The surface Pro 3 does excel at being a tablet. It has touch apps and even regular apps now can be easily used with touch. The tablet part of the book isn't heavy at all. Again, use a surface pro if you want longer battery life. However, "Pros" use a tablet less than full OS the majority of the time. iPad Pro is an iPad plus with a stick poking out of the bottom when you need more pencil juice. the battery on my surface pro pen is still going after more than a year of use.
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The surface Pro 3 does excel at being a tablet. It has touch apps and even regular apps now can be easily used with touch. The tablet part of the book isn't heavy at all. Again, use a surface pro if you want longer battery life. However, "Pros" use a tablet less than full OS the majority of the time. iPad Pro is an iPad plus with a stick poking out of the bottom when you need more pencil juice. the battery on my surface pro pen is still going after more than a year of use.
To all of you who keep throwing out OS X as a good thing for a tablet. It's not. The OS is not made for touch. The apps do not have UI that would be good for touch. OS X isn't exactly swimming in applications as a desktop OS, and would be basically starting fresh with an OS not designed or optimized for touch/ARM and no applications.
At that point, might as well get a Surface.
At that point, might as well get a Surface.
Apple said very plainly when they switched to Cali names that they want a naming structure for the next ten years. The year after that is when I think OS X goes away and ARM takes over.
Maybe on a flat table. On anything with even a small slope, it just falls to the ground.
You're right; it's my fault for still viewing this from the paradigm of the "old" MacBook (such as the late-2008 I owned - since sold to a friend and it's still alive and kicking - and which I sometimes have felt was a more rock-solid machine than my current 2012 MacBook Pro). When it came out, I saw the MacBook Air as a "lower tier" version of that MacBook (not to sell it short; my wife has one and loves it). So by my logic (correct me if I'm wrong) says we used to have this:
"MacBook < MacBook Pro", then along came the MacBook Air which gave us "MacBook Air < MacBook < MacBook Pro"
Now, with the "Mac Mini-ification" (i.e. neutering) of the MacBook, we now have:
"MacBook < MacBook Air < [nothing] < MacBook Pro"
So if I'm indeed correct, it's just yet another troubling instance of lost ground in the Mac lineup.
Hoping OS X 10.12 integrates iOS apps into OS X with touch screen so the iPad Pro can be useful.
Ummm I think you just described the new MacBooks minus the iOS. But then if that happened then there would be no need for the iPads, or the vise-vera MacBook, MacBook Air ......Just saying
Uhhh, for those of you that don't speak Alabama Southern, that should have been transcribed as diluted.
It's rare for anyone at Apple to actually mention a product by name. Basically sends the message that it definitely caught Tim's attention, at the very least. The Surface Book is hitting right into Apple territory with it's premium build quality, form factor, performance, and price range.
Yeah, great attention to detail not having the pencil available for 3-4 weeks...
Oh god no!!! What are you suggesting?!? Tim wants to first sell you brand new professional tablet and after that he wants to sell you brand new ultra super retina MBP which is must for those who want to do realy realy professional stuff like write with real keyboard, use real photoshop or edit with something other than iMovie.
The joke was too long, dude.It won't sound funny at all if you are an apple sheep
I don't think iPad Pro is aimed at casual users. I think it's primarily targeted towards enterprise and creative markets. Enterprise needed a larger screen and more horsepower for custom apps. I don't think we'll ever see touch OS X, as some seem to want. And while I don't see iOS and OS X merging in the near future, I do think iOS will replace OS X in the long run.
Considering that MS depends on Intel.. I wouldn't bet on Surface 5 outperforming AT ALL.
Considering that the Surface doesn't sell that well despite the constant chatter on tech sites, and the tablet portions sucks and the laptop portion isn't that great. Yes, I've used it. Not sure what the hell you're talking about.
Not so. As of a year or two ago, when developers submit to the iOS and OS X app stores via Xcode, they don't actually submit a fully compiled project to Apple. Instead it uploads a platform independent file to Apple's servers, then Apple handles actually generating the executable that the customers download.
The idea is to make it so that when new versions of ARM or x86 comes out, developers don't need to recompile and resubmit to take advantage of new stuff. Apple handles the final compilation from the platform independent file to the actual executable binary.
So any app that has been updated within the past 2 years is ready for the change in architecture when OS X moves from Intel to ARM (or to any other architecture, for that matter.)
Actually it's really impressive because the Air 2 has a triple core while the iPad Pro is only a dual core.
No, no, no, didn't you hear? It's supposed to be a PC replacement. It's supposed to be Microsoft Surface. It's supposed to be running iOSX. It's supposed to make you a grilled cheese sandwich. Apple PROMISED all these things.