I’m the type of user who already has a 1tb iPad Pro but managed to 95% use the space for my pictures, but everyone is right, ipados is not worth the 2,400 price tag for sure, at that rate a MacBook Air/pro is more reasonabl, god forbid you throw in the 350uds price for the magic keyboard!!!!
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Maxed Out M1 12.9-Inch iPad Pro With 5G, 16GB RAM, and 2TB Storage Costs $2,400
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Yeah, it's insane that I can send a file to my iPad, and be completely unable to find it. "Is it in the folder for Procreate files? How about PDFViewer? Maybe it went to Documents? Well, let me search the file system... oh right, there's no way to search the file system..."
I wonder how many concurrent instances of Audio Modeling’s instruments will this run compared to the 2020… one way to find out!
That’s what the Files app is for, you can do everything with your ipad internal storage that way, etc. It’s a like PC behind the scenes What I hate is the fact that my files get deleted there first and choose ICloud storage over physical storage
I was having such a good day and you have to remind me of that. Cruel.
And this is the kind of thing that makes me slowly back away from Apple as my technology provider of choice....
I get "there are pros who will gladly pay for this", but it reinforces the idea that Apple thinks iOS is a full-fledged computing solution (as they do less and less with substantial OS X updates).
I remember paying a bit north of $1000 to have a nicely configured iPad Pro back when it first came out. I kind of regretting spending that much for it, even though I kept it for years and got some use out of it. When I finally resold it, I never bought another one and I really haven't missed it much. It was nice for the time-frame when I was commuting to work on a train every day and read the daily news, listened to my music, and checked my email/web surfed on it while in transit. Also nice when I was already in bed and just wanted to grab it off the nightstand to check something or other. But it never worked any good as a true laptop substitute for me. Everything was a compromise .... like its keyboard not really letting me do everything I needed in an app, so had to keep touching things on the screen combined with typing.
I just started trying out one of the new Lenovo Chromebooks aimed at the Enterprise (vs the cheap plastic, entry-level ones aimed at school kids). I can't help but feel like ChromeOS is more parallel to using iOS as my computing platform than anything else ... and it's FAR cheaper.
I get "there are pros who will gladly pay for this", but it reinforces the idea that Apple thinks iOS is a full-fledged computing solution (as they do less and less with substantial OS X updates).
I remember paying a bit north of $1000 to have a nicely configured iPad Pro back when it first came out. I kind of regretting spending that much for it, even though I kept it for years and got some use out of it. When I finally resold it, I never bought another one and I really haven't missed it much. It was nice for the time-frame when I was commuting to work on a train every day and read the daily news, listened to my music, and checked my email/web surfed on it while in transit. Also nice when I was already in bed and just wanted to grab it off the nightstand to check something or other. But it never worked any good as a true laptop substitute for me. Everything was a compromise .... like its keyboard not really letting me do everything I needed in an app, so had to keep touching things on the screen combined with typing.
I just started trying out one of the new Lenovo Chromebooks aimed at the Enterprise (vs the cheap plastic, entry-level ones aimed at school kids). I can't help but feel like ChromeOS is more parallel to using iOS as my computing platform than anything else ... and it's FAR cheaper.
The current ecosystem as-is, I agree. But we've seen what the M1 chip can do and bringing it to iPad Pro could lead to a promising future. With a port of Rosetta 2 over to the iPadOS, I foresee it coming into the Surface Pro equivalent that it likes to think it is.
Cheers for the reminder, you just cured me of any desire at all to upgrade.
Best hardware, ultra limited software.
If it has the same chip, memory and storage, why can't I run MacOS on it? Id be a buyer if I could actually get rid of my laptop.
It’s all about need. If the MacBook, with “free” keyboard & trackpad came with unlimited cellular data then I’d think about getting a MacBook. Since I rely heavily on cellular data and never needed to consider WiFi, it’s the iPad for me. Both great devices.
I definitely don’t need or want a maxed out 2TB iPad Pro 12.9”, but I do want and will be ordering a cellular 256GB version, trading in my 2018 12.9” model. I’ve considered it to be one of the best computing devices I’ve owned, better even than the 2011 MacBook Air I had, which was also a ground breaking device for Apple. Maybe I could justify getting an even lower 128GB version, and buy one of the new iMacs as my office device.
Hope they planning to add a desktop mode to ipados 15, with proper external display support, and mouse support that works same like macos 
they could even have so its possible use the ipad screen as a virtual keyboard trackpad for the external display for times dont have bluetooth accesories for it 🤔
Then just unplug external display and use it in regular tablet mode.
So not macos but a ipados with tablet/desktop modes and with a files app that is same like finder
they could even have so its possible use the ipad screen as a virtual keyboard trackpad for the external display for times dont have bluetooth accesories for it 🤔Then just unplug external display and use it in regular tablet mode.
So not macos but a ipados with tablet/desktop modes and with a files app that is same like finder
I was considering an ipad pro but this is really more money than I expected. I think the iPad Air is more in my price range for my use case.
Yes, it’s expensive, but these fully loaded models are not going to be what most of us buy. Having the option should we want it is a good thing.
It’s possible, but there’s nothing to show that it’s viable as a product. A cool tech demo, yeah, maybe like the limited edition desktop Apple made awhile back
Touch isn’t for everyone. I’m sure there were folks that used to buy computers with mice and then toss the mice because they just never “got” them.
With the magic keyboard with trackpad, the only way you can use the ipad is on landscape mode, believe it or not I flip between my desktop and other devices and pretend to touch the screen, sometimes it’s just as easy and you can’t go back.
I use my iPad Pro full time for work. My time and ability to output the best possible work are far more valuable than a few thousand bucks. I benefit from the best tools I can afford and while a maxed out iPad Pro may be overkill for the typical user, I’ll be ordering the top of the line iPad Pro 12.9” as the centrepiece of my professional toolset.
Any bets that maybe Parallels will come out with a hyper visor that enables Linux, Windows, macOS to run in a walled garden on the ipad. Would make this machine a truly flexible device!
iPad Pro needs 16" version to fulfill the pro line as in competition with the Cintiq Series of Wacom. As a pro artist, 16" would do great with a laptop or iMac to accompany. A magnetic stand like iMac 24" stand or iPad Pro magic keyboard stand would also help to use it as a standalone desktop or laptop replacement, perhaps as a second pen-abled monitor next to iMac.
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Might as well buy a MacBook and get the full computer functionality. I do like the camera feature tho
It would work fine with the Magic Keyboard. Detach for switching from macOS to iPadOS mode.