That's a good way of looking at it. I definitely care more about the tablet aspect of it. The notebook use is bonus, but definitely not as important.
How did you wrote this with the pencil?
Mac rumors recognize the pencil?
Recently I sold my iPad Air 2 in order to try a "so-called" hybrid as I always desired to replace both my tablet and mac for one device when I'm on-the-go. So I bought a Surface Pro 4 and oh boy what a big remorse I had. Aside from all the bugs with Windows 10 which cost me an entire day installing/re-installing drivers, the user experience was simply poor. Sure, it was a working pc but the tablet part of it was just plain awful. Being awful I mean, battery couldn't last more than 5 hours in tablet mode, lack of optimized apps, clumsy form factor for reading and bug with sleep mode which pretty much turns off the device. After having the Surface Pro 4 for a few days I realized I just had bought a "boring PC", a device which is an average computer and a poor tablet, a device without any focus with a ridiculous interface. All in all, I returned it and with the refund I decided to get an iPad Pro 9.7 with the Smart Keyboard. What a difference! The hardware (mainly the amazing new screen) just screams quality and the experience is so much more focused and fluid, no reboots out of nowhere, no painful updates which take hours to be installes, it simply works. Of course I was expecting it as I had used an iPad Air 2 for 2 years and it never disappointed, I just never felt compelled to work much with it (always forgot to charge my keyboard haha). The improvements on the new iPad Pro for me were totally worth the upgrade. I've been working quite intensively with it on-the-go (preparing presentations, analysing data in excel, writing my thesis, browsing papers, writing here on macrumors hehe) in a way that is so much more fun than a conventional PC. At home I use my 15" rMBP for more intense data analysis with software only available for OS X.
So, what is your experience with the iPad Pro (9.7 or 12) so far? Have you tried any "hybrid" before?
It also depends on what is 'work.' In my case, I need software that is simply not available for iPad. But if I just used MS office (which is very nice for iPad), I can see that I could rely on an iPad pro only.Right now I'm on the fence of getting an iPad pro 12.9 or surface pro 4.
Value for money and usability seems to sway more towards the surface pro.
iPad pro 128GB $850 + $100 for pen. No keyboard but I have a spare apple bluetooth one. $1008
Surface pro 4 128GB with keyboard $1015
Those are with some discounts.
My thing is 99% of the time I will use the device just for browsing, reading, watching media, etc.. While not needed as I have a beast of a computer at home and a decent laptop for the go. I do like that with a surface I can do things like install full apps to get work done.
I just miss having native network access to my desktop computers.
I bought FileBrowser back when it first came out, and found it more than adequate for network access. It doesn't need to be native to work well.
I bought FileBrowser back when it first came out, and found it more than adequate for network access. It doesn't need to be native to work well.
So its not for your work for sure. But are millions out ther writers,artists normal people with normal or low usage..Seems to me the people saying they don't need a Windows OS for their daily use don't rely on windows based business applications that don't exist in the IOS vault. As an IT company our people use Labtech and Connectwise to manage our customers IT and that can't be done efficiently from any IOS device. Also, using RDP to get into a windows machine is a work around and not a solution. I love my Ipad Pro but to think I could solely use it on a daily work basis would bring serious limitations. I don't use a Surface Pro but an HP Spectra 360 (i7) and it's been great.
Also, yes those two applications do exist in IOS in a limited fashion with greatly scaled back capacity.
So there is a file explorer for ipad? How is it? Its ok, can apple make a default one for ios10? It is usefull for many people?I don't understand why my iPad with File Explorer or my Windows PC can't log in to my Mac though. I have file sharing enabled but password gets rejected. Am I missing something?
Edit: I got it. I had to click on options in File Sharing and enabled Windows File Sharing. But it is weird that I need to do that for the iPad to connect.
I realized I just had bought a "boring PC", a device which is an average computer and a poor tablet, a device without any focus with a ridiculous interface. All in all, I returned it and with the refund I decided to get an iPad Pro 9.7
the ability to remote into servers for my job.
It's an app called File Explorer. There's a limited free version too.So its not for your work for sure. But are millions out ther writers,artists normal people with normal or low usage..
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So there is a file explorer for ipad? How is it? Its ok, can apple make a default one for ios10? It is usefull for many people?
So its not for your work for sure. But are millions out ther writers,artists normal people with normal or low usage..
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So there is a file explorer for ipad? How is it? Its ok, can apple make a default one for ios10? It is usefull for many people?
out there are more children and old people (not IT people)and normal people (not IT) that are better with an ipad because its very easy to understand and use.
for proff there is osx or windows, there is desktop or laptops, but i guess the things change for artists with this pencil that really is a wonderful device and with procreate is a combo that few can match
so we have people in IT company, that use osx or windows vs children+old people+normal/casual people+artists so i think apple is getting some of them from the old legacy with very old laptop or desktop that are used just for mail/browse/music/photos/drawing
It also depends on what is 'work.' In my case, I need software that is simply not available for iPad. But if I just used MS office (which is very nice for iPad), I can see that I could rely on an iPad pro only.
That's why I mentioned the Dr.'s Clinic. In the business world (non IT people) the only companies I see using IOS as a primary tool would be like a point of sale system at a retail location. We see OSX out there for writers, CAD people and artists.