Replacing MacBook Pro with iPad Pro

[davygee]

Photoshop on the IPad Pro? Please point me to something stating this will be available, I'd like to see it. Based on what I've read, if your workflow includes PS - you need to look at some other device than the IPad Pro.

I doubt we will see a fully fledged version of PS on the iPad Pro, but you never know. Have you heard of Affinity? They have both Photo and Designer and they are comparable with PS and Illustrator. They currently retail for £40 and they are expected to announce iPad versions of their software shortly.

I'm sure when they do, Adobe won't want to allow a smaller company sell a comparable piece of software on the iPad Pro without releasing a version of Illustrator/Photoshop to compete.

 

[jazz1]

I am selling my 2013 rMPB 15 and ordering a 128GB LTE iPad Pro. I already have aDell M3800 so ill pickup a 27" 4K for that too. Selling my iPad Air too.

Interesting move. I'm thinking about the same thing regarding my work late 2008 Macbook Pro. Let us know how well this works out for you.

 

[Sym0]

Interesting move. I'm thinking about the same thing regarding my work late 2008 Macbook Pro. Let us know how well this works out for you.

Sure thing, I made the first move by migrating 60GB of photos out of 'photos' and currently in the process of moving all my iTunes media (which I didn't have to - you can just get some HFS drivers for windows and point iTunes to the same external drive, its just pickups where OSX left off). I have elected to transfer it off to a temp drive, reformat the external 2TB to NTFS and rebuild it manually. Cleaner and safer this way.

Just waiting for Sunday arvo to show up so I can sling the Mac and iPad on ebay. I find people tend to impulse buy more on a Sunday afternoon (something to do with going to work the next day).

 

[jazz1]

Sure thing, I made the first move by migrating 60GB of photos out of 'photos' and currently in the process of moving all my iTunes media (which I didn't have to - you can just get some HFS drivers for windows and point iTunes to the same external drive, its just pickups where OSX left off). I have elected to transfer it off to a temp drive, reformat the external 2TB to NTFS and rebuild it manually. Cleaner and safer this way.

Just waiting for Sunday arvo to show up so I can sling the Mac and iPad on ebay. I find people tend to impulse buy more on a Sunday afternoon (something to do with going to work the next day).

One thing I did not immediately think of for work is printing. Right now there are no printers that support IOS devices where I work. So I'll still have to break out one of my MacBooks to print. I'm trying to print less and reference documents via stored .pdf files. Few in my work group have tablets, so i still have to do handouts for administrator meetings. It is a shame really to print docs that get tossed into the recycle bin after a few minutes of reference.

 

[pika2000]

Why I want to use an iPad as a "laptop":
- Portability
- Certain things are easier to get done due to the kind of apps available that don't exist on OS X
- MS Office is already here

Why I cannot replace my Macbook (Air/Pro) with an iPad yet:
- Adobe is forcing users to pay for its cloud service, thus my Adobe lightroom workflow will still require my Mac
- Until all devices can reliably communicate with each other wirelessly, and fast, I still need those ports and SD card slot
- Even if my own stuff are iOS oriented already, everybody else around me are not (heck, I still have people wanting to share files with me via USB stick, despite the numerous cloud options available today). You will be surprised how many people that don't even comprehend the ability to do collaboration using Google doc/Office online (and some of these people work in tech companies).