Anyone here use these for webdev (or development work more generally) as a replacement for a laptop? How well does that work? I'm very curious.
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
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#53Light travels 30cm in 1ns. That's not really a very exciting precision at 5m range. That's like 4bit resolution.
Are there any specs aside from this marketing blabber?
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#54Anyone here use these for webdev (or development work more generally) as a replacement for a laptop? How well does that work? I'm very curious.
The new MacBook Air for $999 would be a lot more appropriate.
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#55Apple's marketing on the new iPad pros is that they can replace your computer. I bought the most recent iPad Pro model and I can say that unless the only thing you do on your computer is browse the internet (without downloading anything) you're going to have a bad time. Here are some things that don't work: * A full-featured file browser. The files app is sort of workable now, but the experience is really bad and cer…
Buy better apps. Textastic + Working Copy FTW.
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#56Looks like they'll have reinvented the macbook air in two generations. Not that it's a bad thing. > (the lidar) operates at the photon level at nano-second speed. Whaddya say!
To be fair, my phone operates at the photon level tol, when using the radio...
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#57Any ideas what you could develop with new lidar scanner?
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#58The only question I have, and the only question I ask regarding any external keyboard for an iOS device: can I remap caps lock?
I write and use a browser in my work. Caps lock as backspace makes the most sense. There will be others that will (unnecessarily) argue with me that caps should and always will be escape.
A possible (mainstream) solution is to change the caps to a custom key that’s configured in the initial setup of a device.
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#59Hard to say without knowing the component cost, but I would really like a non backfacing camera (or very cheap back camera) option in the future. I could see myself having a beefy desktop, this iPad with the keyboard, and my phone. But if you're not into the whole AR-scene, the camera seems redundant as I always have my phone with me. But I guess there's not enough people like me to justify that model...
It would enable way more YouTube creators to be able to see properly while they’re recording.
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#60Surprised no one's mentioned the USB-C yet. Definitely an indication that Apple considers this as more of a replace-your-computer device.