If you're not happy with the increase in price

[rui no onna]

Is there anyone who IS happy when a company increases prices? Um...no. But that’s life. You either need or want to upgrade or ya don’t. Of course prices will be cheaper later. Of course there will be sales for Black Friday and refurbished eventually. Only you can answer if you’ll bite the bullet and buy now or wait. Me personally? I’m biting the bullet and buying now. Um...that is soon as I decide between the 1 TB 11” or 12.9” iPad Pro. Heh heh heh.

Yeah. Meanwhile, upon further thought, I've decided $1700 ($~1900 with tax) is more than I'm comfortable with since I don't urgently need a storage upgrade yet. Storage is really the only reason I'm upgrading for.

I already got my 12.9" last year so my next purchase will definitely be 11". If I can only have one iPad though, I'll probably go for the 11". As nice as it is to have essentially 2x 9.7" iPads side by side, it's easier to bring the smaller iPad everywhere with me in my purses while the 12.9 requires laptop or messenger bag. In bed, I prefer the smaller one, too. The 12.9 hurts a lot worse when it falls on your face.

 

[iZollo]

You must have gotten it on sale. Before the new models, the 256GB WiFi + cellular 10.5” model was $929 at normal price.

I was lucky as well and had Best Buy price match Costco price mistake for the iPad Pro 10.5 256gm WiFi + cellular for 719.99 before tax so I got a great deal. I am also look for that to happen again this year on the 2018 iPad Pro so I can jump on it.

 

[spiderman0616]

dunno about this man. i use my MSP16 way more than my ipad pro for client work. No color critical workflows, small pixel dimensions. its pretty limited to just comics and poster sized prints.

i hope the new ipad pro with 6gb lives up to the hype, but i doubt ill be able to open my 10gb photoshop files on it. hope im wrong. glad it works for you though!

But, 6gb ipad, pencil, case and apple care is 2500$!!! thats more than a hp zbook x2 that has better wacom pen and up to 32gb ram! procreate is nice, but its mostly just for digital painting. what about animators, matte painters, and high resolution digital art? ipad looks terribly priced and underpowered for those artists. Hope im wrong though, would be nice if they some how found a way to run photoshop fast without limits. but the three years ive had ipad pros all i have found was limits of the machine that limit my creativity.

Didn't they just demo it running "Real Photoshop" at the product announcement?
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Yeah. Meanwhile, upon further thought, I've decided $1700 ($~1900 with tax) is more than I'm comfortable with since I don't urgently need a storage upgrade yet. Storage is really the only reason I'm upgrading for.

I already got my 12.9" last year so my next purchase will definitely be 11". If I can only have one iPad though, I'll probably go for the 11". As nice as it is to have essentially 2x 9.7" iPads side by side, it's easier to bring the smaller iPad everywhere with me in my purses while the 12.9 requires laptop or messenger bag. In bed, I prefer the smaller one, too. The 12.9 hurts a lot worse when it falls on your face.

I know that there are a lot of things I would like the 12.9" model for, but like you, I read and watch TV on mine in bed a lot at night. During the day I use it for work stuff. In the evening it's used for personal stuff I need to get done. At night, it's my TV/book/sketchpad. I know Apple is trying to sell me on the new 12.9" model being "dramatically smaller" than the gen 1 and 2, but that doesn't mean it's a small iPad. Also, I dropped my XS Max on my face the other night when I nodded off, and my god that hurt.

 

[linkgx1]

TBH, Apple rarely discounts anything. That's why the price is so high. The market is willing to buy it at a particular price. Now if people decide that the price isn't worth it, then you'll see discounts. But I just got an Apple watch because (s4) it'll more than likely not get a discount anytime soon.