“I have grown used to the giant iPad over the past few months. I’ve come to feel that the size of it is one of its greatest strengths when it comes to using it daily. The big display sets it apart from other tablets, including smaller iPads,” James Kendrick writes for ZDNet. “What has surprised me about the iPad Pro is how much I now use it as a tablet without a physical keyboard. This is where the big screen really comes into play. I can see so much on the display at once, even after scaling the text up so I can see it clearly.”
“The iPad Pro is heavy at 1.59 pounds (LTE model), but I find myself using it in hand for hours at a time,” Kendrick writes. “That is largely due to using it in split-screen mode. I can run two apps at once and put them side-by-side and still see the content.”
“The iPad Pro in a keyboard case has become my daily work system. I use it almost exclusively in large part due to the sheer size of the thing. Keyboards that fit the iPad Pro are without compromise, and they are as good as those on any laptop,” Kendrick writes. “I already own three keyboards and the last I bought has had an impact on using the iPad Pro. The ZAGG Slim Book makes it easy to lift the tablet off the keyboard dock, and it is a big reason why I use the iPad Pro as a tablet so much.”
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MacDailyNews Take: iPad Pro grows on you.
Great device!!! Love mine and the pencil.
Now lets have an iOS-PRO.. With full fledged user managable file sys .. And capability to run full fledged Apps .. Like photoshop , fcpx.. Etc. it will be a dream come true.
Except for touch, is that not what we call a MacBook?
Nope its not.. one is a tablet runing ios and a pencil/stylus….. one is a laptop runing osx through keyboard and touchpad. .
But as i have made the suggestion for a long while now..Id LOVE to see a hybrid device from Apple. .. Something super sexy like the new macbook( love the design )… With a twist and fold back/ detach screen…..With adaptable os.
The new mackbook proves its can be done beautifully.
What, full applications like MS Office?
I agree with you though that the pencil is the way to go. I am using one now with MyScript. Keyboards are so yesterday!
He doesn’t say what he does for work, but clearly he doesn’t do a lot of document work, or complex spreadsheets, or run desktop class apps for sales management or support delivery. He probably doesn’t build websites or work on projects or have different kinds of documents in a single job or portfolio.
For play an iPad is ok. For (real) work its nonsense.
“Documents and spreadsheets” aren’t the only tasks that constitute “real work.”
I cannot begin to imagine why anyone would want to do major work on an iPad.
Since my first Mac – LCII – every time I go up a monitor size, I cannot imagine how I was working on the previous smaller monitor. Currently on a 27″ iMac.
I can put up with my 13″ Air for trips, but the thought of being restricted to that small a screen every day… Blech!
Could not believe how disoriented I was last week after picking up my iPad Air2, while charging the iPad Pro…
The smaller screen size was so significant.
Open a Numbers file on a MB and iPad. Copy/paste a few dozen cells of data over from another source.
It’ll take you 2x longer on the iPad.
I now use my iPad pro 80% of the time mainly because it’s so convenient. My MacBook pro is collecting dust and my iMac is used for occasional more heavy duty tasks like photoshop and excel, my iPhone 6 only ever gets used for phone calls now. IPad pro is great for web browsing, it’s great for quickly getting my design ideas down often using Apple pencil, it’s great for reading magazines and PDF’s, it’s great for portability, it travels everywhere with me and when I am travelling google maps and especially street view come into their own. Games are great, music is great with the speakers being pretty damn good. I use brilliant apps like concepts, enlight, assembly and umake, those apps alone make the purchase of an iPad pro viable, but of course the Aplle pencil is essential as well. What you won’t like:- it’s clumsy if you do spreadsheet work, the smart keyboard is pretty difficult to use and trying to work around the missing file system is a serious hindrance I use a combination of Dropbox and an app called documents, but it’s still a big compromise. IPad Pro is the first step to a whole new genre, it’s not there yet but if Apple create a proper file system for the IPad pro then it will do most things for most people as soon as the software catches up. By the way, for those people worried about the iPad pro being too big to be used as a normal iPad, don’t be, just get the iPad pro stand and then I find being too heavy is never a problem, I use it just like an iPad on my lap or in bed, the stand works just fine for 95% of situations and I would never be tempted to get a standard size iPad like my girlfriend’s, it just looks tiny in comparison. IPad Pro is king of the hill.
The iPad Pro has become a pretty hefty competitor to the Wacom Cintiq. It’s one of the most accurate design tools I’ve ever used.