I run Chrome on my Pro 10.5. I've found the pure web browsing experience to be amazing. Screens pop up and render so fast, and move so smooth. That is compared my work desktop - Windows 10 with top-spec machine with 32GB RAM and latest i7 processor, as well as my own MacBook Air with 8GB RAM. The iPad Pro just crushes them.
Advantage of having a device with desk-top class performance running a mobile OS. I can't wait to try iOS 11 but given I use my iPad for critical work, I'm awaiting the official release.
Yeah, it’s a pretty amazing experience. Had an Air previously, which wasn’t bad, but this is 100x better (PAGES STAY OPEN!). I do 98% of my browsing with it even though I have my gaming PC for the sake of convenience. I’ve never even visited Mac Rumors on my PC
I hate mobile optimized websites, and iPad ruins browsing by not showing desktop site. And no, the other browsers wont cut it. Thinking about ditching iPad lately.
I'm not going to push the "I believe" button I've had air 2 and 10.5 hand in hand. While the browsing is faster than air 2, using the term "way" is all relative. I have an older I7 desktop where browsing seems same or faster than the 10.5 I'd bet the newest surface pro with the I7 is faster at browsing than the 10.5
iCab allows you to switch the user agent to other (desktop) browsers. It also allows native file downloading (I use it to download .mp3s/wavs for sampling), and allows actual fullscreen browsing with gestures. Try it before you decide to ditch iOS.
I want to use safari and not some third party app. Going laptop only instead of iPad plus laptop I think. I dont like to use apps compared to normal browsing, e.g. for youtube etc.
I'd like to see some benchmark report with stats on page loading times, refresh etc. As for third party browsers, I have iCab but really prefer Chrome as I can sync across all of my devices. With the Pro, its pretty fast as it is, and its only a handful of sites that direct me to mobile page so that is really not so inconvenient, at least based on the sites I commonly visit.
To me Safari is the fastest browser out there. Even before switching to Macs I was trying to find Safari to install on my windows PC, alas to no avail.
Why is this amazing? Chrome on your iPad Pro is the same as Chrome or Safari running on an iPhone. A mobile OS browser loading pages requires less data to be transferred, less rendering... add to that, powerful specs, and it is a no-brainer. Note, this is not the difference between loading the mobile version of a page vs. desktop version... it is about the browsers themselves. If you were to customize your Chrome browser on Windows to disable the capabilities that it can do (but a mobile browser can't), you'd see similar performance.
This thread is accurate. I also have the new 2017macbook and 2017 MacBook Pro and strangely enough the 10.5 is faster and is the fastest decide that I own.
All iOS Device (iPhone 5 to the Present iPhone X, iPad 4 to iPad Pro 10.5") are Faster when it comes to browsing. Because Macbook, PC, or Windows run differently even if you're just using a Browser on both Device PC and iOS you won't notice that PC running some backgrounds that aren't there, (java script for example) also on Macbook it entertains a lot of annoying ADVertisements or ADS while iOS has only few to none ads hence making it fastest one.