“The minute Apple launches one hotly rumored device, be it the iPad Air or Retina iPad mini, a new rumored device races up to take its place in the mill,” Rene Ritchie writes for iMore.
“Enter a 13-inch ‘iPad Pro’ – a concept that leapt to every geek’s mind the moment they heard Apple adopt that other MacBook brand,” Ritchie writes. “Now I’m not so much interested in the rumor – there will always be rumors – but in how Apple could realize such an object. In how iOS could be scaled to that screen size, and what it would provide beyond the existing, 9.7-inch iPad, or the 11-inch or 13-inch MacBook Air.”
“The easiest way to add a new screen size to the iPad lineup is to scale the existing one(s). That’s what Apple did when it turned the iPad 2 into the iPad mini – they took the original 1024×768 9.7-inch display and shrank it down to 7.9-inches,” Ritchie writes. “As of October 2013, both the iPad Air and Retina iPad mini have 2048×1536 – @2x – screens at 264 ppi and 326 ppi respectively… So, could Apple simply scale the 9.7-inch screen up for a 13-inch iPad Pro the way they scaled it down for a 7.9-inch iPad mini?”
Much more in the full article here.
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13″ may be too big for an iPad, but 11-11.5″ would be good.
How about an 11.5 to 12″ iPad Pro, with an optional attachable keyboard dock? Picture an 11″ MacBook Air with a detachable screen. Yes, HP and others have done similar designs, but imagine it done right and sleek by Apple. Apple doesn’t always do things first, but they do things right.
If it’s nice and light and can do all the things my 13″ MBP can do, yes please. If not, no thanx.
No iOS device will ever eclipse the capability of a Mac OS device, by design.
Stick with Mac OS and you’ll be happy. Despite all the protestation to the contrary, iOS will always be the inferior creative platform, with fewer I/O options, lesser CPU and GPU capablities, and also typically encumbered with adware and vastly less professionally-developed software options.
OS X can run Mac and Windows apps, which blows away the iOS app store by any objective measure when it comes to productive work.
Absolutely not! No matter how large the screen, a tablet is still a tablet, without on-screen cursor control or proper i/o ports. Repeat after me: Tablets are computing devices, but they are not substitutes for computers.
I think there’s a market for a larger iPad, but that market is not nearly as lucrative as the need for
– a 17″ screen MacBook Pro
– a mid-range internally expandable Mac tower
– a significantly upgraded Mac Mini
– 23″ and 30″ Thunderbolt monitors (in addition to the 27″ model), all offering 4k resolution
– a new 12cm screen iPhone with significantly better battery life
– a new 10cm screen iPhone with some features stripped for emerging markets & entry level iOS buyers – and significantly better battery life
– a new 14cm screem iPhone with all the bells and whistles, for purse-toters.
– 64-bit Apple TV with a few hundred GB internal flash memory for very sophisticated time shifting
– a new generation of iPod classics with double the storage
– option to double the storage of current iPod touches
– a de-uglified iOS – and we’d pay for it
– a de-uglified Mac OS XI — and we’d pay for it
– a separation of iRadio from iTunes
Whats a cm ? We talk in inches ’round here ! 🙂
Gadgets designed in Cupertino, Detroit, and the vast majority of the world are designed using metric dimensions. It’s a better system.
My 82 year old dad is waiting for this product before he will buy an iPad. He can’t see well, so scale it up! And it would help everyone with poor motor skills.
(And it would make a killer GPS in your dashboard!)
Too heavy with current tech. Give it five years until there’s no bezel and the whole thing weighs less than the current Air. Otherwise it’ll be like that thing Sony do, huge and only worthwhile if you have a table to place it on.
I don’t know what size I would prefer but I would like a bigger iPad.
But, don’t think about calling it “Pro” while running iOS in its current state. iOS needs a few things be “Pro” and one if them is a “common area” type of goddamn file system. An “area” where one app can save a file to and anther app can open it from, without this “open in” BS. And ability to move files to and from the device easily, and maybe even (gasp!) to a flash drive (yes USB !).