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New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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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.

You can't install your own software on ios without jailbreak (which is not available since iphone 5 or so)

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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> The LiDAR Scanner measures the distance to surrounding objects up to 5 meters away, works both indoors and outdoors, and operates at the photon level at nano-second speeds.

Light 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?

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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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.

I can’t imagine anyone wanting to use this for development. But then again, I don’t see how people develop without at least one, preferably two external monitors.

The new MacBook Air for $999 would be a lot more appropriate.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Apple'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…

> No ability to do any kind of coding or scripting

Buy better apps. Textastic + Working Copy FTW.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Looks 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...

Yes, and my butt is held in the seat by utilizing quantum electrodynamics, in a way we don't fully understand just yet.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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The only question I have, and the only question I ask regarding any external keyboard for an iOS device: can I remap caps lock?

Tangential, but I’ve observed that preferences of what caps lock should be is dependent on your domain.

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.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Hard 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...

What I really want to see is a (non-protruding) back camera in the centre and with a wide enough lens to be able to see through the screen 1:1 while pointing at a surface.

It would enable way more YouTube creators to be able to see properly while they’re recording.

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