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It sucks that they don't have the choice of 64GB anymore, so we gotta pick either 32GB or 128GB(I mean there is 256GB as well, but probably that is not necessary to have for many of us). I honestly am not sure if I need 128GB but I picked it, just because they didn't have 64GB, and 32GB seems too small to me. Even you don't put any music and movies, still it's easy to hit around 20GB. I think it's not bad idea to stick with 128GB instead of switching to 32GB, your choice didn't seem wrong to me.

Herein lies most of the forum discussions: each one individual has a different need. Apple cannot possibly cater to tall of us.

When they release the original iPad Pro, lots of folks were complaining of not having a 256Gb option. Certainly it is not for everyone.

Now we will complain that there is no 64Gb option. But no one remembers that the 128Gb option is now $50 bucks cheaper (before you had two steps, $99 each, now it is one step of $149).

When Apple put enormous speaker housings in the iPad Pro folks complained that Apple should have used the space for a larger battery. Now that the iPad Pro 9.7 has "smaller" speakers, folks say the iPad Pro 12.9 has great sound and is probably better than the sound from the 9.7 version.

Apple cannot and will not make gazillions SKUs. Maybe at some point they will BTO for iPad Pros like they do for Macs. Right now, iOS devices are mass market devices (i.e. mainstream) and Apple tries to limit the SKUs (although others complain that their lineup is TOO complex).
 
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Herein lies most of the forum discussions: each one individual has a different need. Apple cannot possibly cater to tall of us.

When they release the original iPad Pro, lots of folks were complaining of not having a 256Gb option. Certainly it is not for everyone.

Now we will complain that there is no 64Gb option. But no one remembers that the 128Gb option is now $50 bucks cheaper (before you had two steps, $99 each, now it is one step of $149).

When Apple put enormous speaker housings in the iPad Pro folks complained that Apple should have used the space for a larger battery. Now that the iPad Pro 9.7 has "smaller" speakers, folks say the iPad Pro 12.9 has great sound and is probably better than the sound from the 9.7 version.

Apple cannot and will not make gazillions SKUs. Maybe at some point they will BTO for iPad Pros like they do for Macs. Right now, iOS devices are mass market devices (i.e. mainstream) and Apple tries to limit the SKUs (although others complain that their lineup is TOO complex).


Yeah that is true and all.

However, you must admit that the jump between 32 and 128 Gb is a bit harsh. Personally, I would have been totally fine with 64 GB and I bet many other people aswell. So because Apple knows that for many people 32 GB is just not enough and they need to upgrade they are actually getting 50 bucks more out of the consumer since I think a lot of customers would have settled with 64Gb
 
Yeah that is true and all.

However, you must admit that the jump between 32 and 128 Gb is a bit harsh. Personally, I would have been totally fine with 64 GB and I bet many other people aswell. So because Apple knows that for many people 32 GB is just not enough and they need to upgrade they are actually getting 50 bucks more out of the consumer since I think a lot of customers would have settled with 64Gb

My guess is the 32gb option is only there to keep the entry price lower. 16gb is no longer a viable option moving forward, based on how much space gets taken up with the OS, base apps, and formatting. 32gb suffices for those that only check email and websites for the most part, and possible some of those that go all cloud based.
 
Just be glad you are not one of the 12.9 iPad Pro 1's early adopters they must feel shafted

#1. better Camera
#2. Brighter Display 500nits (thats bright) 25% more colors vibrancy

Personally, I'm not that bothered. These things would have been nice to have, but they probably weren't ready to be placed in the iPP four months ago, and technology always improves.
 
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I keep seeing these ridiculous non sequitur comparisons of iPads to MacBooks, MacBook Air, or so on. It's silly. You can't buy an Apple Notebook that performs on par with an Apple iPad for the same price or even close. iPad performs amazingly within its domain with ridiculously better battery life. Just try watching an HD movie on your 12" MacBook, that will erase your battery. On iPad? You can watch 3-4 in a row easily.

Yes, Macs are more general purpose. That comes at a heavy overhead cost in performance/battery life. It also comes in at a hefty cost in weight, heat, and total price. The closest you can get in terms of size and weight and heat is the 12" MacBook, anything else is a comparison so outside the boundaries of similarity as to make me question your sanity. If you need something from the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro line that you can't get from iPad, comparison between the two is pointless, you know what you need. If iPad is serving your needs, the only even remotely worthwhile comparison is the 12" MacBook so let's have a look.

First, we know from benchmarks that the performance is roughly equal. But, that's just benchmarks. With optimized software, the UX is much better on iPad. The browsing performance, for example, is WAY more enjoyable on iPad than MacBook. The MacBook is painfully underpowered for an OS X machine, unfortunately. Gaming? Well just play Hearthstone on each at full resolutions, or even downres the MacBook to match iPad. It's barely playable on MacBook, and buttery smooth on iPad. There are also way, way more games on iPad than Mac, with a much higher visual/fun quality ratio than Mac as well. What do you do with your iPad? Anything you can do with it will almost certainly be faster, smoother, and generally better than MacBook.

How about pricing then? To be fair, we'll toss in the smart keyboard although it's not required. You can't buy a cellular enabled Mac, and the highest storage available on iPad Pro is 256gb so we'll compare the Wi-Fi iPad Pro 256 with the MacBook 256gb model. The MacBook will have 8GB of ram because that's the lowest you can get. And you need it. OS X, like any desktop OS, is a RAM hog. 8GB is decent. 16GB would be much more comfortable. Still, we're comparing to iPad with 2GB, which amazingly seems to satisfy pretty much everyone's needs except those who think they need 10 browser tabs or more open all the time without reloading, I suppose. Not an important factor.

So what is the price difference? The MacBook weighs in at $1,299 while the iPad Pro is $899 + $150 for the smart keyboard. So the MacBook is $250 more, performs worse on nearly every typical activity they can both do, can not be used without the keyboard, has no touch interface, can not use the Apple Pencil, could not be purchased in a cellular enabled model, has garbage graphics chip, a barely passable Intel CPU, weighs over double the iPad's weight (more similar when the keyboard is accounted for but, again, that's an optional accessory) and most people, though not myself, hate the keyboard on the MacBook.

Again, all of this depends on what you're doing. But, if you can do whatever it is you want to do with your larger screen portable device on an iPad, you're going to get a better machine at a better price.

Frankly, the iPad is a bargain for what it can do when you stop whining and start looking at all of the massive progress the platform has made despite Apple moving slowly in the "pro" aspect of things. The whole Workflows, scripting, productivity arena of apps has made an enormous difference. Yes, you need to know how to use software on a computer and finding exactly your one do-everything app is less likely, but, so what? That is not the ideal way of computing anyway. Modular, interoperable, smaller components tied together gives more flexibility and that's how things are building out on iPad.

Anyway, the main point here is that if the iPad can do what you need, the claims of its value being bad compared to a Mac are utterly specious. Only someone incapable of basic comparison and arithmetic can come to another conclusion.
 
It sucks that they don't have the choice of 64GB anymore, so we gotta pick either 32GB or 128GB(I mean there is 256GB as well, but probably that is not necessary to have for many of us). I honestly am not sure if I need 128GB but I picked it, just because they didn't have 64GB, and 32GB seems too small to me. Even you don't put any music and movies, still it's easy to hit around 20GB. I think it's not bad idea to stick with 128GB instead of switching to 32GB, your choice didn't seem wrong to me.

Same here miss the 64GB variant sorely !
 
#1. Remember 128GB is more like 117 GB some is lost to formatting and some to the OS etc etc.
#2. You can't Flaunt 128GB no one knows or cares.
#3. When i Fill up my 32GB I'll deleted something I do not need.

Just be glad you are not one of the 12.9 iPad Pro 1's early adopters they must feel shafted

#1. better Camera
#2. Brighter Display 500nits (thats bright) 25% more colors vibrancy
#3. Better camera
you get the point.

I don't think large iPad Pro users feel shafted....we have the bigger screen, a more useful split screen, USB 3.0/USB type C, 4 GB of DDR4 ram compared to either 2 GB of DDR3 or DDR4 according to reviews, and a faster processor and gpu....those who feel shafted should be the smaller iPad Pro owners since your device is a faster iPad Air 2 with pencil support....everything else can be done perfectly on the iPad Air 2......;)
 
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