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iPad Pro Now Available for Purchase From Apple Online Store

I wonder if the delay in the pencil is because they suddenly decided to put an adaptor in with them?

By the way I rang the Cambridge store in the UK yesterday and they had everything in stock... when I got there they had just sold the last pencil, so I missed it by minutes... They had stock of all the different iPad configurations, but guess how many pencils they had? 4 or 5!

I'm using my new iPad pro with the cosmonaut stylus until the pencil ships... my wacom intuos stylus 2 doesn't seem to want to work with it either.

Very frustrating... and the oddest launch ever!
 
Ordered mine yesterday around 9 AM EST, with standard free shipping. Arrived today.
First impressions: BIG - even the charging cable is BIG, about twice as long as the standard ones, which is nice.
 
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Mac 128 said:
I expect that Apple will quickly catch up considering what the pencil is -- there's nothing exotic about it. Plastic and standard electronics, nothing fancy like finicky taptic engines.

But, what do you wanna bet that there will suddenly be an explosion of Apple Pencil's available on eBay for twice the retail price next week, as the frenzy over Apple's published shipping times escalates?
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AND if I would have gotten one yesterday with my iPad pro....one of those double priced pencils would have been mine :D

I am an unapologetic capitalist.
 
As far as the Apple Pencil/Apple Smart Keyboard goes, the Staples website is listing an availability date of November 18th. Other 3rd party retailers still simply say "coming soon" but I would expect that they all get it around that same timeframe. If 3rd party retailers have stock of these items by then, hopefully more Apple stores will start having them regularly available too.
 
Mine was going to be delivered Friday, but shipped with overnight shipping on Wed, so, it changed to today (when I'm not home, sigh) but, just got notified that it was delivered, dropped off at front door, even though nobody home to sign. Hope it will be there when I get home!
 
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Ordered mine yesterday around 9 AM EST, with standard free shipping. Arrived today.
First impressions: BIG - even the charging cable is BIG, about twice as long as the standard ones, which is nice.
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Which config did you get? My 128GB LTE model was ordered hours before that and it's coming till next week sometime.

The price of the cover and silicone bits is crazy. It should at least be leather for the price they're charging, but I don't see any good alternatives yet.
 
Gmouse said:
Mine was going to be delivered Friday, but shipped with overnight shipping on Wed, so, it changed to today (when I'm not home, sigh) but, just got notified that it was delivered, dropped off at front door, even though nobody home to sign. Hope it will be there when I get home!
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depends on where you live. Give me your exact address and I'll get back to you on the odds of it being stolen off the front porch
 
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Tim0 said:
My point exactly… I can understand $99 for a pencil, I can stretch my imagination to rationalize $59 for smart cover, but $79 for a piece of silicone???
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There were not many options available yesterday at the local store when I got mine. Actually the silicone case is nicer than what I thought, it has an internal lining that makes it nicer that a cheap one out there. I does fit nicely with the smart cover, and all the holes fit nicely with the speakers and all the buttons.
Not many color options they had, just the white one, and the cover slate, so it seems that on purpose they want you to come back to exchange it, so you buy more stuff in another visit. Side note they take returns until January 2016, as they are following the end of the year holiday policy for returns.
You may be able to get a lower price one though somewhere else if you find it.
 
With many comments on how this doesn't have 3D touch

That was my initial thoughts too, however, I wonder how much that would cost to implement in a 12.9" display and therefore how much more the IPP would've cost?
 
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I got mine this morning. I've been using it maybe an hour since I got home from work.
I'm listening to Apple Music classical (don't buy it for phat bass! But you knew that). It's a nice sound scape, a clear and rich sound. I've set it up as new, and on my iCloud account. I've got to say it's nice how the basics of my life are all just here without me thinking about it (that happens with any iCloud device of course)
I'm typing this on the iPad Pro. The keyboard in landscape is pretty close to real keyboard (for a 4-finger typist like me; I imagine a touch typist might want to get the keyboard).
I can't comment on the pencil yet because it's 5 days away.
Anyway, I jumped on here to see what posting on macrumors would be like as a typing experience (pretty good is the answer), and also to say, I'm starting to agree with Tim, that for many, many people, this will replace their PC.
 
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I got mine this morning. I've been using it maybe an hour since I got home from work.
I'm listening to Apple Music classical (don't buy it for phat bass! But you knew that). It's a nice sound scape, a clear and rich sound. I've set it up as new, and on my iCloud account. I've got to say it's nice how the basics of my life are all just here without me thinking about it (that happens with any iCloud device of course)
I'm typing this on the iPad Pro. The keyboard in landscape is pretty close to real keyboard (for a 4-finger typist like me; I imagine a touch typist might want to get the keyboard).
I can't comment on the pencil yet because it's 5 days away.
Anyway, I jumped on here to see what posting on macrumors would be like as a typing experience (pretty good is the answer), and also to say, I'm starting to agree with Tim, that for many, many people, this will replace their PC.
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How do you hold or angle the iPad while typing? Was at the store today to look at the iPad Pro, and thought the onscreen keyboard looked good enough to type on that perhaps I didn't need the keyboard cover, but couldn't quite envision how I would place the iPad so I could type.
 
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How do you hold or angle the iPad while typing? Was at the store today to look at the iPad Pro, and thought the onscreen keyboard looked good enough to type on that perhaps I didn't need the keyboard cover, but couldn't quite envision how I would place the iPad so I could type.
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Excellent question, and I was just thinking about that. I think if you do a lot of typing, then you need a keyboard of some sort. Otherwise, gorilla-arm or sore-neck. That's human physiology rather than any system. I'm wondering if a Bluetooth keyboard might not be a better idea, because then you can separate the keyboard and screen even more. I've got another idea as well...
 
What I'm thinking is, the reason typing while looking at the screen is such an ergonomic issue is you have to keep looking at every letter. Maybe, with the intelligent keyboards around these days, typing can require a bit less looking at the screen?
(For touch typists, as far as I know they need the guide keys. Anyone who can touch type without guide keys, yes they could type perfectly happily on it as is)
I'm not sure exactly what I mean about the intelligent keyboards, it's just the germ of an idea. I do know that the word-suggestions on my iPhone save an awful lot of typing...
 
More thoughts...
- This thing is FAST
- GarageBand is fantastic on the bigger screen
(if you've never used GB before, remember to Settings, General, Multitasking, Gestures, switch to off, otherwise any 4-finger things you do will wreck everything)
 
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I think I'll wait for the reviews - on here not the mainstream press

Nothing quite like real world usage is there ?
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I've had mine for three days. Love it, but the price...and it comes with no accessories. On top of the fact you can't find that pencil anywhere! I am not sure it is worth the upgrade from my Air2. If Christmas weren't around the corner, maybe it'd be easier to justify this purchase?
 
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cocacolakid said:
The iPad Pro isn't going to replace a laptop. They can say all they want it can/will but it won't. It's just a larger iPad, other than the Apple Pencil there are no new features and the Pencil is only going to help artists. I have a rMBP, there is no way I would not use that for creating something over the iPad Pro. I still bought one, I want a larger iPad. If Apple was serious about the Pro replacing laptops it would have 256gb of storage or more available. At the very least it needs an SD card slot, but we all know how likely it is that ever happens. lol.

The problem with the Surface 4 is it's not great at being a tablet because, 3-4 years into Windows tablets there still aren't a ton of apps. Which means it's more of a very expensive laptop with a horrible and expensive keyboard, that can be used in tablet mode. And it runs Windows, which gets worse with every version. For the price of a Surface 4 with the keyboard, or the Surface Pro 4 with a keyboard, you can get a superior laptop. There are tradeoffs in everything no matter if it's running OS X, iOS, Windows, or Android.

And I would skip the Apple keyboard for the iPad Pro. If you need/want a keyboard look at the Logitech one. I've had Logitech keyboards for iPads and the Logitech Pro for the Samsung Note Pro and they are great keyboards. They're not as thin as a smart cover like the Apple keyboard but every review I've read so far of the Apple keyboard is highly critical.
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hayhay said:
Picking up pad today...have to wait 2 weeks for Pencil and Keyboard/Cover?!?
Is it just me or does that make no sense whatsoever? You would think Apple would make damn sure...at the very least...they had a pencil for every pad available...since that is a MAJOR selling point.
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To me this seems like the norm lately. Announce something. Doesn't come out for months. Then it's almost impossible to get it. Or in this case the da*n accessories-which should be included.
 
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