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I believe Jason Snell is a happy iMac Pro user.
IMO the iMac Pro exists because they got caught with their pants down on not having a Mac Pro ready to go in time.
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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.
I know I'm not the target user for the product but not being able to write code on it is a pretty significant functional setback.
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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.
I know I'm not the target user for the product but not being able to write code on it is a pretty significant functional setback.
For anyone with personal real-world experience, what convinces you to buy an iPad Pro + Keyboard over an Air or vice-versa?
> 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 resent that desktop apps can basically reach into any part of my computer, take 20 seconds to close when I tell them to exit, prevent my computer from shutting down, hog all my resources when I'm not using them, actively steal focus if they decide, fail to run because of some "missing dependency", and do a half-assed job uninstalling themselves.
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I know I'm not the target user for the product but not being able to write code on it is a pretty significant functional setback.
https://medium.com/@igorandreev/how-to-code-with-ipad-pro-ma...
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…
Granted, your use case isn't entertainment, for the most part.
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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.
I know I'm not the target user for the product but not being able to write code on it is a pretty significant functional setback.
It's getting a bit ridiculous how powerful the iPad is getting. Not necessarily in a bad way, I'm just confused about the use case. For anyone with personal real-world experience, what convinces you to buy an iPad Pro + Keyboard over an Air or vice-versa?
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…