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iPad Pro IPP plus smart keyboard plus pencil. So much more than a MB Air and iPad!
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Nope, definitely not stuck on Windows. If I can find a Mac Mini for around $400 or $500, I'm sold. That was actually my first thought. Just have to find one for a good price.
I use an app called splash top 2. It works so well it's ridiculous. There's almost no lag at all. The app has all kinds of accommodations to make navigating the UI on Mac OS X easier like you can add scroll wheels or hold down two fingers to scroll web pages and stuff. This is me remoting into my Mac to practice programming. Works well!
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Money. I can get around $900 for my rMBP. If I can get a $400 Mac Mini, that's $500. But there's probably a decent chance I'll end up staying with the rMBP because it'll hurt my heart to sell it.
I m still thinking of getting IPP but my experiments so far with my mini2 for the stuff I do on the mac which I can't do as well on iOS has not been successful. Using Excel and Word are not the same as the Mac and definitely not like the PC alternatives, Omnifocus andOmniOutliner are better, but still problematic in some areas, then text editing compared to BBEdit or markdown editing is not up to spec, how do you get your nicely formatted data out into another app, there are too many issues. Also the keyboard is a must for a lot of work, cannot write pages and pages of notes with on screen.
There are many great things about iOS, especially the simplicity of the os and the pencil is also appealing, but why would I bother remotely connecting to my MBA to do some coding, or say rip a CD when I can just go upstairs or across the room and pick it up? When I find an answer, Ill get the Pro.
There are many great things about iOS, especially the simplicity of the os and the pencil is also appealing, but why would I bother remotely connecting to my MBA to do some coding, or say rip a CD when I can just go upstairs or across the room and pick it up? When I find an answer, Ill get the Pro.
Hi All,
I am in the fortunate position to have an iPad pro, Macbook & MacBook Pro 15" and a surface pro 3 as of yesterday.
The way Apple makes their devices I feel is for specific use and I have concluded for my use a laptop and iPad are the ultimate combination. I can see how the iPad pro will suffice for a lot of users with basic internet use, email and word processing but for a design professional as myself it cannot replace the laptop at present.
Hence I feel the combination for me [hoping anyway] is the iPad pro and the redesigned 13" MBP [of 14 is better]. This allows for all uses, extra power when required in a still portable manner [plus can hook up to my monitor when needed].
Using the Surface Pro 3 [yes I know the 4 is better - but not by a huge amount], allowed me to conclude as many others have that it is a compromised piece of technology - not as good a laptop as the MB and not as good tablet as the iPad.
Of course all of this is expensive, having the 2 devices, however if the money is fine then my personal advice would be to get the MBP and iPad pro for my professional design uses [CAD,Rhino, adobe suite, sketching, evernote, internet, outlook mainly]. IF CAD & adobe were taken out the list then the iPad pro would certainly suffice. It is a fantastic piece of technology and the pencil is my dream device. It just needs to go that extra distance which may be a while away for my requirements, but for most I can see it being the replacement device Tim Cook alluded to.
I am in the fortunate position to have an iPad pro, Macbook & MacBook Pro 15" and a surface pro 3 as of yesterday.
The way Apple makes their devices I feel is for specific use and I have concluded for my use a laptop and iPad are the ultimate combination. I can see how the iPad pro will suffice for a lot of users with basic internet use, email and word processing but for a design professional as myself it cannot replace the laptop at present.
Hence I feel the combination for me [hoping anyway] is the iPad pro and the redesigned 13" MBP [of 14 is better]. This allows for all uses, extra power when required in a still portable manner [plus can hook up to my monitor when needed].
Using the Surface Pro 3 [yes I know the 4 is better - but not by a huge amount], allowed me to conclude as many others have that it is a compromised piece of technology - not as good a laptop as the MB and not as good tablet as the iPad.
Of course all of this is expensive, having the 2 devices, however if the money is fine then my personal advice would be to get the MBP and iPad pro for my professional design uses [CAD,Rhino, adobe suite, sketching, evernote, internet, outlook mainly]. IF CAD & adobe were taken out the list then the iPad pro would certainly suffice. It is a fantastic piece of technology and the pencil is my dream device. It just needs to go that extra distance which may be a while away for my requirements, but for most I can see it being the replacement device Tim Cook alluded to.
If the surface 3 is compromised so is the ipp. However the sp4, is the ultimate in Windows portability which makes up for whatever you think might be compromised about the sp3. I think the ipp and sp4 is a perfect combo. It's all in your use case which determines what device is compromised and why.
Editorial, Ulysses (way too expensive!), Matcha. My favourite is textastic but there is no good grep.
Getting nicely structured md out into something like OneNote is virtually impossible. Export in ulysses only as pdf or docx and not how I like it (compared to FoldingText and the excellent Marked2 app on mac). Too many compromises but I am hopeful they will be solved eventually.
I would tend to disagree as all the elements I feel are the compromise are in the Surface pro 4. Same apps, same Windows. I would have thought it would be either SP4 or IPP but not both.
I agree the IPP is compromised as a laptop but as a tablet it is great and so are the apps that go with it. All the apps I use are designed for tablet use on a tablet whilst the same cannot be said for the SP4. The SP4 is fantastic hardware, and I do prefer it overall to the IPP [ kickstand and dock especially] however windows is the real let down still for a hybrid product.
This is why I said MBP [or MB if gets a good speed bump next] and IPP are the ones for me. Each to their own though
For me I don't care about the tablet aspect of Windows, I care about the weight, size and powerful cpu; having the additional ports are great as well.I would tend to disagree as all the elements I feel are the compromise are in the Surface pro 4. Same apps, same Windows. I would have thought it would be either SP4 or IPP but not both.
I agree the IPP is compromised as a laptop but as a tablet it is great and so are the apps that go with it. All the apps I use are designed for tablet use on a tablet whilst the same cannot be said for the SP4. The SP4 is fantastic hardware, and I do prefer it overall to the IPP [ kickstand and dock especially] however windows is the real let down still for a hybrid product.
This is why I said MBP [or MB if gets a good speed bump next] and IPP are the ones for me. Each to their own though
I do more than email and Netflix; so having literally a desktop replacement in tablet format is superb. Windows 10 works well enough as a tablet if desired.
Just an update. I added the cover to the back of my IPP because it already has a pretty decent scratch on it. But with The back cover, keyboard and IPP combined this thing feels like it weighs as much as a small laptop.
Yup, that's what I feared, that adding any back cover to the iPP would make it weigh as much as a retina MacBook! For the sake of lightness. I'm willing to live with scratches on the case, but my problem is with the edges when I'm holding the iPP in my hands. I want a bumper like they had for the iPhone 4.
I would not say as heavy as a Retina MBP but easily as much as an Air 13 I would say. Have not weighed both officially to compare yet.
I was looking into purchasing the app, and reading the app description. It basically says that, after buying the app, you could still only remote access machines in your local network. (I don't see why one need to access *local* machines, as they are right next to you.)
To go beyond (e.g., to access my work desktop from home over the Internet), I need to pay a monthly or yearly subscription?! Wow! No thanks.
I use an app called Screens. It's a one time purchase and works brilliantly for remote OSX access from iOS.
I don't think that's true for private, individual use. I use Splashtop to remote into my machines away from home and have never paid anything other than for the apps themselves (SP 1 & 2). It has been the best remote desktop app solution I've tried, and I've used a lot of them.
This is actually why when I bought my second iPP (after returning the first and then regretting it) I decided to get a Magic Keyboard rather than the Smart Keyboard cover. I like how light the iPP is for its size, and don't want to ruin that with a bunch of bulky cases. I've never had any serious issues with just using a Smart Cover on any of my iPads, and if worse comes to worst I have AppleCare+. I'd rather have a positive daily experience using my iPP than be frustrated trying to protect it from that one accident.
I found that out the hard way. Bought the app while it on sale for only a buck and loved how I could remote into my Mac on a local wifi network but when I was away at work or Starbucks or something, my Mac wouldn't show up at all. So now I'm on the plan to pay $2 a month for remote access away from home. Totally worth it in my opinion. Just make sure you use wifi away from home and not tether to your phone too much. I tried tethering to my iPhone when I was eating at Pandora last night and it used up a gig of data after only a half hour!
$2 a month, huh? I must be grandfathered into a free plan for private use. That sucks, but really $2 isn't that much for something as useful as Splashtop can be.
yeah now you have to buy the "access anywhere pack" that's either $2 a month or $16 a year. I think it's worth it though. $2 is such a small amount of money every month I wouldn't even notice it being gone out of my account