Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Releases New 'What's a Computer?' iPad Pro Ad
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Anyone else find the clicking sounds highly satisfying? Anywho, the IPP 12.9 did replace my Macbook but I do still have a gaming pc (now basically an Overwatch pc). I was just using my IPP at work a couple hours ago. Surfing the Safari webs + some Grantchester PiP action. And yes, before you ask, I was on the clock.
/flex
/flex
Scary ****
Hope the new MBP are coming in September
I use my (really old, mid 2010) 50% of the time closed hooked up to a desktop display, and don't think an ipad can do that (amongst many other things)
Come on now Apple, release those skylake MBP it's becoming ridiculous !
Hope the new MBP are coming in September
I use my (really old, mid 2010) 50% of the time closed hooked up to a desktop display, and don't think an ipad can do that (amongst many other things)
Come on now Apple, release those skylake MBP it's becoming ridiculous !
Last edited by a moderator:
Do indulge me. What could you do before on your Mac that you can't do now? And don't say upgrade the hardware; that's a cop out
Final Cut, Logic, Motion, After Effects, Cinema 4D. Parallels and multiple displays. Just a few among the plenty. Are we really doing this now???
What, so you can no longer do those things on a Mac? Suddenly a lapse in updates have rendered all those applications and features useless?
Read my original comment.
First give it a proper OS (not an OS for a PHONE) then we can discuss.
Utter BS as long as iOS stays with iPads.
Utter BS as long as iOS stays with iPads.
It can, but not in this forced fashion Apple is taking.
I say forced because Macs were rapidly increasing and even bringing just as much revenue as the iPad before they left the Mac line by the wayside. Meanwhile, the iPad was in a steady decline.
It seems Timmy has an agenda to get people on iPad Pros, regardless of whether people vote with their wallets for standard computers like Macs or not.
Not useless -but buggy, stuttering, and with more beachballs than a sunscreen commercial.
Maybe Apple is thinking to convert as many people as they can away from macs because they figured those who need a full computer would buy one anyway.
This is false, Apps don't have to be programmed in a way to support multitasking.
That's a broken "argument"
It just dawned on me. One of Apples greatest strengths is its ability to control the design of their products from hardware to software. One of its greatest weaknesses is how its products don't work with each other. I have an iPad Pro, I like it, it doesn't work particularly well with my Mac... Kinda funny how each product is almost designed in a vacuum, perhaps one of the reasons their product line has so many pieces missing.
Pro level software isn't the only thing an iPad can't do. The poster at the end of page 5 laid it out pretty well, but I'll give you a few of the many reasons an iPad can't replace my Mac even though I don't use any pro apps:
- Screen space/external monitor/extended desktop
- USB flash drive/hard drive
- mouse/cursor support
- dual boot Windows
- file system
- multiple instances of the same app open at once, i.e. Working in 5 docs, 3 PDFs, and 2 spreadsheets at once
An iPad COULD gain many of these capabilities, but is that apple's plan? I don't think so.
Then you've got a problem with your Mac. Start a thread and we'll be happy to run some diagnoses to get the issue identified or fixed.
Crikey, tell us what you really think.
Maybe you should get away from a screen for a bit and go outside, do some push ups and some hill sprints. Oh, wait, I forgot, you don't care...
By that analogy, more like:
iPads: scooters
iPad pros: bigger motor bikes
Macbooks: small cars
MPBs: bigger cars
Custom built desktops: trucks
And no, motor bikes are NOT a replacement for cars for majority of the people for WORK. They might have great specs (like how some expensive motor bikes do) but they can't be used for work, usually.
I find it weird that people always bring up the file system as a key feature that it needs.
What?
Any app is free to have its own file system. You can share files between apps. Why do you need anything else? Why does there have to be a single unified file system like on macOS or Windows?
There's only one thing that leads me to say iOS is not a computer operating system: there's no realistic way to write programs on it.
What?
Any app is free to have its own file system. You can share files between apps. Why do you need anything else? Why does there have to be a single unified file system like on macOS or Windows?
There's only one thing that leads me to say iOS is not a computer operating system: there's no realistic way to write programs on it.
Here's a dose of reality. For the vast majority of home and casual users, an iPad is perfect. I'm a multimedia designer and use a high end iMac at work. At home I use my iPad Pro 99 percent of the time. Apple doesn't want to get rid of the Mac. It still has its uses. But the iPad is simply better and quicker with certain things. With iPad Pro, the screen blows any Mac laptop out of the water with viewing angle and doesn't get hot when watching movies. If you need tons of multitasking , get a Mac and be happy. But many of us just don't need it anymore for home use.
Imagine what the iPad could do if it was a computer. You could run Xcode, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Premier, Final Cut, and a file manager.
I expected the announcer to say, "When you see a computer that can do all that, it might just make you wonder, 'Hey, is that a Surface?'"
It's strange how Apple has seemingly back-pedaled on their insistence that the Surface was a poor user experience. Now Apple is basically marketing the iPad as a similar device. I guess Apple would argue that the main difference is iOS, which is optimized for a tablet. But with Win 10, I'm not sure that argument holds up anymore.
Remember that Apple's mission from the beginning (through Steve Jobs) was to make a computing device for the masses, something that anyone could pick up and use without having to be a geek. The iPad is the ultimate extension of that desire. It doesn't work as my main computing device, because I do a lot more than what it was designed for. But I'm sure that if I stopped using my Mac and instead forced myself to use the iPad instead, I'd eventually adapt to it. I'm just so used to the conventional notion of what a "computer" is.
It's strange how Apple has seemingly back-pedaled on their insistence that the Surface was a poor user experience. Now Apple is basically marketing the iPad as a similar device. I guess Apple would argue that the main difference is iOS, which is optimized for a tablet. But with Win 10, I'm not sure that argument holds up anymore.
Remember that Apple's mission from the beginning (through Steve Jobs) was to make a computing device for the masses, something that anyone could pick up and use without having to be a geek. The iPad is the ultimate extension of that desire. It doesn't work as my main computing device, because I do a lot more than what it was designed for. But I'm sure that if I stopped using my Mac and instead forced myself to use the iPad instead, I'd eventually adapt to it. I'm just so used to the conventional notion of what a "computer" is.
Rather than blowing a ton of marketing money trying to convince people they want a tablet, which they know perfectly well they don't, why can't Apple just sell people the computers they want?
A tablet is not a computer replacement, it is crap in that role. People know it and that's why tablet sales are in the toilet.
If Apple doesn't figure that out soon, they're going down.
A tablet is not a computer replacement, it is crap in that role. People know it and that's why tablet sales are in the toilet.
If Apple doesn't figure that out soon, they're going down.
Unfortunately it still can't do as much as the microsoft tablets on the market like the MS Surface Pro 4. I'd love to see a dual OS or a touch friendly OSX. I want so bad to love the iPad Pro but I just don't.
Not all computers can run Logic pro. The iPad is one that cannot.
The ability to run Logic Pro is not a necessary condition for categorization as a computer.
And among the pretty large group of computers that cannot run Logic Pro, the iPad is unique in that it will likely be able to run Logic Pro in the not too distant future.