“I got an attack of the giggles the moment I picked up the enormous new iPad Pro,” Jonathan Margolis writes for The Financial Times. “It felt like a normal iPad, but that I’d shrunk.”
“After four weeks with the Pro and its 12.9in screen, it still seems a large, ponderous beast. But although physically it takes some getting used to, it’s actually lighter than the original iPad,” Margolis writes. “It’s simply amazing too, as powerful as a sophisticated laptop.”
“As a way of displaying photographs, it is second to nothing I’ve seen. The image quality is quite breathtaking,” Margolis writes. “It’s also superlative for watching films. I have started re-downloading my favourites in HD just for the joy of seeing them on the Pro.”
“The sound from the device’s four speakers is also good enough to listen to without headphone,” Margolis writes. “And for reading tablet-version newspapers and magazines, it is peerless.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Jonathan sounds very much like he is limiting himself to using Apple’s most productive iPad as a mere consumption device, but, oh, what a consumption device it is!
The good news is that if you want to get some real work done, you can do that with iPad Pro, too!
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