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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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I loved the form factor of the 2015 MacBooks. It was perfect for college and I took it everywhere. It only lasted ~2 years before the mobo failed and it longer booted up. I think there was a known heating issue with these laptops.

What’s a mobo?

Motherboard, I think.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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So basically it has evolved into a laptop with a detachable monitor that includes a built-in camera (which is for sure awesome)

Yes I wonder what's going to 'win', tablet or 'laptop which can act like tablet', or will they both stay? At this rate we'll have to start comparing tablets like this to laptops like Surface Pro and it's clones (or vice-versa, maybe the Surface is the clone, don't remember exact sequence of events) because the only difference is the OS. And if more 'tablet modes' start emerging from main OS the gap will become very n…

I can't imagine a tablet is ever going to win for extremely typing-heavy tasks like writing and coding. This new keyboard also seems like it requires you to be sitting at a table to work well, which doesn't cover a lot of the cases where I type on a laptop.

To be honest, it's hard for me to think of cases where the tablet is better suited outside of things like digital drawing/painting, and some niche cases like at an expo.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Can you point to a picture?

Here’s some at the top of the page: https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/

Three dots on the bottom? Just 3 conductors? Then, very likely some custom IC is still involved to send 3.0 over them.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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post #126

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I loved the form factor of the 2015 MacBooks. It was perfect for college and I took it everywhere. It only lasted ~2 years before the mobo failed and it longer booted up. I think there was a known heating issue with these laptops.

What’s a mobo?

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Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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You can use any Bluetooth keyboard with it.

And I’ll bet my Bluetooth trackpad works with this now too.

Standard bluetooth mice already work, they've just buried mouse/trackpad support under the accessibility settings in iOS13.

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I still wish I could run Xcode on it. It’s too nice of a machine to have to spin up a cloud server to develop on. One concern: my iPad Pro 1 smart Keyboard died after 2 years.

that would be an insta-buy for me

I really think it's coming -- one day anyway -- perhaps when the Macs run Arm there'll be iPad's running Xcode

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.

What would the escape key do in iPadOS though? There isn't one on the on screen keyboard, never has been.

Clear the current field. Close the current dialog.

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?

... but it „operates on the photon level“ - that’s got to be a first for an optical system /s

It's the best thing to happen to photons since the big bang.

Ok... but they actually said "The biggest thing to happen to the cursor since point and click." What, being on an iPad?

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