A Great Take On The "Laptop Replacement".

[Brammy]

But something else that isn’t understood is that the iPad could happily replace a laptop for many before the iPad Pro.

I think the combination of the screen size increase (especially the 12.9), the Apple Smart Keyboard, and the Pencil helped push the Pro over the line to a true production machine for some people. The extra ram helps also.

There are still a lot of things I can't do on the iPad (I do a lot of info security work and the tools just aren't there for iOS), but the iPad Pro is a device I always with me.

 

[Appleaker]

I think the combination of the screen size increase (especially the 12.9), the Apple Smart Keyboard, and the Pencil helped push the Pro over the line to a true production machine for some people. The extra ram helps also.

There are still a lot of things I can't do on the iPad (I do a lot of info security work and the tools just aren't there for iOS), but the iPad Pro is a device I always with me.

Maybe but I think the iPad Pro was a push into a market that, for the most part, is unable to replace their computer with an iPad. But there are things that it can replace a computer for, especially with the Pencil.

 

[sacha_g88]

I was in the market for a new macbook but decided to go with a 10.5 Ipad Pro with keyboard and pencil at the end of the day. Feeling good about it so far, but it's early. im a grad student fyi.

 

[lookn4wifi]

I was researching, reading reviews, demoing, etc. MacBook / MacBook Pros when I decided to go with an iPP 10.5 + ASK and a mobile OS compatable printer. Looking forward to iOS 11 (I'm not one for beta testing). I don't have any business purpose requirements so I'm hoping this will be all I need for awhile even though my 2008 iMac is pretty long in the tooth.

 

[AFEPPL]

Top and bottom is it has to do things better and easier in order to create a reason for people to want to change.
Most of the time while you can do many of those same things, the work arounds are just more painful to live with on an iPad. So regardless of how hard I try, or how many devices and form factors I have with iOS on - it always falls well short of a replacement to a laptop.

 

[scottrods]

Scanner Pro doesn't do that? I've been using it for years to quickly "scan" documents, string them into a PDF, turn them greyscale (if needed) and send them to all my devices.

Scanner pro produces a rectangle with the camera, and automatically takes a picture once the page is lined up within it. Once you get the hang of it down you can move pretty quickly.

I ignored the iOS 11 thing because I assumed it was essentially just that.

The software in the iPad and in the new iOS11 demonstrated requires no "alignment" frame at all... It's literally "tae a picture of the page" and it squares it up and proportions it to a straight rectangle, and handles much more than Scanner Pro that you are describing... Again... take a look at the video produced by "The Verge" on youtube that shows the new iOS11's 25 best features... I'm telling you... WAAAAY different than you describe the Scanner Pro package doing.

 

[spiderman0616]

The software in the iPad and in the new iOS11 demonstrated requires no "alignment" frame at all... It's literally "tae a picture of the page" and it squares it up and proportions it to a straight rectangle, and handles much more than Scanner Pro that you are describing... Again... take a look at the video produced by "The Verge" on youtube that shows the new iOS11's 25 best features... I'm telling you... WAAAAY different than you describe the Scanner Pro package doing.

I've been using Scanner Pro for a while now, and the interface and process of scanning printed pages into a file is definitely very wonky. I was really excited to see this feature built into iOS 11.

 

[Dave-Z]

I use Scanner Pro and I've tried the iOS 11 public beta document scanning.

It's not a comparison. Scanner Pro is leaps and bounds ahead of what Apple is including. Don't get me wrong, Apple's works great and
I like it. But Scanner Pro is better. It easily supports multiple pages, re-ordering, manually adjusting levels, manually setting the page edges to correct skew, supports 1-bit (true B&W) to reduce file sizes, can export as a PDF or variety of images, auto detects white point for color images, easily re-takes an image that didn't turn out, has OCR, automated workflows to send documents as email attachments or upload to a variety of third-party or private services... and the list goes on.

The Notes document scanning will be nice for those who need it in a pinch here and there. But for those who scan documents as a regular part of their work/personal life; Scanner Pro will still be the go to app.

Also, @David58117 wasn't really clear about the rectangle for aligning... Its not that Scanner Pro makes you line it up, it's to help you as the user recognize how the app is actually detecting your paper boundaries so you can reposition the camera or document before it snaps a picture in case it's grossly misidentifing the page.

 

[HaddockW]

New user, new iPad Pro 10.5 and I also got a new Macbook Pro 15" Retina TouchBar this past week.

iPad Pro is close. I do 90% of my work on it and I'm considered a Power User.
I develop web apps with MySQL and manage dozens of servers. I also do Social Media ad creation (FB ads).
10% of my work is just better suited on the desktop. E.G. Designing a database, spooling up and creating a new Linux virtual machine.
So yes, I need a desktop for that. But once everything is up and running, I can use the iPad. I remotely access everything from a shell and I write code in a text editor. I can do that on either. The Mac does have the advantage of running a database/web server locally but thats it.

I've also transitioned my creative workflow to the iPad from Photoshop/Lightroom/FCP to Affinity Pro and Luma Fusion.
I'm doing creatives for social media so I don't need super high res files. Affinity Photo with pen is a game changer for me.
The ease of work and creative juices get flowing when I know I can edit gigs and gigs of images anywhere. I have the 256GB model.
There is that saying, the best camera is the camera you have with you and I think it is gonna apply to media creation.
The best tool is the one you have with you. I can be anywhere and create content effortlessy.
I can watch my kids play at the local park or while sitting at the bleechers during swim practice and I just pull out my6 iPad w/ pen.
I created two blog videos and some Instagram videos for a client. They were impressed at the quality.


As far as pricing is concern. I upgrade my Macbook every 3-4 years at $3K a pop. Top spec. I don't use it everyday.
But my iPad, I use it almost every waking moment I need computing. Thus, I have no problem spending $700 a year (or every other year).
I simply get more use out of it and if I calculated the cost per hour of usage, the iPad comes out miles ahead.

Each year, the iPad's use case will increase. It was 50% of my computing a few years ago, then 75%, now 90% of my needs.

 

[seadragon]

Reading a book in iBooks on my 12.9 ipad one minute, logged into work using Jump Desktop and modifying a stored procedure on SQL server the next and then back to reading my book. Life is good with the iPad!

Oh, and the book is great! Yeah it's called "How to Modify Stored Procedures on SQL Server".