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Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream

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

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Post by ianai »

pdog wrote: post #42
_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 reason for this: the hardware is many years ahead of the software. The potential of the physical device is far ahead of its software capabilities, but you can't install your own OS or run your own applications.

I feel like that’s the case every time I load task manager or the equivalent and see cpu usage almost pegged at 0% most of the time. Or just use a text editor or excel sheet for much of what I do.

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

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Post by shmoogy »

rowanG077 wrote: post #36
Koshkin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://medium.com/@igorandreev/how-to-code-with-ipad-pro-ma...

I don't think this qualifies. You have to use bespoke tools end environments to be able to code in a very limited fashion.

I think a lot of people can get by just fine with SSH/mosh, vim, tmux... I did this for a bit but actually run vs code-server a lot too.

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

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Post by zachlatta »

Mobius01 wrote: post #23
chuckhendo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Maybe a specific iPad Pro version that’s not running at sub-native resolution and with lower graphic settings than the Nintendo Switch port. Civ6 on iPad was a very impressive port when released, but it hasn’t improved to take advantage of recent hardware.

You can change the resolution to run at retina resolution: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7ld2ht/civ_vi_is_cap...

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

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Post by paulcole »

bryanmgreen wrote: post #34

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?

I use a computer at work. I don’t use one at home.

I’ve been using an Air 2 since it launched in 2014. Added an Anker keyboard a few years ago and really like typing on it instead of the on-screen keyboard. Made doing crosswords and other stuff a lot easier.

Decided it was time to upgrade and figured I’d get the “best” and try to get another 6 years out of it.

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

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Post by theshadowknows »

walterbell wrote: post #38
OhSoHumble wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Xcode is rumored to arrive on iPad this year.

Sir you’ve given me a reason to live.

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

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Post by diebeforei485 »

_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.

My frustration is that a lot of features that are built-in on macOS sometimes require extra apps to use.

Want to resize an image (not crop)? There's an app for that, but it's hard to justify paying $9.99 for a photo editor app when macOS Preview supports resizing built-in.

I do find I can focus on specific work a lot better on an iPad. It's so much nicer to use in an intangible way that makes me more productive doing specific tasks on iPad.

And in recent days, it has been a great videoconferencing machine (except the positioning of the camera is weird - it should be on the long edge). Why is the camera on the 'side'?

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

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Post by wffurr »

myrandomcomment wrote: post #19
chuckhendo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Starbase Orion was a pretty good homage when I played it a few years back. The multiplayer even worked reasonably well.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starbase-orion/id438375580

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

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Post by jshaqaw »

bryanmgreen wrote: post #34

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?

Reading and document markup is much more pleasant for me as a tablet than sitting rigidly at a laptop.

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

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Post by 1123581321 »

diebeforei485 wrote: post #56
_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.

My frustration is that a lot of features that are built-in on macOS sometimes require extra apps to use. Want to resize an image (not crop)? There's an app for that, but it's hard to justify paying $9.99 for a photo editor app when macOS Preview supports resizing built-in. I do find I can focus on specific work a lot better on an iPad. It's so much nicer to use in an intangible way that makes me more productive doing…

Sorry, can you explain the resizing limitation a little more? I do agree it’s worth owning Pixelmator or Affinity.

I also would like a second front camera that’s center top when in keyboard mode. It’s on the “side” because that’s top in portrait mode and Apple considers that the default orientation of the iPad.

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Post by Operyl »

walterbell wrote: post #38
OhSoHumble wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Xcode is rumored to arrive on iPad this year.

As much as I want this rumor to be true, the leaker that “leaked” this has a terrible track record. Furthermore, what he “leaked” is something already in iOS 13 thats meant to be a companion app to Xcode for some debugging stuff.
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