I have shown off my iPad Pro to quite a few “average users” and several pros. If you are a ‘word jockey” above all else, keep your laptop and spare us your review. There are a few “pro” level user reviews that have uniformly been much more positive. Amature level reviews indeed! So many “average users” seem to be looking for ways that the iPad Pro will not work for them, instead of asking how it can improve their work experience.
That’s why Apple offers a full range of portable computing options, from the iPod touch to the MacBook Pro.
what the MacBook Pro offers for your specific needs. That doesn’t make the MacBook or the iPad Pro a “mistake” by Apple. If you’re going to be doing other things on-the-go, you might choose a MacBook Pro. If Apple made a MacBook with no ports and it weighed even less, we’d buy those instead. Guess what? We don’t care! For us that’s one port too many. “Bu, bu, but, it’s re-gawd-damn-dicuolous that there’s only one port on the MacBook!” some scream. Can it run a browser, Mail, Messages, Pixelmator, and TextEdit (yup) while we’re on the road? Check! Okay, then, which weighs the least? We’ll take it! People often ask us why we choose the 11-inch MacBook Air, of all things, for our mobile Macs and why we’ll likely choose 12-inch MacBooks next, if we don’t choose iPad Pros instead. MacDailyNews Take: Yet another “Can this replace my MacBook?” review written by someone for whom the iPad Pro is not designed (brushing aside Apple Pencil support is ridiculous the Apple Pencil is integral for many of those for whom the iPad Pro is actually intended) prompts us to repost what we wrote this morning: “But aside from Pencil support and overall speed, I’m hard-pressed to name a task I can do better on the iPad Pro than on the smaller (and more reasonably priced) iPads in the lineup.” Apple’s all-new iPad Pro with Apple Pencil “Apps on the Pro launch faster, which makes Split View feel more fluid, since you’re switching apps and flipping back and forth in a blink,” Ochs writes. “If you find yourself wondering if you really need it… you probably don’t.” “As a work tool, the iPad Pro is a little like the Mac Pro, or the MacBook Pro, or even something specialized like a miter saw: If you really need it to do your job, you likely know you need it, and you don’t need me to tell you,” Ochs writes. Apple’s newest largest tablet doesn’t need to be a laptop replacement to be good, but for a $300 premium over the cheapest iPad Air 2, it does need to deliver more than just a larger screen.” “It doesn’t fit my workflow like my MacBook Air does, so I stopped trying to force it - and that’s OK. I tried the whole ‘use the iPad Pro instead of my computer for a week’ thing and barely lasted a day,” Susie Ochs writes for Macworld.