“As Apple’s first truly new tablet in years, the iPad Pro is every bit the beast it was rumored to be,” Michael Simon writes for Macworld. “Built around a gorgeous 12.9-inch screen, it doesn’t skimp on the pixels or the power.”
“With its eye-popping 2732-by–2048 resolution and the cutting-edge A9X chip, the big iPad Pro drew a clear line in the sand between it and the Air”,” Simon writes. “”As Steve Jobs might have said, it was a screamer.”
“With the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, however, Apple has blurred those lines a bit,” Simon writes. “With the same screen size and resolution as its predecessor, the smaller iPad Pro might seem like an inevitable evolutionary step, an update that ticks off the usual boxes and offers basic incentives to upgrade over previous generations. But by elevating the classic form factor, Apple is grooming the iPad to one day replace the Mac, creating a diverse family with clear differences that belie the natural overlap between models.”
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MacDailyNews Take: iPad and iOS are getting there for more and more tasks, but, for us truck drivers at least, there’s certainly life in the ol’ Mac, yet!