Why would someone with a MacBook and an iPad buy an iPad pro?

I have a lot of Apple products. In the field, while I would love to have my Retina MacBook Pro, it is larger, heavier, and slower to process photos in a quick and wireless fashion. It also doesn't have enough battery life to last the time I need it for. The iPad pro fits that niche very well and with the Apple pencil, it will be a quick post processing session to upload fairly good quality quickly.
 
MacDawg said:
No need to make up reasons to get a new shiny device
Some things I have because I need them
Some things I have because I use them
Some things I have just because I want them
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Why is it that when I reply this to my girlfriend, she looks at me like I'm some kind of crazy person?
 
Jacoblee23 said:
I have a MacBook Pro w/retina 2015 13" and an iPad Air 2. The iPad pro sounds interesting but I don't know why or how I would use an iPad pro. It's too big for just surfing the Internet and my MacBook Pro is a beast already. Is anyone with a MacBook and iPad considering the iPad pro? If so why?
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Because I'm not a power user, I want to finally retire my old 2008 MBP and I want an iPad with a bigger screen than my 16Gb iPad Air 1.
 
dray67 said:
It's shineh, what better reason than that.......

Joking aside price point would be a big thing for me, I've just sold my iPad 4 because I fancy picking up a cheap iPhone 6+ with the release of the S models, but the pro looks great but i simply can't justify having one beyond the reason I had my iPad4 which was light weight computing and a little gaming at what is looking like a £700-£800+ investment.

All I can think about at the moment is XCOM and Baldurs gate on that thing. :D
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Baldurus gate is on ios?
 
Since I cannot buy a MacBook with sim slot, I sold my MacBook Air "13" just to buy a iPad Pro. I will be selling my iPad Air as well. That will leave me with

1) Mac Pro at home
2) 15" MacBook Pro for work and some travel
3) iPad Pro for my shorter travel trips or travel where I'm not presenting

Anytime I can go down 2 and merge them into 1 then I'm good. I was getting pretty good at using my iPad Air for travel, access my files, making small changes to slide decks...there just isn't a good projection solution beyond the Apple TV and I never run into people who have an apple TV in their conference rooms.

If someone made a wireless HDMI dongle that presented an Apple TV like interface I'd buy it. Then I could shove in my dongle and throw the iPad Pro screen to a projector.
 
First, I don't think Apple developed the iPP exclusively for a bigger screen. I really think it's a preview of things to come that no one (?) is thinking about. What about the smart connector? Does anyone really think that it was developed exclusively for a keyboard? So, now, you have a 13" monitor with a smart connector that could be attached, not to JUST a keyboard, but, a monitor-less MBP. Attach the iPP to the base of the "headless" MBP and now you have a fully functioning MBP. Pull the iPP off of the MBP and now you have a fully functioning iPad. So, each is its' own stand-alone product. When attached to the MBP, iPad functionality is "cut-off" and the iPadPro functions only as a monitor. Keeps Apple's promise of not combining the 2 as a single functioning device for both products. But, rather, 2 products that, when attached, or detached......function as 2 separate devices with 2 separate operating systems. Hey, they may not do it......but, I like the idea. :apple:
 
I love Apple products but can't go with the pro. I have a Surface Pro 3 I use for grad school, a 6S Plus and an iPad Air 2.

I love the iPad for its thinness and lightness. I buy my textbooks for school on it, read the newspaper and books and surf web for long periods. The Surface I use to get real work done, 3 screens, heavy office work, file system, take notes with the pen, etc.

Can't think where I'd fit the pro. Too heavy to take place of my air, can't replace my surface for real work. Seems like a great product though for the right situations.
 
westgorge said:
First, I don't think Apple developed the iPP exclusively for a bigger screen. I really think it's a preview of things to come that no one (?) is thinking about. What about the smart connector? Does anyone really think that it was developed exclusively for a keyboard?
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After reading tons of threads about this new device I too am beginning to wonder about the iPad Pro. What is it? What is it meant to be? What is it's intended future? I no longer think it's simply 'just' a bigger iPad with some new features. I feel more and more that it was conceived as to be the catalyst for a new direction in computing. It seems way overpowered to be just an iPad.

I don't think the new Smart Connector is simply to dock it to a keyboard. Going with the single Lightning port an intended 'Pro' device, rather than other available seemingly higher performance ports is intriguing. Is that because the speed and functionality of their Lightning port can be upgraded through updates or is it because high data rate transfer will be the job of the Smart Connector as it was intended? Are there pro level apps for the iPP 's intended use already in the works that will make large file transfer and professional business usage a reality?

This early on, amid rumor and few facts, I think it's very easy to presume it's 'just' a bigger iPad. But once it hits the mainstream, with the apps and functionality it was intended to have, I think why it was conceived in the first place will become apparent.
 
I have a rMBP an iPad, but they're both aged.. I think that while they're still worth something I'm going to sell them both and make off with the iPad Pro 128GB LTE. The way I figure it I can get an almost 1:1 trade off for the iPad with all the accessories and maybe have a bit left over.
 
Codeseven said:
After reading tons of threads about this new device I too am beginning to wonder about the iPad Pro. What is it? What is it meant to be? What is it's intended future? I no longer think it's simply 'just' a bigger iPad with some new features. I feel more and more that it was conceived as to be the catalyst for a new direction in computing. It seems way overpowered to be just an iPad.

I don't think the new Smart Connector is simply to dock it to a keyboard. Going with the single Lightning port an intended 'Pro' device, rather than other available seemingly higher performance ports is intriguing. Is that because the speed and functionality of their Lightning port can be upgraded through updates or is it because high data rate transfer will be the job of the Smart Connector as it was intended? Are there pro level apps for the iPP 's intended use already in the works that will make large file transfer and professional business usage a reality?

This early on, amid rumor and few facts, I think it's very easy to presume it's 'just' a bigger iPad. But once it hits the mainstream, with the apps and functionality it was intended to have, I think why it was conceived in the first place will become apparent.
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I think anyone who'd dismissing just as a bigger iPad is wrong, but at the same time, until it's been out for a while and in the hands of devs who want to code for it and the audience who wants to use it, we won't know for sure what direction it's really going to go in. I'm sure Apple has plans beyond being a better magazine display (as so many of the press photos seem to focus on), but I don't think we'll know what those plans really are until we get iOS 10 and the iPP 2.

As it is, I can't justify getting the iPP, because I have a 13" Macbook Air and an iPad Air 2. I could see the iPP as it currently exists potentially being the next iPad I buy, but maybe by the time I'm ready to get one it'll be the kind of device that can replace both an older tablet and laptop, or maybe the sort of device that can do more than my iPad Air 2, so when I do replace my Macbook Air, I'll be able to use a lower powered Macbook instead. Who knows. Either way the only Apple thing I plan on upgrading with any regularity at this point is my phone. My laptop and iPad will last me for several years.
 
Supermallet said:
As it is, I can't justify getting the iPP, because I have a 13" Macbook Air and an iPad Air 2. I could see the iPP as it currently exists potentially being the next iPad I buy, but maybe by the time I'm ready to get one it'll be the kind of device that can replace both an older tablet and laptop, or maybe the sort of device that can do more than my iPad Air 2, so when I do replace my Macbook Air, I'll be able to use a lower powered Macbook instead. Who knows. Either way the only Apple thing I plan on upgrading with any regularity at this point is my phone. My laptop and iPad will last me for several years.
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I am in this scenario as well. I just got an Air 2 on the Staples deal and I have had a rMBP13 for a while now and love it. I am very intrigued by the iPP and I definitely want it but that would mean the Air 2 or the macbook would have to go to compensate some of the cost. I can't see the reason to do that only for the reason being I want it.

The Pro doesn't have the ability to run a program I use daily, OOTP. That is a big sticking point for me.
 
I have an iPad Air. Confused if I should upgrade to iPad Air 2 or IPad pro.

Would like multi tasking.
 
Mini 4, Air 2 and Pro will all do full multi-tasking.

Choose primarily on size. Any of the three is likely to perform satisfactorily for you. How big or small do you prefer your iPad?

BTW, your Air will do PIP and "Slide Over" multi-tasking with iOS 9. What it won't due is Split View (two active apps running side by side at the same time).
 
Yes I'm aware of the slide over etc on air. Thanks. Keeping my eyes open for the iPad pro. Let's see how big it is when it comes out.
 
Jacoblee23 said:
I have a MacBook Pro w/retina 2015 13" and an iPad Air 2. The iPad pro sounds interesting but I don't know why or how I would use an iPad pro. It's too big for just surfing the Internet and my MacBook Pro is a beast already. Is anyone with a MacBook and iPad considering the iPad pro? If so why?
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You can't draw on the MacBook Pro. For many creatives this is all the reason we need.
 
I don't think you will see a lot of people have all 3, I would guess people would be replacing their current iPads for the Pro, or select people will replace both for the iPad Pro.

I could see people having a MacBook, an iPad Mini, and an iPad Pro, 3 different devices filling 3 different needs.

Myself? I'll be sticking with my MacBook and Air 2.
 
DougFNJ said:
I don't think you will see a lot of people have all 3, I would guess people would be replacing their current iPads for the Pro, or select people will replace both for the iPad Pro.

I could see people having a MacBook, an iPad Mini, and an iPad Pro, 3 different devices filling 3 different needs.

Myself? I'll be sticking with my MacBook and Air 2.
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I think 6 Plus/iPad Pro/Macbook is the perfect combo for me, but I'm going to wait for the next Pro to make that a reality.
 
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