“A bit over one year ago I published my review of the 12.9-inch Apple iPad Pro,” Ian Morris writes for Forbes. “At the time I said that I believed the iPad has changed my life, and that it was rapidly replacing my laptop. Because this was controversial I wanted to revisit it after living with the iPad as a serious day-to-day device over the past year.”
“And I have put a lot of hours in with the iPad. It’s been to press events with me, flown around the world and generally not left my side for every meeting and commute into town I’ve undertaken,” Morris writes. “I’ve lost count of the articles for Forbes I’ve written on this thing, and how much weight it’s saved me lugging about.”
“So after one year, I feel like I’ve lived with this device to back up what I wrote about it originally,” Morris writes. “I don’t expect laptops to go away, but if you’re looking for a device that gives you a great mobile office, with more flexibility than you might expect, then I do remain certain that the iPad Pro is a delightful product.”
There will no doubt be a new generation of these tablets from Apple in 2017, so let this review be a reminder that the original device is worth considering, especially if it ends up getting radical price reductions,” Morris writes. “My recommendation from the original review holds true – this is still a surprising machine that allows you to get a lot done.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: While we can’t wait to see Apple’s new batch of iPads, we do wish they’d arrived in time for this past Christmas. We hope that Apple’s plan to finally return to iPad unit sales growth did not involve intentionally depressing sales first.
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“we do wish they’d arrived in time for this past Christmas”
Has it occurred to MDN that maybe Apple is going back to spreading out their release cycles? I would prefer that rather than going nuclear every Fall. They can do something like the following:
Fall – iPhone / Apple Watch / Wearables?
Spring – iPad / Apple TV
Summer (WWDC) – Mac
Fairly certain Apple has never used WWDC to announce new Macs. Why start? It would just detract from the WWDC which is about software.
Don’t know that there was ever a year after year schedule for Mac releases, although I’m fairly certain they most often occurred in late summer/ early fall. I recall reading a lot of online complaints from people because it was too late for schools to make purchasing decisions.
Ahhhh…. the neverending wait… the amzing products in the pipeline… going around in circles…
The iPad is a waste particularly in light of what Apple has done with the MacBooks slim down then or less weight. Sorry but the iPad without a keyboard just doesn’t work. I tried purchasing iPads twice returned them both times.
Not without an IOS-Pro with a robust user manageable file sys and capabilty to run full blown Applications not just fragmented snippets.
Because of the simple, modest needs of the job this guy has, he could have replaced the Mac with anything and he could have still got his job done.
The rest of us however need access to a file system, pro apps and a bigger screen. Period.
The iPad doesn’t have this. Wake me up when it does.
My iMac died. Waiting for a new one. Holding on with iPhone 6 and iPad 4. Last night I used my wife’s ancient MBP. It was exhilarating. Bigger screen. OS X. Do I really need to wait for 2017-18 iMac?!?
Exactly. Not politically correct on this site, but exactly.
when you have a visual disability the iPad Pn is the only viable option. Thanks, Apple!
I have both iPad (air) and Mac (MacBook, Mac Pro). I use them for different things. But I never do any work on the iPad, or any lengthy writing, or any significant searches in safari. I rarely send emails from the iPad. The iPad is good for reading the news, games and, really, not much else and I will keep it until it dies. The MacBook is nice and thin but the keyboard is horrible and very noisy, which can be awkward on a plane. I use Chrome for those sites that don’t work in Safari. (Why is that?).
When I use the iPad I am always aware of the functionality that was stripped out of OS X to make iOS.
The Mac Pro runs parallels and Win 10.
I use onedrive because iCloud is too restrictive and way too expensive.
I have some friends who only have an iPad. But they only do Facebook, news and short emails.
If you write a lot you know the finger is pathetic as a cursor for editing text. And iOS always insists it knows what I want to select, and always gets it wrong. Sometimes I have to select everything I want except the last character, or iOS will decide I want the whole paragraph. Very microsoftian… I hate it.
iPad will never be a Mac replacement until it is a Mac.