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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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Post by saagarjha »

kbumsik wrote: post #81
owenversteeg wrote: post #46

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.

Definitely not for a web dev. 1. iPad doesn't have a serious IDE. And syncing your workspace with a local computer is not trivial. 2. Safari for iPad doesn't have a dev mode. 3. However, if you only use terminal and vi, iPad has a great terminal app: Blink. Honestly Blink is better than most of desktop terminal in the market. https://blink.sh/

Does Blink ship with vi? It's not listed in the set of utilities on its website.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by braythwayt »

sneak wrote: post #74

lidar?! Between the 3D front-scanner for Face ID (which, incidentally, worked less well than TouchID did at the time of FaceID launch), the whole touchbar debacle, the UWB radio locator stuff in the latest iPhones, EKG support on the watch, and now LIDAR on the iPad, it seems like Apple is lately really into putting esoteric/novel hardware that nobody really wants or cares about into their newest high-end devices. Th…

Apple user since 1985 here. Apple has made some marvellous things, but if we actually look at their entire history, innovation has happened in lurches, it’s not like every single thing they ship upends and redefines entire categories.

Tons of stuff the do is incremental, and yes, lots of dead-ends happen. Just look at the history of their mice. Or Newton. Or their tepid ventures into consoles, Macs that doubled as TVs, or CD-ROM drives that were also standalone CD players.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by LeoTinnitus »

Yabood wrote: post #9

The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for $299 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wow. This must be one hell of a keyboard..

That's more than even high end mechanical keyboards cost.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by mattkevan »

owenversteeg wrote: post #46

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 use an iPad Air for light webdev work. Built my personal website with it, using a few handy apps.

Working Copy is an excellent Git client and pretty good text editor, Shellfish is great for FTP/SFTP.

Other good editors include Buffer and Textastic. Terminus is a great terminal client (though the pro edition is pricey).

Pythonista is a surprisingly powerful Python environment – with a bit of work I got Django working on it. Codea is the same for Lua. DraftCode is good for PHP, though more limited. Can run Wordpress and other PHP CMSs. There's other apps for JS/Node.

Inspect gives on-device browser developer tools. Not the best but still useful.

Plus, there's iSH, a Testflight-only app that provides a mostly complete Alpine Linux environment. Managed to get Git/Ruby/Jekyll running on it to develop a site locally, though it was slow.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by Shivetya »

qubex wrote: post #77
Yabood wrote: post #9

The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for $299 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wow. This must be one hell of a keyboard..

To be honest, even though it is extremely overpriced, it will be a great addition to my (new) iPad Pro. This 11 inch iPad Pro has been my main machine since it was released in November 2018, and as such it has been great value for money. I am a bit of an unusual case since I’ve been using iPads to cover (almost all of) my computing and workflow needs since the release of the first iPad in 2010. iPadOS has given the p…

As pointed out by another, it is also a stand. Now I expect the mechanical work has to be pretty superb to guarantee it can keep the iPad at the angle you choose. I cannot wait for a tear down of the stand.

I am a bit confused by the usb-c port for pass through charging. I would have thought a great opportunity would be to have the stand be able to wireless charge the iPad while in use but I expect the power requirements of an iPad in use would exceed current standards.

Regardless, the interesting point to me is with keyboard, pencil, and such, the price point overlap with their laptop line makes we wonder about rumors of an ARM chipped line of Macs. Without the processor difference price comparisons are going to be much more difficult to blow off

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by kbumsik »

saagarjha wrote: post #91
kbumsik wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely not for a web dev. 1. iPad doesn't have a serious IDE. And syncing your workspace with a local computer is not trivial. 2. Safari for iPad doesn't have a dev mode. 3. However, if you only use terminal and vi, iPad has a great terminal app: Blink. Honestly Blink is better than most of desktop terminal in the market. https://blink.sh/

Does Blink ship with vi? It's not listed in the set of utilities on its website.

Not locally. Its pre-shipped commands are useless. Blink is basically for SSH (or mosh, it is better than ssh). So you run vi on the remote machine.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by TravelPiglet »

wyager wrote: post #30

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…

What most people use a computer for these days are not what we use a computer for. Most people probably require little except a phone for most computing needs.

* Getting a convenient dock and better physical keyboard. * Surfing on an iPad is probably a lot better and fast experience than a similarly priced computer. * A lot of dedicated apps for most tasks people need. (Youtube, Spotify, Netflix, etc) * People use email/dropbox/similar for sharing files. * File browser definitely needs improvement. Specially for working with email attachments. * As long as you can edit videos recorded with your phone/ipad. * Most people use the built in camera and mic or perhaps a dedicated computer for conferencing. * Getting Excel on it would be sufficient for business programming.

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