secretk - I am NOW only using my iPad Pro as my only computer. I am a power user. Like you - I would have 3 windows of chrome open with 20 tabs each. Right now I have 8 tabs open. I am having to rethink how I do everything....
I do like you want - put everything I want in a different folder. I did preorder the new 12.9” with 1 TB so that I can store everything on my iPad. I do have things in a variety of places, which can get confusing. I have been a long time windows user and I had a very detailed files organization- folders in folders etc. That is driving me a bit crazy, but I am figuring out how to do it on an iPad. I am very impressed with the numbers coming in showing how fast this new iPad is.... I do have the 2015 12.9”. I have made it stutter and slow down or stop.... So I am power using it. Most of the time, when that happens, I just go in and close all the apps I am not using at the time (which may be over 20 apps). I rarely restart this thing - did yesterday for the new update LOL.
Right now, I have post it notes on my desk telling me which app to use to do certain things. I have 4 files apps - or more when you consider the ones for external drives and cloud.... `1 or 2 of them let you add folders. I am finding that I can do anything I did on my computer. Some of it can be a bit complicated, but I am use to doing things on a windows PC - so learning new apps and new ways of doing things. I can’t wait to see Photoshop on the iPad..... I DO like Affinity Photo though. I can do pretty much the same things. I have just been using PS for a long time now. Well I will be using Photo for quite awhil, before PS comes out. I am sure I will get more efficient on it as time goes by. At least they (affinity) has a lot of tutorials online!!!
I have had to do a lot of googling on apps to use. Sometimes I have to change how I word things. Or even get more specific on “how” I want an app to work. Sometimes it is so overwhelming - the amount of apps that are out there. I wish Apple had the try for free, for 15 minutes or whatever it is on the play store. That would make it so much easier to find the app that you want to use. Unless it is free, I do a lot of reading about apps before I purchase them, to see if it would fit my needs.
Unfortunately I need mouse support for work if necessary sometimes from home and simple document editing, which is way too clumsy on an iPad.
As long as you have to own three devices (phone, iPad, laptop) for me iPad will just be a toy. Basically, for me, there is no difference between iPad gen 1 and our iPad Pro 10.5 save for screen and speed for our purposes. There is still no real efficient multitasking or work capabilities. Still just as toy.
Surface Pro or Surface Book it will be next time. I am done with these obsolete products that are not 2 in 1s.
secretK - so I am using my iPad Pro 12.9” as my computer not necessarily by choice. I did want to see how it would work after I read about people doing it. But I kept resisting the idea as well. My windows desktop was having serious issues (better after reinstall), but I just got fed up with windows (been a long time coming, switched to linux quite a few times over the years, then would get a new computer). I have had my iPP for several years and last fall an apple watch and iphone X joined the mix. In all of this, I kept wondering what it would be like to have a mac....
So I started researching mac products. With my desk setup and considering ergonomics - I was not so sure about a laptop. The $$$$ was a big factor too - especially if I used an external keyboard and mouse and added another monitor. Just seemed like a lot of money to not use it like it is intended. I have realized I could change my desk setup a bit to accomodate something like this. So then, I started waiting for the “New” macs to come out.... I have had an older macbook pro (much older than I was led to believe) and a 21” iMac not working properly that I returned both. I know that for a desktop, I need an i7 with 16gb ram minimum.
I am really going to give the new iPP a good workout over the next few weeks to make sure it can do what I want. If not, I will return it and get an MBP.... I hope I don’t end up back with a Windows machine.... ugh. But after reading the geekbench test on the iPPs. I think I will be very happy. Now I will be using my 2015 12.9” as well as my new one. The old one will be for emails and browsing the web and for browsing thru my files. The new one will be for designing. So it will be my heavy hitter. At least that is the plan for now.
About files - I have multi backups. Have been doing that for years. But one problem I am facing, is being able to view my images from either the cloud or even a hard drive.... if they are very large, I only see an icon. So to view them, I need to download it. So with the 1 TB I can have all the files I use on my iPP.
Yes we do need a thread etc for apps. I will check it out. A lot of times they keep moving things to this thread. I will check the other iPad forums here....
I definitely love some of the hardware in the new iPad, no question. The A12X has already outpaced Intel dual cores in many ways. Other things could be improved. RAM is supposedly only 4GB. The screen isn't really much better than previous iterations. To me, the keyboard case is ridiculously priced for its utility at over 2x the price of the Bluetooth Magic Keyboard.
But I'm most disappointed by the software. Some implementation of a file system is essential if the iPad will ever really replace a computer, and I think it will happen at some point, but even with this nice hardware and USB-C (capable of providing enough power for a 2.5" hard drive if needed), this really holds back certain applications. That hardware is just thirsty for real pro apps, like FCPx, logic and others, which Apple didn't deliver on at all.
iMovie as a great example of iPad software being a letdown, is neutered compared to the already basic Mac version. Trying to edit on the iPad, I can't even download mp3s from a free music archive, or a video that I want to incorporate bits from, not even to iCloud. A DJ can't connect a hard drive or flash drive of their collection of music. The frustrating thing is that apps like iMovie in terms of performance, are smooth and very fast to export.
Certain other features are half-baked, like display connectivity. How do you control an extended display, given that their is no mouse? They say it's app specific, but why is there nothing at the OS level? They could have built in a basic level of this, say, the ability to throw up an app playing video or Spotify (or Apple music I guess) on the secondary display.
Like someone else on this forum said, the iPad takes baby steps; takes forever getting there.
Personally I don't have a problem with higher prices, but they do need to come with some form of added value, benefit or utility. Fundamentally, these iPads don't do anything more than the last ones, yet we've seen the price increases on all their products this year.
Great post!
At this point, it really does seem that iOS is holding the iPad back.
I’m not going to say that this is all easy to do, but iOS on iPad needs to now start becoming more powerful and get closer to the Mac - and move away from iOS on the iPhone way more than it has done.
I’d like to see a lot more multi-tasking, better window control & multiple work spaces.
Apple needs to resolve the issue of how apps work with the cloud and a regular filesysystem (this is a mess on macOS and iCloud too).
Above all, we need trackpad and mouse support.
The (potential) good news is that I suspect that we’ll get this for next year.
What I’ve outlined is now an obvious next step for the iPad and I expect that apple are already working on it as part of the marzipan project.
As a side note, I expect that from next year, the Mac and iPad are going to start to overlap quite a bit. But that’s ok as it frees up the Mac to be the machine for pros and scientists etc whilst the iPad becomes ‘the computer for the rest of us’.
Perhaps also that the a13x is going to be the one where multi core multitasking really rips along.
Until then, I’m going to be interested in the iPad but I still won’t buy one.
For me, we need all of those things I’ve mentioned above for it to be a true pc replacement.
And I’m confident that I’ll finally be buying an iPad next year...
Well that’s me told. Looks like I need to go out and buy another MBP to replace one I gave my son because I’ve had an IPad Pro for a year and not used the MBP since.In one word.....no....4gb of ram gets you and overpriced tablet not a replacement for anything
even for surfing the web i prefer the macbook. i just can‘t live without my browser extensions
If all you do is browse the internet and check your email, sure
I think a lot of people here have proven that tired response to be wrong.
Microsoft Word on the iPad is a laughably cumbersome compared to the desktop version using a mouse
Why do you even own one?
Microsoft Word on the iPad is a laughably cumbersome compared to the desktop version using a mouse
Microsoft Word on the iPad is a laughably cumbersome compared to the desktop version using a mouse
I agree. I like Win 10 way better than dated MacOS. For the precise reasons you mentionedWhat kind of issues did you have with your Windows machine? I have been Windows user all my life. I do have to say - I so prefer Windows over iOS. iOS is just not for me. I don't like how things are organized, I don't like the gestures, the settings menu, the app store and the way it's organized, the lack of files system, the fact that the system decides to do things for me without asking me.
I assume you need 16 GB ram because of the design stuff? One reason I don't want to rely on thin portable device for heavy lifting is the thermals. Even if the device has good CPU and enough RAM it can't handle the continuous work at top speed - it would overheat. Such small devices do not have good and efficient ventilation.
One of the biggest issue now is that we have expensive ultra thin devices with powerful CPUs and a lot of RAM that never get used to their top potential. The CPUs get under-clocked because they can't handle this type of usage. As consumers we end up paying a lot of specs that we would never use.
I hope that it works out for you. I don't trust Geekbench results to be honest. I have seen a lot of good numbers for devices but when I start using them I see glitches. It heavily depends on one's usage. One thing I could say is that even my 2018 iPad has no issues with CPU. I have checked. The CPU is not even used reasonably - it's up to 30 %. RAM however is heavily used. And this is what I think is an issue here. I am not sure that they have good balance between CPU and RAM. It seems that the CPUs are a lot more powerful and can take a lot of apps, but you won't have enough RAM to handle that.
Makes sense.
Yeah makes sense to check there as well. Maybe also the iOS threads.
right now, I am in a place where I want to simplify things. If Photoshop or Affinity Photo was on Linux, I would have switched and stayed a long time ago....
In April, I had the Windows update that created a lot of problems - at least I was one of the “lucky” ones. My 2.5y Asus desktop - i7, 16gb ram was crashing multiple times a day. It finally helped when I did a complete reinstall and moved it from my hybrid drive, to the SSD. But it still was not great. My son was wanting a gaming PC, he did a bunch of work for me this summer, so I gave it to him. I was just fed up with it.... Oh yea, I am the one who everyone comes to, to fix their computers.... trying to get my daughter’s laptop working faster (it has the 100% disk usage problem, even if her 1TB is less than half full)....
I have had some adjustments going to iOS. But I think I like iOS better than OS. Yes, I only used the iMac for 1 week and it had some serious issues - was running super slow no matter what I did. It was a 21” from Best Buy - 3.5 ghz, 8 gb ram and 1 TB fusion. I did need to upgrade to SSD and at least 16gb ram. But then I decided to wait to see what happened in Oct.... well no iMac’s and I was not impressed with the Mac mini or the Airs. One thing I did know, I wanted a new iPP - mine is the 12.9 from 2015.... I have not used it a lot, or as much as I want since buying it. I have wanted to use it more for drawing etc (sort of dabbled in it before). I also have an older waccom tablet that would be needing an update if I get a computer. But I think the iPP beats it hands down....
So I am trying to get my moneys worth out of the iPad - I also know that I will have to spend a lot of money to get what I need (I would be future proofing as well), ie 2018 MBP 15” etc. So if the iPP can do for me, what I need it to do - then I win at about $1000 less than final cost of MBP.
I am totally impressed with the iPP and the Photoshop using the 3gb file. On my PC, I would struggle sometimes with 300 mb files. Most of my files were about 150mb. So 3gb just boggles my mind. That file was also 12,000x12,000 pixels. Mine are usually 3600x3600 (300 ppi) at the max. This thing should be zooming fast.
I actually really like the email program on iOS. I have 6 email accounts - with a unified inbox. I can use shortcuts on my logitech (3 divice) bluetooth keyboard - arrow down or up (next message), back (delete email), space (scroll down message), I think space + shift (scrolls up message). You can use space and arrow keys in chrome as well. Cmd + tab will cycle thru open apps (in most apps - some won’t let you do that). I am sure there are a lot more shortcuts that you can use - I am just learning the ones I use all the time.