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Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream

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Post by fxtentacle »

ahnick wrote: post #5
lisper wrote: post #2

> It’s a clever design, one that pushes the center of gravity of the combined unit forward, making it more stable (and requiring less weight to counterbalance it). But the result isn’t some new, weird floating-screen category of computer. The result is a laptop. > This is a good thing. But it's a laptop that runs iOS instead of MacOS. This is not a good thing.

I think a lot of iOS developers would switch to this setup if Apple would just port Xcode.

Unnecessary work - and in my opinion that includes most corporate iOS apps - is exactly what's going to be severely cut due to corona.

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Post by 1123581321 »

myrandomcomment wrote: post #3

Well up until now I was flying 100K a year and bringing my MacBook Air and my 11 iPad Pro. The laptop was for working on presentations, docs, doing demos and SSH. The iPad was for the airplane and the hotel room bed. If I can really be productive on the iPad+keyboard setup then that changes what I will be packing. After the Apple store open again I am looking forward to trying this out. One downside, no Steam games f…

Civ6 is pretty good on iPad. The endgame performance is surprisingly good for a port to a machine with no fan.

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Post by _xnmw »

Is it just me, or do these iPad reviews really seem strained? Like the author is trying really hard to love their new toy, despite the functional setbacks. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad Pro 11 too and look forward to using it as a writing/notes device, but you'll never take my Mac away except out of my cold, dead, hands.

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Post by sylens »

_xnmw wrote: post #13

Is it just me, or do these iPad reviews really seem strained? Like the author is trying really hard to love their new toy, despite the functional setbacks. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad Pro 11 too and look forward to using it as a writing/notes device, but you'll never take my Mac away except out of my cold, dead, hands.

I think it's more about justifying the case. I feel like Apple "pros" or bloggers really spend a lot of words justifying how each new accessory or device fits their use case instead of just saying "It looks cool, but it's not for me". For me, I'm okay with my current keyboard folio case - I can just pair a bluetooth mouse for the few times I need to work with a mouse, which is not that often right now because there's no native code editor on iPadOS yet.

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Post by [deleted] »

_xnmw wrote: post #13

Is it just me, or do these iPad reviews really seem strained? Like the author is trying really hard to love their new toy, despite the functional setbacks. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad Pro 11 too and look forward to using it as a writing/notes device, but you'll never take my Mac away except out of my cold, dead, hands.

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Post by D13Fd »

1123581321 wrote: post #12
myrandomcomment wrote: post #3

Well up until now I was flying 100K a year and bringing my MacBook Air and my 11 iPad Pro. The laptop was for working on presentations, docs, doing demos and SSH. The iPad was for the airplane and the hotel room bed. If I can really be productive on the iPad+keyboard setup then that changes what I will be packing. After the Apple store open again I am looking forward to trying this out. One downside, no Steam games f…

Civ6 is pretty good on iPad. The endgame performance is surprisingly good for a port to a machine with no fan.

Yeah I’ve done a couple of play throughs. It’s very good overall, just a bit slow on the turns on big maps.

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Post by macintux »

fxtentacle wrote: post #11
ahnick wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a lot of iOS developers would switch to this setup if Apple would just port Xcode.

Unnecessary work - and in my opinion that includes most corporate iOS apps - is exactly what's going to be severely cut due to corona.

Conversely a lot of corporate iOS apps enable remote work, so...

Re: Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream

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Post by Koshkin »

_xnmw wrote: post #13

Is it just me, or do these iPad reviews really seem strained? Like the author is trying really hard to love their new toy, despite the functional setbacks. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad Pro 11 too and look forward to using it as a writing/notes device, but you'll never take my Mac away except out of my cold, dead, hands.

The iPad is great in its own right (what "functional setbacks"?), and if it's also possible to get a laptop-like experience from it, it's even better.

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Post by myrandomcomment »

chuckhendo wrote: post #4
myrandomcomment wrote: post #3

Well up until now I was flying 100K a year and bringing my MacBook Air and my 11 iPad Pro. The laptop was for working on presentations, docs, doing demos and SSH. The iPad was for the airplane and the hotel room bed. If I can really be productive on the iPad+keyboard setup then that changes what I will be packing. After the Apple store open again I am looking forward to trying this out. One downside, no Steam games f…

When is the iPad Pro Civ6 port coming? You mean this? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/id1...

This is evil. Now I do not need to find the laptop! Thanks for sharing. Now can we get Master Of Orion?

Re: Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream

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Post by myrandomcomment »

D13Fd wrote: post #16
1123581321 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Civ6 is pretty good on iPad. The endgame performance is surprisingly good for a port to a machine with no fan.

Yeah I’ve done a couple of play throughs. It’s very good overall, just a bit slow on the turns on big maps.

Its a dog on a 4 Core i7 with a really big map. I cannot imagine what it is like on the iPad, but I am going to buy it and find out.
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