Replace your Laptop... with Something Worse! - iPad Pro 2018
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,953 words · ~9 min read
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yeah the new ipad is cool in fact it's super cool
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but can cool replace a laptop
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yeah at least it can depending on what it is
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so tablets are going through kind of a crisis of identity right now like if
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they were people they'd be in their sort of early 20s who am i faze
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you see when the first ipad came out it was understood to be a new class of
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device that exists in addition to the ones that you already have not as a
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replacement for them then the novelty wore off and people started asking
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themselves wait what was the point of these again
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that's when we started seeing an attempt from manufacturers to marry the
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qualities of a tablet and a laptop microsoft was among the first to
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popularize this fusion with their surface line tablets that ran Windows
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and could be paired with a super thin keyboard a mouse and a pen
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then came the two-in-ones which were full laptops whose touchscreen displays
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could be swiveled or outright removed and then used in tablet mode and then
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finally apple formally joined the fray in 2015 with the first ipad to be
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marketed as a laptop substitute the original ipad pro it was actually kind
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of bizarre like they even had microsoft join them on stage during the
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announcement to talk about how you could be super productive using office on the
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new ipad so was this it had apple bless the
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world's best tablet with an actual function that is beyond distracting our
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cats so they won't bother us while we get work done on a real computer
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well apple clearly feels that they did because it looks like the ipad pro is
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here to stay it got a minor hardware revision last year and a complete
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overhaul now for 2018. so we've got the
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11 inch model here but there's also the 12.9 inch model both of which boast
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increased screen to body ratios thanks to their edge to edge screens
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though it isn't entirely clear which edge apple is talking about because i
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still see a bezel and it's even got a more utilitarian physical design with
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square edges like a macbook pro they've thrown in their faster eight
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core a12x bionic processor which is supposedly 92 percent faster than all
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the portable pcs and has xbox 1s class
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graphics performance whatever those mean there's face id faster and more secure
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than touch id and usb type c which
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actually makes this the most computer-like tablet ever from apple
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thanks to its ability to connect to external displays and a vast number of
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accessories finally they launched a new apple pencil
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which now snaps magnetically to the side of the ipad pro to pair
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and charge personally i actually kind of liked the
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old way but i get no i'm just kidding that was horrible
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i can't believe this took three years go apple but none of what i just said
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addresses the biggest difference between a macbook and an ipad with a keyboard
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iOS and it's here that apple has done a
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fairly admirable job of tweaking iOS to be more like a desktop operating system
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using apps in split screen is still nice and the a12x chip actually makes
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everything super fast like it's impressive how smoothly and
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quickly everything occurs on the ipad pro and it's made even more snappy by
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the pro motion display with its adaptive 120 hertz refresh rate but the fact is
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iOS is still missing some critical
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features that it needs to be a standalone computer for pro
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professionals here are some of those features in no particular order one a
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true file manager the iOS files app only
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shows your icloud drive what
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two support for external storage we finally have an iOS device with usb
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type-c but it won't recognize a thumb drive you know what
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apple three
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better external display support you can connect displays via usbc directly or
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through an adapter but it always just duplicates your ipad screen unless your
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specific app supports a second screen experience four
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there's still no keyboard and mouse support so if you're using it in laptop
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mode with the keyboard you'll have to reach up and touch the screen anytime
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you want to navigate like you're a chimp
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five the pencil is sort of useful as a mouse analog
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except that you still have to switch between your fingers and the pencil to
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perform certain actions like navigating between apps and going to the home
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screen i guess that's why this guy got so good at twirling it six the keyboard
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folio only lets the ipad sit at two angles which honestly is just
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unacceptable in a world that also contains the surface pro's friction
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hinge seven there's no headphone jack
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i'm sorry but i'm still salty look how big it is
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how about it maybe even just on the 12.9 inch
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right they got the same hardware so
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how can a pro accept these kinds of compromises well the answer is that
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there are many different types of pros professional artists professional
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writers professional video editors accountants scientists business owners
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brand managers each of these pro fashions warrants a
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different answer to the question of whether the ipad pro can replace a
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laptop i think probably the best angle you
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could take on that front would be artists the pencil and the ipad pro
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together are extremely impressive the
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precision responsiveness and overall feel is quite possibly the best
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available on anything other than a high-end wacom tablet
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so artists then die they can probably replace their computer this right
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well maybe illustrators and graphic designers at the verge got to try an
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early version of photoshop for the ipad pro and one of the photo editors shared
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that while it was cool she missed her keyboard shortcuts
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and i think that kind of says it in a nutshell doesn't it
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it can but professionals who professionally
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you know hit their deadlines and stuff will probably share similar concerns
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don't get me wrong the ipad pro has all the things that people use a computer
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for a web browser apps games
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even an available keyboard the whole ipad pro can be your next computer thing
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is true it's just only true for a small
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percentage of the people who we would traditionally describe as
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pros for everyone else the ipad pro is still a secondary device something you
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have in addition to your real computer
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in other words it's a tablet
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but okay before we you know bang the gavel and pronounce
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judgment on this thing let's pretend for a moment that we are an artiste
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contemplating replacing our computer with the ipad pro
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that's where pricing comes into it this device starts at 799 for the 64 gig 11
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inch model add the keyboard and pencil that's eleven hundred dollars but then
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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
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gigs of storage as well that one's 11.50 so then the keyboard
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and pencil brings us to 1450.
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you know what else you can get for around that price the brand spanking new
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surface pro 6. oh yeah totally forgot microsoft has a
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tablet running full Windows 10 with a core i5 also 256 gigs of storage
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excellent keyboard trackpad mouse support and a pen
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which isn't quite as good as the apple pencil but it's pretty freaking good and
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it's actually less than fourteen hundred and fifty dollars now i'm not going to
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come out and say that anyone who's considering the ipad pro should just get
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a surface pro instead but if you are considering an ipad pro as
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your main computer you might want to consider a surface pro
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or at the very least you better be pretty dang sure that you need that
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special apple pencil experience so that you can create an artfully illustrated
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itinerary of your vacation to maine because to me
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that is this device's primary selling point
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i mean perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that apple is selling a device more on
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the premise of what it could be used for and their vision for
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the future of computing rather than what you the end user are actually going to
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use this doodad to achieve
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that's kind of been their jam for a while but
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maybe that's okay like if you don't go in expecting the
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ipad pro or tablets like it to replace your laptop you are probably going to be
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pretty darn happy with this thing and i think that it's enough to say that
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this is an incredible tablet that is more powerful and capable than most
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other tablets in its class because it really makes the most sense to me out of
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any other tablet as a companion device like the surface line
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it's more like two-in-ones laptops that
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can be used as tablets as for this well this is a tablet that can be used as a
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laptop maybe i'm wrong perhaps powerful tablets
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that can do it all are the future of computing
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but the main issue today is that apple is not going to lead us there with iOS
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in my opinion what they need to do is make macOS more touch friendly or make
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iOS much more robust because as it stands the ipad pro can replace your
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