Anyone Using iPad Pro as Main Device?

[StrDev]

How does the NAS solution work for you as looking for one myself? Looking at not just documents but media files too.

I use a WD MyCloud 4TB NAS. Albeit it works, it has several limitations and the iOS app is not the best. For example there are no full administrative functions within the iOS app, one has to use the web interface from Safari which is slow and definitely not designed for touch screen. It synchronizes only with Elephant drive (of which iOS app is not good, e.g. it cannot created folders...), Amazon S3 and it also has a Dropbox sync app. I use this latter and it seems to be working.

So, if you are looking for a NAS, I highly recommend rather a Synology NAS, which has a better OS, more options and overall it is better made.
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I use a Smart Keyboard. It's just the highlighting the text part that I find the most fustrating.

Ah, see. I am highlighting texts with my fingers or a stylus on the touchscreen. I find it way more intuitive than the mouse method, but it is just a personal preference.

 

[Mathias Denichi]

I really want to use the iPad Pro as my only mobile device, but I've narrowed it down to 3 main things when making it my sole mobile device over a MacBook Pro:

• A proper UI for inspect element, mainly front end CSS testing and design.
• Spread based, customizable magazine layout program.
• Extra copy, paste, transfer issues when working out of multiple apps (i.e. Photoshop Mix to Photoshop Fix), rather than just pulling from one dynamically updated file in iCloud Drive.

 

[M. Gustave]

I use a Smart Keyboard. It's just the highlighting the text part that I find the most fustrating.

That's why the next iPad needs force touch.

 

[Night Spring]

That's why the next iPad needs force touch.

Force touch on the iPhone left me more frustrated -- I finally had to turn it off.

 

[StrDev]

That's why the next iPad needs force touch.

Does it make a difference? On my iPhone I have force touch, but it doesn't help too much in highlighting.

For highlighting I just switch on the marker tool in the PDF Max and marking with a finger or a stylus.

 

[M. Gustave]

Does it make a difference? On my iPhone I have force touch, but it doesn't help too much in highlighting.

To me it makes a huge difference. You slide the cursor to the beginning of what you want to highlight, then press harder to highlight that word, then slide the cursor across to continue highlighting the rest.

 

[StrDev]

To me it makes a huge difference. You slide the cursor to the beginning of what you want to highlight, then press harder to highlight that word, then slide the cursor across to continue highlighting the rest.

I see. I will also try it on my iphone. But process wise it is the same as holding the text for a half second, it selects the word and then I continue expanding the selection and then push highlight.

Usually I make the opposite way. First I switch on the highlighter, and than wherever I start pulling my finger it is being highlighted. I scroll the text with two fingers then. I find this method extremely fast and convenient, same speed as a paper-based book and a normal highlighter. It is even faster and more intuitive than a mouse on a PC.

 

[Night Spring]

You slide the cursor to the beginning of what you want to highlight, then press harder to highlight that word, then slide the cursor across to continue highlighting the rest.

Isn't that how it's always worked? Well, without force touch, you don't press harder, you press longer. And that's my problem with force touch, I can't seem to differentiate between pressing longer and pressing harder. It seems when I try to press longer, I also press harder at the same time.

 

[M. Gustave]

Isn't that how it's always worked? Well, without force touch, you don't press harder, you press longer. And that's my problem with force touch, I can't seem to differentiate between pressing longer and pressing harder. It seems when I try to press longer, I also press harder at the same time.

I'm talking about inside the onscreen keyboard area. Press hard to turn it into a trackpad.

 

[Mathias Denichi]

That's why the next iPad needs force touch.

It really does. It's essentially the right click of iOS. There are so many useful things such as clearing all notifications, easier text selecting cursor, peeking, popping, and locking.

 

[bubbleboil]

I'm talking about inside the onscreen keyboard area. Press hard to turn it into a trackpad.

On the iPad u use 2 finger to change it to trackpad

 

[pedrowerner]

I use my iPad Pro 10.5 for everything, my secondary machine, a MacBook Pro, is only used to get torrents, I’d love a Logic Pro version for iOS.

 

[JohnnyGo]

I use my iPad Pro 10.5 for everything, my secondary machine, a MacBook Pro, is only used to get torrents, I’d love a Logic Pro version for iOS.

I can setup torrent via my Qnap NAS. Indeed I can actually do it from the Qnap iOS apps. No longer need a MacBook for the eventual torrent.

 

[zosokm]

Depends on your use case.
The iPad Pro handles 98% of my stuff fine. I can write and exchange Office docs. The iOS version of Word I actually like better than the OS X version. The only places the iPad Pro fall down for me is gaming and editing Tableau reports.

I work as a business analyst and can actually even still get most of my work done on the iPP.

That has been my experience too. I do most of my editing on word on iOS and I find its much faster and much more intuitive than word on my Mac. Also crashes much less! With the Smart Keyboard , the iPad has pretty much replaced the laptop for me.

 

[AFEPPL]

I'd like to use my supercar as an airplane too, but it's just not going to happen.

 

[berksrunner71]

So, the Magic Keyboard instead of the Smart Keyboard? Just got my first new ipad since selling my previous one a few years ago, so I'm needing some accessory advice.

Not an IPP, but an iPad Air 2 is my main and in fact only computer. (I bought it couple months ago – and decided to rather buy the Air 2 with biggest memory than the IPP with smallest memory. Perhaps I'll upgrade to the new IPP in Mai. Let us see what models are coming.)

Additional devices:
- Magic Keyboard
- WD My Cloud NAS (a Synology would be perhaps better but I have this)
- A private and a work iPhone (6S and SE).
- Also have Dropbox 1TB and Office 365 (Office + 5x1 TB) subs

At home I am doing everything with this, including writing my dissertation. And I never ever miss a windows PC. In fact, the most expensive investment is not the iPad itself but that I had to buy my research resources (which are Biblical/theology) again to this platform, I have switched to Olive Tree's Bible app and already spent ca. $2000 on resources. But using the iOS 10 as a platform over an iPad (together with a magic keyboard sometimes) is a joyful combination.

At my work I am still using a windows-based PC (mostly powerpointing, some web design and excel), I don't know how graphically intensive works can be done on an IPP, but powerpointing is still painful on the Air 2. But this is the only use case for which I need a desktop PC so far.

 

[Brammy]

So, the Magic Keyboard instead of the Smart Keyboard? Just got my first new ipad since selling my previous one a few years ago, so I'm needing some accessory advice.

If you have an iPP get the Apple Smart keyboard. It find it gives the best balance of portability and a physical keyboard. While the Magic Keyboard is probably a better overall keyboard, I find having a keyboard cover that doesn't need Bluetooth is best for me.

 

[johnbalash]

If you have an iPP get the Apple Smart keyboard. It find it gives the best balance of portability and a physical keyboard. While the Magic Keyboard is probably a better overall keyboard, I find having a keyboard cover that doesn't need Bluetooth is best for me.

Whatever works best. I like having my iPad lighter and rarely type on the go so I keep my Magic Keyboard at home when I want to type.

 

[DoubleFlyaway]

I like ASK. I’ve had a number of Bluetooth keyboards over the years for other iPads, and they never really saw much use. Mostly, having to remember to charge them and then having to go find it when I wanted to type something long-ish just meant I didn’t actually use it. Having the ASK connected and not needing a charge, makes it super quick and easy to switch to typing on it.

 

[ericwn]

So, the Magic Keyboard instead of the Smart Keyboard? Just got my first new ipad since selling my previous one a few years ago, so I'm needing some accessory advice.

Also keep in mind that most Bluetooth keyboards will also work fine. If you already have a good keyboard, you might be set!
If not, Apple has a generous return policy, order both keyboards and send the one back that you don’t like after testing them for a few days.