yeah the new ipad is cool in fact it's super cool
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so tablets are going through kind of a crisis of identity right now like if
they were people they'd be in their sort of early 20s who am i faze
you see when the first ipad came out it was understood to be a new class of
device that exists in addition to the ones that you already have not as a
replacement for them then the novelty wore off and people started asking
themselves wait what was the point of these again
that's when we started seeing an attempt from manufacturers to marry the
qualities of a tablet and a laptop microsoft was among the first to
popularize this fusion with their surface line tablets that ran Windows
and could be paired with a super thin keyboard a mouse and a pen
then came the two-in-ones which were full laptops whose touchscreen displays
could be swiveled or outright removed and then used in tablet mode and then
finally apple formally joined the fray in 2015 with the first ipad to be
marketed as a laptop substitute the original ipad pro it was actually kind
of bizarre like they even had microsoft join them on stage during the
announcement to talk about how you could be super productive using office on the
new ipad so was this it had apple bless the
world's best tablet with an actual function that is beyond distracting our
cats so they won't bother us while we get work done on a real computer
well apple clearly feels that they did because it looks like the ipad pro is
here to stay it got a minor hardware revision last year and a complete
overhaul now for 2018. so we've got the
11 inch model here but there's also the 12.9 inch model both of which boast
increased screen to body ratios thanks to their edge to edge screens
though it isn't entirely clear which edge apple is talking about because i
still see a bezel and it's even got a more utilitarian physical design with
square edges like a macbook pro they've thrown in their faster eight
core a12x bionic processor which is supposedly 92 percent faster than all
the portable pcs and has xbox 1s class
graphics performance whatever those mean there's face id faster and more secure
than touch id and usb type c which
actually makes this the most computer-like tablet ever from apple
thanks to its ability to connect to external displays and a vast number of
accessories finally they launched a new apple pencil
which now snaps magnetically to the side of the ipad pro to pair
and charge personally i actually kind of liked the
old way but i get no i'm just kidding that was horrible
i can't believe this took three years go apple but none of what i just said
addresses the biggest difference between a macbook and an ipad with a keyboard
iOS and it's here that apple has done a
fairly admirable job of tweaking iOS to be more like a desktop operating system
using apps in split screen is still nice and the a12x chip actually makes
everything super fast like it's impressive how smoothly and
quickly everything occurs on the ipad pro and it's made even more snappy by
the pro motion display with its adaptive 120 hertz refresh rate but the fact is
iOS is still missing some critical
features that it needs to be a standalone computer for pro
professionals here are some of those features in no particular order one a
true file manager the iOS files app only
shows your icloud drive what
two support for external storage we finally have an iOS device with usb
type-c but it won't recognize a thumb drive you know what
apple three
better external display support you can connect displays via usbc directly or
through an adapter but it always just duplicates your ipad screen unless your
specific app supports a second screen experience four
there's still no keyboard and mouse support so if you're using it in laptop
mode with the keyboard you'll have to reach up and touch the screen anytime
you want to navigate like you're a chimp
five the pencil is sort of useful as a mouse analog
except that you still have to switch between your fingers and the pencil to
perform certain actions like navigating between apps and going to the home
screen i guess that's why this guy got so good at twirling it six the keyboard
folio only lets the ipad sit at two angles which honestly is just
unacceptable in a world that also contains the surface pro's friction
hinge seven there's no headphone jack
i'm sorry but i'm still salty look how big it is
how about it maybe even just on the 12.9 inch
right they got the same hardware so
how can a pro accept these kinds of compromises well the answer is that
there are many different types of pros professional artists professional
writers professional video editors accountants scientists business owners
brand managers each of these pro fashions warrants a
different answer to the question of whether the ipad pro can replace a
laptop i think probably the best angle you
could take on that front would be artists the pencil and the ipad pro
together are extremely impressive the
precision responsiveness and overall feel is quite possibly the best
available on anything other than a high-end wacom tablet
so artists then die they can probably replace their computer this right
well maybe illustrators and graphic designers at the verge got to try an
early version of photoshop for the ipad pro and one of the photo editors shared
that while it was cool she missed her keyboard shortcuts
and i think that kind of says it in a nutshell doesn't it
it can but professionals who professionally
you know hit their deadlines and stuff will probably share similar concerns
don't get me wrong the ipad pro has all the things that people use a computer
for a web browser apps games
even an available keyboard the whole ipad pro can be your next computer thing
is true it's just only true for a small
percentage of the people who we would traditionally describe as
pros for everyone else the ipad pro is still a secondary device something you
have in addition to your real computer
in other words it's a tablet
but okay before we you know bang the gavel and pronounce
judgment on this thing let's pretend for a moment that we are an artiste
contemplating replacing our computer with the ipad pro
that's where pricing comes into it this device starts at 799 for the 64 gig 11
inch model add the keyboard and pencil that's eleven hundred dollars but then
if you're using this as your primary machine you're probably going to want the 12.9 inch one and let's give you 256
gigs of storage as well that one's 11.50 so then the keyboard
and pencil brings us to 1450.
you know what else you can get for around that price the brand spanking new
surface pro 6. oh yeah totally forgot microsoft has a
tablet running full Windows 10 with a core i5 also 256 gigs of storage
excellent keyboard trackpad mouse support and a pen
which isn't quite as good as the apple pencil but it's pretty freaking good and
it's actually less than fourteen hundred and fifty dollars now i'm not going to
come out and say that anyone who's considering the ipad pro should just get
a surface pro instead but if you are considering an ipad pro as
your main computer you might want to consider a surface pro
or at the very least you better be pretty dang sure that you need that
special apple pencil experience so that you can create an artfully illustrated
itinerary of your vacation to maine because to me
that is this device's primary selling point
i mean perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that apple is selling a device more on
the premise of what it could be used for and their vision for
the future of computing rather than what you the end user are actually going to
use this doodad to achieve
that's kind of been their jam for a while but
maybe that's okay like if you don't go in expecting the
ipad pro or tablets like it to replace your laptop you are probably going to be
pretty darn happy with this thing and i think that it's enough to say that
this is an incredible tablet that is more powerful and capable than most
other tablets in its class because it really makes the most sense to me out of
any other tablet as a companion device like the surface line
it's more like two-in-ones laptops that
can be used as tablets as for this well this is a tablet that can be used as a
laptop maybe i'm wrong perhaps powerful tablets
that can do it all are the future of computing
but the main issue today is that apple is not going to lead us there with iOS
in my opinion what they need to do is make macOS more touch friendly or make
iOS much more robust because as it stands the ipad pro can replace your
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