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iPad Pro 2022 is Now the Year of the Pro, so are you Now Considering an M1 iPad Pro?
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I always was considering upgrading to an M1 iPad because my 9.7 iPP is getting long in the tooth; whether an Air or Pro depends on if I can live with 256GB instead of 512GB.
I’m writing this from my 11” M1. I’m trading in a 2018 12.9. Figured I may as well jump while my 2018 had value and I get a fresh battery too. I thought I’d miss the screen real estate in procreate but it’s not as bad as I expected.
now if this 14.1” iPad is real…
now if this 14.1” iPad is real…
Just wondering but why downsize? Other than stage mgt the 12.9 I think would be more than ok.
Well, I was back and forth on this. The 12.9 is great on my desk and for drawing but a bit large to use as a true tablet.
To go to the 12.9 M1, it would have been almost $700 ish out of pocket where the 11” was around $400. Since they are already a year old, I couldn’t swallow the extra $300 bucks.
I’ll re evaluate once they update the Pro line.
“It’s the year of the Pro” I said to myself a few years ago, when I bought the 1st gen 12” iPad Pro.
It turned out to be a lie.
It turned out to be a lie.
This M1 feature exclusivity nonsense has pushed me to just give up on the iPad. I have a 12.9" 2017 iPad Pro that still works fine. When it no longer does, I will probably go for a MacBook Air or similar. Probably not this year‘s model until it comes down in price significantly, I’m not spending over 1500 euros on an Air with 8 GB RAM and miserable disk space.
iPadOS improvements have not been particularly significant for years and it still seems like a platform with an OS and apps that cannot fully utilize it. Gating features to the M1 that the slightly older models should be perfectly capable of running just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
iPadOS improvements have not been particularly significant for years and it still seems like a platform with an OS and apps that cannot fully utilize it. Gating features to the M1 that the slightly older models should be perfectly capable of running just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I’m going to stick to my A12Z iPad Pro, probably wait for M2 or M3 iPP, but I am sooooo glad Apple have placed harder focus on making the Prow more worth it, makes me happy that I left my Air 2 for a Pro.
The below is very interesting on how Apple have segmented iPad OS 16 across iPads, iPad Airs and iPad Pros
These iPadOS 16 features only work on the M1 iPads
The upcoming iPadOS 16 update is packed with a lot of great features. But, unfortunately, they aren't coming to all iPads — even ones just two years old.
www.imore.com
I’m going to stick to my A12Z iPad Pro, probably wait for M2 or M3 iPP, but I am sooooo glad Apple have placed harder focus on making the Prow more worth it, makes me happy that I left my Air 2 for a Pro.
The below is very interesting on how Apple have segmented iPad OS 16 across iPads, iPad Airs and iPad Pros
These iPadOS 16 features only work on the M1 iPads
The upcoming iPadOS 16 update is packed with a lot of great features. But, unfortunately, they aren't coming to all iPads — even ones just two years old.
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Wow, you're the first one I've seen, who has a pre-M1 iPad Pro, react positively to iPad OS 16.
They say don't buy an iPad based off what it might be able to do or what it might have, but Apple has released products and given them new features every year for years. Expecting that is no different from expecting an iPhone to come out every September, you're pretty sure it's going to happen. We now see a lot of people actually do buy things with this in mind.