difference in price between the iPad Pro and Air.
Of course there's also the actual stereo speakers instead of the effectively mono sound from all previous iOS devices. The previous method of having left and right close together on the bottom meant that landscape video was basically mono, and even portrait put the speakers too close together.
And the improved storage access might not just involve a different controller, but possibly different flash cell storage as well. This usually bumps the cost up.
Most likely, these features couldn't be put into the Air due to cost, and space restrictions for the speakers and maybe screen. So, the Air could have received the CPU, but if it's memory or storage access bound, then that would have been pointless. Maybe the M9 that drives Hey Siri could have found its way into the Air.
Especially for new entrants into the iOS dev space, having XCode on iPad would be huge for slashing the cost, cutting out the need for a MacBook [Air]. Actually, what would be even cheaper, would be XCode on AppleTV, assuming people already have an 1080p TV, then adding a Bluetooth keyboard with trackpad would make it the absolutely cheapest iOS platform.