Wondered why they seemed fine with the iPad Air grabbing so many pro features. They had an M1 up their sleeve.
iPad Pro M1
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have zero interest in using a worse laptop. Touch screens are an anti-feature. For decades we have tried as an industry to do touch interfaces on “real” computers and it’s always horrible because it’s not actually a thing worth doing. With M1 Macs being a thing I have no idea what benefits an iPad offers.
I own a 2018 iPad Pro, and it's possibly the best & most versatile device I've ever owned. Among the things I use it for are: surfing the web whilst on the couch, checking in on my RSS feeds, casual gaming, watching movies, reading PDF & Kindle e-books, handwritten & typed notes for work & study, replying emails, portable RDP, VNC & SSH client on the go. And I'm probably still forgetting a lot of things...
Agree its a great tablet! It is versatile and I use the pencil quite a bit... HOWEVER, if it could boot to a desktop OS in addition to iPadOS... it would be the absolute killer machine for almost every use case under the sun, imo.
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#143Hmmm Does this have Ethernet as standard without a dongle?
Asking as I can't see any mention beyond under the Thunderbolt section in which it has "Configurable with Gigabit Ethernet" slapped about.
Gigabit Ethernet! If that's the max then that will upset some for sure.
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#144It'll be interesting to see if iPadOS 15 steps us any closer to laptop/desktop class usage. The biggest thing holding back iPad from being a real laptop replacement for so many is the software. It's also not as simple as porting macOS to iPad. I get Apple's hesitancy from a usability and a product cannibalization standpoint, but it's time they step things forward.
Seriously. The thing that still bites me the most is that "Share" functionality of files continues to be broken in certain apps. For example, I frequently need to save a PDF from my Google Drive app either to my local Files or the Books app. But both those options are just... missing from the iOS share sheet, even though Acrobat is there. So I have to share to Acrobat, then share to Files or Books from within Acrobat…
Unfortunately the terrible file management seems to be spreading to MacOS, rather than vice versa. Now if you have iCloud Drive turned on and navigate to ~/Documents in Finder, if you go up one level you'll find yourself in some kind of virtual folder called iCloud Drive, rather than your home directory.
This is exactly the sort of weird filesystem-tree-concept-breaking thing that made Windows Explorer so annoying to use for me.
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#145To me, it doesn't matter how powerful the iPad is if the software experience is subpar. Multitasking is cumbrous enough that it might as well not exist, multi-display setups can only mirror at a fixed aspect ratio, it lacks multiple user profiles requiring a family to be under a single user, and the few apps that take advantage of the keyboard/trackpad are nowhere similar to their desktop counterparts. Take Excel for…
I'm still skeptical that Apple wants it to be a general-purpose computer.
Remember the Apple ad with the little girl who replies... 'What's a computer?' The ad ended with the tag line...
“Imagine what your computer could do if it was an iPad Pro”.
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#146> Committed to the Environment That section is just nasty and dishonest. It perpetuates an image of Apple as a company caring for environment, which isn't exactly true. They should at least be honest that their devices are artificially hard to repair, so that they can squeeze more money out of the consumer. If someone does not have money to pay Apple to repair the device, where it lands?
Right to repair has nothing to do with the environment. Additionally Apple supports their devices far longer than any other company.
Reduce, reuse, recycle. And in this order. What can be fixed will not end up in a landfill somewhere.
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#147To me, it doesn't matter how powerful the iPad is if the software experience is subpar. Multitasking is cumbrous enough that it might as well not exist, multi-display setups can only mirror at a fixed aspect ratio, it lacks multiple user profiles requiring a family to be under a single user, and the few apps that take advantage of the keyboard/trackpad are nowhere similar to their desktop counterparts. Take Excel for…
True. But this is also what I am so exciting about what will be next on iPadOS on WWDC this year, hardware has already over Mac, it’s time to software.
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#148To me, it doesn't matter how powerful the iPad is if the software experience is subpar. Multitasking is cumbrous enough that it might as well not exist, multi-display setups can only mirror at a fixed aspect ratio, it lacks multiple user profiles requiring a family to be under a single user, and the few apps that take advantage of the keyboard/trackpad are nowhere similar to their desktop counterparts. Take Excel for…
> "...gesture-like latencies in between to get it to work."
i hate that animations on ios are i/o blocking.
every single time i have to enter my passcode, it misses at least one if not two of my keypresses, which means i have to erase the whole thing and do it more slowly since the missing keypresses are essentially random (not just the final one or two).
another related annoyance is alert popups that occur more than once. the bounce animation takes over a second, so if you have multiple of these coming in succession, which happens constantly, it's a collossal waste of focus and time.
i want to take a sledgehammer to my idevices every time these things happen.
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#149The product page is up indicating 128GB base storage and an interesting RAM note: > 8GB RAM on models with 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB storage > 16GB RAM on models with 1TB or 2TB storage
I believe this is the first time has ever advertised RAM in an iPad or iPhone.
Also the first time they shipped different amounts of ram stratified by storage choice.
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#150I wish the iPad pro was not such a locked down operating system. I just want to run a web browser that is not safari, and visual studio code.
At that point, what's the difference to MBA? iPad will always be subpar in my eyes due to poor lappability in "laptop" mode. And I realised I don't want my work screen to be covered in fingerprints.
Re fingerprints: I got an iPad Pro last year, no screen protector or anything, and I do not notice any fingerprints on it after nearly daily use since last June or so when I bought it.