Some of you are delusional...

[driftless]

Sorry, I wasn't thinking of the current Air, I view that as a student's machine. I was thinking of machines like the nMP when it was introduced.

 

[TheRealAlex]

...if you think the pro will replace your laptop/desktop. Lot of threads and comments referring to the iPad pro replacing your current laptop/desktop and I just don't understand how people can think that. It will run with iOS not a full OS like the surface does.

I'm in the IT field and I love my iPad for lounging on the couch and surfing the web or playing games on the toilet. However, that's where it stops. No MS suite, Adobe suite, or real programs in general. The off chance that one of these programs has an app for iOS will be functionally limited to a word viewer or something of that nature.

The age of the tablet is dying and the more time apple wastes with this 13 inch candy crush player the more people will move to a "hybrid" like the surface 3/4 running a full windows 10 OS that can double as a tablet.

Here's a pov from a web designer...your meeting a client and you bring the surface you can load up dreamweaver, Photoshop, or any other program and make changes on the spot. With the iPad pro all you can do is take notes while playing hill climb.

tldr: Put OS X on this new iPad so we can do different things other than play bubble pop games.

100% Correct i'll be purchasing a Surface Pro 4 (it can do everything the iPad Pro can and more) But I iwll still be keeping my iPhone 6 and there room for an iPad Air 3 If it has 3d Force Touch

 

[JAT]

Anyways I'm the OP and I just want to say I didn't mean to offend anyone.

Maybe you shouldn't use words like "delusional" if offense is not meant.

 

[Scott6666]

I thought the retina Macbook IS the iPad with OSx.

It's pretty close to that. Only thing is that the keyboard does not detach or rotate out of the way.

 

[Dave245]

I remember when the iPad first came out "it's just a bigger iPhone" "it will never take off" they said, fast forward to now and the iPad is the most successful modern tablet. The iPad Pro is an extension of it, I don't think the intention is to totally replace the PC, it's an extension of it, some things are better suited to tablets while others are better suited to PC computers, for example OS X would be terrible (just like Windows 8) on touch screen devices. iOS is much better suited for it, the early reviews have praised the Apple Pencil and what it can do. I really think the iPad Pro is a start but it's not for everyone. You either like it or you don't.

 

[sracer]

I thought the retina Macbook IS the iPad with OSx.

It's pretty close to that. Only thing is that the keyboard does not detach or rotate out of the way.

Not it isn't. Not even close.

 

[NT1440]

I'm in the IT field

Then you should ****ing know better than to think that what you do with a computer is what 90% of people these days do. I'm in IT too, I constantly have to use VM's and resources that aren't designed to use on a tablet.

Guess who doesn't have those needs? EVERYONE ELSE that my job requires me to support.

Why is it that the nerds always think that their needs are consumer needs?


*Nerds not being used an an insult here (I'm in that group), it's a descriptor of users who have technical knowledge above that of the normal consumer

 

[S.B.G]

Moderator note: This thread has run its course and has created lot of bickering and moderator work.

Closed.