So Incredibly Impressed By iPad Pro.

[RedOrchestra]

... finally gave up. It was taking up too much of my time ripping and converting.

Couldn't agree more.
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No one uses 3D Touch....

Actually, from what I can see, no one knows how to use 3D Touch ... probably the lack of Apps being the reason.

 

[sracer]

I used to do the same but finally gave up. It was taking up too much of my time ripping and converting. I pretty much stopped buy things I liked and only buy things I love. I just make sure the BluRay is in the format I want. Everything else, I pay the streaming services.

That's probably the greatest difference. I'm not a digital hoarder. I'm selective about the things that I want in my personal media collection. If it is important enough for me to own, then I buy the physical media. There are other things that are just consumable that are watch-once. I don't buy those items. That's what subscription services like Netflix and Hulu are for.

 

[Foggydog]

The Apple keyboard is much lighter. I think the Logitech one weighs almost as much as the iPad itself. Also, the Smart Keyboard just snaps on and off with the magnets, the Logitech is a case that's much harder to take on and off.

But the Logitech has backlights, more function keys, and probably better key feel.

Thank you Night Spring. I will look closer at the Apple keyboard.

 

[alecgold]

That's probably the greatest difference. I'm not a digital hoarder. I'm selective about the things that I want in my personal media collection. If it is important enough for me to own, then I buy the physical media. There are other things that are just consumable that are watch-once. I don't buy those items. That's what subscription services like Netflix and Hulu are for.

I'm no hoarder neither, digital nor physical, I try to loose as much "weight" as possible and keep my possessions to a minimum. I don't care much for music but got a free premium Spotify with my fiber optic internet. Movies, video's, blueray nor series don't get much love from me either. Only thing I have splurged on are books, around 8000 of them, all digital. And the few I couldn't get digital, I scanned and OCRed them myself. Takes 5Gb so I can store it on every device or cloud as well.

OT: Having the 12.9 myself, and I was really flabbergasted how much I could do with an IPAD. For crying out loud, it's a bloody consuming device. And I'm not consuming, I'm creating texts, filling applications, making notes, minutes and reminders. Business stuff. But between PDF Expert 5, Goodnotes, Microsoft's excellent Office suit, Slack and Ullyses I'm often more productive on my iPad that I would have been on my Mac.
So far the only things I go back to my Mac for are really badly scanned 1.5Gb & 500+ page PDF's that can't be OCR'ed and large spreadsheets. I also haven't found a good solution for OCR'ing so far.
But everything else has been really great.
And I see it others around me as well. My father does everything with an iPad Air 1, my wife has an old 2009 MBP, but her replacement is going to be one or another iPad. Friends that started a study didn't buy a computer but an iPad.
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Thank you Night Spring. I will look closer at the Apple keyboard.

Night Spring is right, Apple Smart Keyboard is really good. Key for me was that it is spaced exactly the same as all other Apple keyboards (I've got the 12.9"). Travel isn't very deep, but it doesn't hinder me, it's really slim, it's relative quiet, I can't forget to charge it. Only gripe some people have is the lack of function keys (I don'it miss them) and the fact that it's not backlit. But if it's all dark I'm not going to write a new novel, I can touchtype and if needs must there is always the on-screen iOS keyboard.

I had the Belking Qode Pro Ultimate Bluetooth keyboard for an iPad Air 1 and that blasted thing dropped it's connection every 5-15 minutes, needing to remove it, resync it and then get back to where I was. There was a firmware update but that could only be done with a device that had iOS 9.1 on it. Guess what? I had 9.2! "Best" of all was that wretched thing was exactly as expensive as my 12.9" Smart Keyboard. Total waste of money. I don't mind spending a bit more, but then I expect to get a really good device.
(Still very frustrated over this, can you tell? )
Then again, my regular Apple Bluetooth keyboards never dropped their connection unless the battery was empty, but even then it would warn before. So BT-keyboards can be good and reliable as well.

 

[Abazigal]

The Apple keyboard is much lighter. I think the Logitech one weighs almost as much as the iPad itself. Also, the Smart Keyboard just snaps on and off with the magnets, the Logitech is a case that's much harder to take on and off.

But the Logitech has backlights, more function keys, and probably better key feel.

You are actually making me feel very tempted to pick up the Apple Smart Keyboard now. I stopped using my old Zaggfolio keyboard with my initial iPad 3 for both the aforementioned reasons - it added a lot of bulk and weight to what was already a fairly bulky and heavy tablet, and it was cumbersome to remove when all I wanted was a tablet.

 

[gorkt]

Yes, I am really impressed with this iPad, far more than I expected to be. I love, love, love the Smart Keyboard. There is something about the tactile feel of the keys that is really satisfying, and the size is actually perfect for my little hands. I haven't used the pencil too much yet, but I am going to start taking notes with it next week at work. It really can do much of what a laptop can do plus things a laptop can't.

 

[Kal-037]

Love the Pro, drawing is so awesome to do, I was so accustomed to doing drawings by hand then scanning into computer and digitally coloring/painting (it was a huge pain.) Now I don't have to do that. I DO HOPE that Adobe gets off their (swearword) and makes a proper iOS Photoshop though. lol


Kal.

 

[capathy21]

I love posts like this. I love seeing other people out there such as myself that are using their iPads as their "computer replacement".

Exactly, count me as another.

 

[Tech198]

Got my iPad Pro 9.7 tonight, it's replacing my old hp laptop from late 2013. No interest in Smart Keyboard or pencil though.

So, what happens if u need to restore ? don't worry about syncing anything ?

I was thinking of upgrading my Air 2, see if i could get used to larger display. since 90% of my work i can easily do on a tablet... I guess i still use a Mac, because i've never really transitioned to a tablet fully.

The only exception would be VMWare Fusion.

 

[9646829]

So, what happens if u need to restore ? don't worry about syncing anything ?

I was thinking of upgrading my Air 2, see if i could get used to larger display. since 90% of my work i can easily do on a tablet... I guess i still use a Mac, because i've never really transitioned to a tablet fully.

The only exception would be VMWare Fusion.

I have a £2,000 gaming pc that I built last summer, the laptop and now my iPad Pro is purely for when I don't want to be in my office.

 

[alecgold]

... since 90% of my work i can easily do on a tablet... I guess i still use a Mac, because i've never really transitioned to a tablet fully...

I did it almost cold turkey. It took time and effort to transition my workflow, habits and find new apps. I spend three long days changing to iCloud, finding the right apps and to find out how I could make everything work. Then a week with a bit less productivity and after that I pretty much settled in iOS. But after 14 years on Windows the transition to Mac OS was much harder. And when I think about it, I'm now 11 years on Mac OS and this transition was much smoother. It does take some time to get adjusted to an new iOS that has a different philosophy behind it.

 

[Night Spring]

Thank you Night Spring. I will look closer at the Apple keyboard.

Night Spring is right, Apple Smart Keyboard is really good.

You are actually making me feel very tempted to pick up the Apple Smart Keyboard now.

For full disclosure, I don't actually have the Smart Keyboard myself. I had an Apple Bluetoth keyboard that came with an iMac, so I didn't buy the Smart Keyboard, thinking I would use the Bluetooth keyboard with my 12.9 iPad Pro when I wanted to do a lot of typing. But I'm finding I don't use it as often as I thought. For the most part, I'm finding that the on screen keyboard is good enough for me. If I were getting a keyboard, I'd probably get the Smart Keyboard, because portability is important to me, but then, in the interests of portability, the best solution is no external keyboard.

 

[sracer]

I did it almost cold turkey. It took time and effort to transition my workflow, habits and find new apps. I spend three long days changing to iCloud, finding the right apps and to find out how I could make everything work. Then a week with a bit less productivity and after that I pretty much settled in iOS. But after 14 years on Windows the transition to Mac OS was much harder. And when I think about it, I'm now 11 years on Mac OS and this transition was much smoother. It does take some time to get adjusted to an new iOS that has a different philosophy behind it.

Excellent post. There needs to be a thread where people who have transitioned from a traditional notebook to an iPad as their primary device describe how they did a task on a notebook and how that task is now performed on the iPad. We're all thinking about our tasks in a different way, from a different perspective that could help others.

It's sad that when talking about the iPad Pro as a "notebook replacement" it generally comes down to being able to do task "A" in the identical manner and method. The thought goes, if it can be done exactly the same way on the tablet as a notebook, then "yes" it is a notebook replacement if not, then it isn't.

That is one way of looking at it but I don't think it is the best way to look at it.

 

[spiderman0616]

Excellent post. There needs to be a thread where people who have transitioned from a traditional notebook to an iPad as their primary device describe how they did a task on a notebook and how that task is now performed on the iPad. We're all thinking about our tasks in a different way, from a different perspective that could help others.

It's sad that when talking about the iPad Pro as a "notebook replacement" it generally comes down to being able to do task "A" in the identical manner and method. The thought goes, if it can be done exactly the same way on the tablet as a notebook, then "yes" it is a notebook replacement if not, then it isn't.

That is one way of looking at it but I don't think it is the best way to look at it.

I had so many preconceived notions about all the things you supposedly can't do on an iPad. I was wrong about 99% of them. There are literally 2 things in my workflow that I still need my laptop for and they are both incredibly minor things that should be remedied sometime this year.

 

[Foggydog]

My biggest thing that I want from my 12.9 is to be able to use either my already made templets in OS X pages and fill them out on the 12.9, or easily remake them on IOS. Actually, I really only need the 9.7 but as a trucker, I like to watch both movies and youtube vids on the road. Thats where the real-estate comes into play.

Also, regarding the smart keyboard, the extent of my typing is the two finger chicken peck, but I still want a good keyboard since I plan on keeping my IPP for about 4 years at least.

 

[Rogifan]

The only thing I still need my crappy laptop for is when I'm ripping videos from YouTube and loading them on my iOS device through iTunes. Only reason I rip is for things I want to keep that I think YouTube might take down.

 

[Night Spring]

It's sad that when talking about the iPad Pro as a "notebook replacement" it generally comes down to being able to do task "A" in the identical manner and method. The thought goes, if it can be done exactly the same way on the tablet as a notebook, then "yes" it is a notebook replacement if not, then it isn't.

Yup. I finally managed to cut out my laptop from my work flow by deciding to deliver my work in PDF instead of the older Word doc format. I'd been searching for a reliable way to convert from Pages or docx to doc while keeping formatting intact, and not finding a good solution. The only way to get a properly formatted doc file was to boot up my laptop to run an older version of Word, and fix the formatting there. But then I decided, my client doesn't need to make further changes to the document, so they will be ok if I send them PDF! A different way of getting things done, but now I can do my work entirely on my iPad.
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Also, regarding the smart keyboard, the extent of my typing is the two finger chicken peck, but I still want a good keyboard since I plan on keeping my IPP for about 4 years at least.

Exactly how much typing do you do? Have you considered just using the onscreen keyboard?

 

[Foggydog]

Yup. I finally managed to cut out my laptop from my work flow by deciding to deliver my work in PDF instead of the older Word doc format. I'd been searching for a reliable way to convert from Pages or docx to doc while keeping formatting intact, and not finding a good solution. The only way to get a properly formatted doc file was to boot up my laptop to run an older version of Word, and fix the formatting there. But then I decided, my client doesn't need to make further changes to the document, so they will be ok if I send them PDF! A different way of getting things done, but now I can do my work entirely on my iPad.
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Exactly how much typing do you do? Have you considered just using the onscreen keyboard?

I do very very little typing. With that said, I will set up my iPad first and try it without the keyboard first.
If everything works well, then no external keyboard. I do still have down time between loads where I am doing a lot of surfing, and that might be where the keyboard will come into play.
As I do with most things, I do as much research as possible when I get close to purchasing. I have watched the development of the iPad since 2010, but was never quit sure that it could replace my MBP. but now, I am quit sure that it can.

 

[Night Spring]

I do still have down time between loads where I am doing a lot of surfing, and that might be where the keyboard will come into play.

For surfing? As in typing in searches and urls? For that kind of thing, I find the onscreen keyboard more than adequate. For typing forum posts like these, it's possible you might want the keyboard, though personally I've gotten quite used to just using onscreen keyboard for most tasks.

 

[Foggydog]

I do have several templets that I have in OS X that i want to use on the iPad if possible. For those, I still am not sure if the keyboard will be necessary or not. Time will tell.

 

[alecgold]

The only thing I still need my crappy laptop for is when I'm ripping videos from YouTube and loading them on my iOS device through iTunes. Only reason I rip is for things I want to keep that I think YouTube might take down.

I can do that with my iPhone with video d/l I think I could do the same with goodplayer.