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iPad Pro What will it take to make you upgrade?

I'll upgrade my iPad when my Air2 stops working properly, or perhaps when it stops having available upgrades. So far it works as well as the day I bought it.
 
I've been wanting to make the leap to iPad for a while. I like how they work, from using my wife's 9.7.
Unfortunately, the build quality of the Pros is a major concern. My current Pixel C is not treated with much care, but it doesn't miss a beat.

There's been enough images of bent iPads and I've heard others express concern (not solely from this forum).

Much higher quality build, and I'd bite.
 
rui no onna said:
Lol, make that two thousand. :p
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True. I’ll need the new Apple Pencil, too!
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EmlynDewar said:
I've been wanting to make the leap to iPad for a while. I like how they work, from using my wife's 9.7.
Unfortunately, the build quality of the Pros is a major concern. My current Pixel C is not treated with much care, but it doesn't miss a beat.

There's been enough images of bent iPads and I've heard others express concern (not solely from this forum).

Much higher quality build, and I'd bite.
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If you’re referencing bendgate, that was significantly overblown. So are dead pixels—an anomaly that happens with every gadget.
 
I haven’t seen anything to make me want to upgrade our 1st gen 12.9 ipps or my son’s air 2 (other than a pencil for him). I’m super happy with all of it. Still in love .
 
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I have the 256GB 12.9 3rd gen Pro and hardly use the internal storage. The majority of my files live in iCloud (940GB) and OneDrive (300GB).

I bought an Apple folio cover but it looked worn after a couple of months so I bought a folio cover from Amazon for 1/5th of the price which is more rigid and still looks new after 4 months of use.

I use the Pro daily and have a whole raft of apps on it and multiple open vpn connections configured to access client sites.

I don’t ‘baby’ the pro but I am cautious about how I pack it in my bag after bending my 1st gen 12.9 which fortunately bent back quite easily. I just slip it into my bag alongside my MacBook Pro, so that would have to bend first before the iPad would.

The primary reasons I upgraded from the 10.5 to the new pro were FaceID and the 12.9 display in a smaller form factor. I gave iPad OS a quick blast and it’s quite the improvement but I’m back on iOS 12 till it becomes a bit more stable.

Unless Apple reveals some magical new feature I won’t be upgrading this iPad for a few years.
 
harriska2 said:
I haven’t seen anything to make me want to upgrade our 1st gen 12.9 ipps or my son’s air 2 (other than a pencil for him). I’m super happy with all of it. Still in love .
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100% with you. Plus I’m not keen on FaceID. As long as the 2015 model continues to run the latest OS, I’ll stick with mine too.
 
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And what model do you have now?

I have the iPad Pro 10.5 and I don’t think I’ll upgrade until there are OLED screens on the Pro models, unless my 10.5 gets so slow that’s it’s frustrating to use or it breaks.
 
I just upgraded from a 256GB 10.5" LTE Pro to a 512GB 12.9" WiFi Pro because I wanted the larger display and the additional on-board storage. I skipped LTE as I rarely made use of it on the 10.5 and can hotspot my phone when needed. I'll keep the 10.5 as there are times when the smaller size is handy.
 
A major price drop or if my current devices stop working for some reason.

In active use:
2017 iPad Pro 12.9 512GB LTE
2017 iPad Pro 10.5 512GB LTE
2016 iPad Pro 9.7 256GB LTE
 
xxray said:
And what model do you have now?

I have the iPad Pro 10.5 and I don’t think I’ll upgrade until there are OLED screens on the Pro models, unless my 10.5 gets so slow that’s it’s frustrating to use or it breaks.
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Yeah, super amoled would be nice.
 
If they came out with a Mini Pro, I’d get it.

I have the Mini 5 right now, though, so I should be happy with that for a while.
 
rui no onna said:
A major price drop or if my current devices stop working for some reason.

In active use:
2017 iPad Pro 12.9 512GB LTE
2017 iPad Pro 10.5 512GB LTE
2016 iPad Pro 9.7 256GB LTE
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Your posts helped me decide to return my iPod touch and get a mini. It feels weird having an iPad Pro and mini.
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On topic: I currently have an iPad Pro 10.5” as my main computer with an iMac. I plan to upgrade to an 11” version eventually, but at a minimum it’ll be when they upgrade the hardware again.

Honestly, the jump from the 9.7 to 10.5 with promotion seemed huge. A jump to the 11”, despite the new design, seemed wasteful. Right now I’m in between upgrading at the next refresh or just waiting. What could push me to upgrade sooner is:

  1. A price decrease in the 512GB. The Pros are just too expensive to me to be the 1.5 year update they used to be for me.
  2. Meaningful improvements to iPadOS that rely on newer hardware (like support for 5k screens, etc.)
  3. Big RAM bump. I love what I’ve seen in iPadOS and think I’ll multitask more than ever. While 4GB is perfectly fine, if I’m paying $1,500 for my next “laptop” I want it to had a minimum of 6GB of RAM to help minimize app refreshes I still get.
 
xxray said:
And what model do you have now?

I have the iPad Pro 10.5 and I don’t think I’ll upgrade until there are OLED screens on the Pro models, unless my 10.5 gets so slow that’s it’s frustrating to use or it breaks.
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Agree. OLED and I will struggle getting an 11 or 12 iPad Pro currently on Air 3 now and very happy.
 
When I can get an iPad with Promotion and 2. generation pencil support, at the price of the current iPad or iPad Air, then I will upgrade.
 
I kept my Ipad mini 2 until now. It's noticeably slow now that I got my 10.5 Pro. I'm gonna keep it around as backup. I won't be upgrading until it's slow like the mini 2 was.
 
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I have the 11” iPP, and I have upgraded almost every time a new one has been released. That being said, unless they really make some huge upgrades with the next generation of pros, I’ll probably stick with this one. The one possible thing is that I MIGHT would go to a 12.9, depending on iPadOS and whether I’m back to being able to use JUST my iPad instead of my Mac.
 
My current iPad is a Mini 5. Obviously if they updated the Mini with Face ID, minimal bezels, and/or USB-C; I'd consider upgrading again.

I would also like a bigger iPad as a typing device. I'm not impressed by the current Pro keyboards though. I even think they are a step backwards from the old Pro/Air keyboards. Plus for a typing device, the camera is in the wrong position on the short edge.

I would buy a big iPad if Apple either made the keyboards a lot better, or actually made a clamshell iPad. Something like a Pixelbook would be just about an instant buy for me, even if it was expensive, as long as it doesn't have some weird dealbreaker that I can't even imagine yet.
 
xxray said:
And what model do you have now?

I have the iPad Pro 10.5 and I don’t think I’ll upgrade until there are OLED screens on the Pro models, unless my 10.5 gets so slow that’s it’s frustrating to use or it breaks.
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I have the iPad mini 4, which I absolutely love. It's a cellular model with unlimited data on it. It goes almost everywhere with me. I recently and excitedly tried the new iPad mini 5 but ended up returning for numerous display quality issues, that I saw also affecting all the iPad mini 5s in the Apple store and two Best Buy’s. So I returned it and decided to simply replace the battery on my mini 4 myself, which restored full performance and of course battery life.

I was very disappointed that Apple went backwards in display quality with the new mini 5. Such a shame because it is so fast.
 
I have the Mini 5 (convert from the regular sized iPad) so perhaps the next Mini, given that it may now be years between updates, if ever.
 
I just picked up the new Air 3. It’s my first iPad, and I will probably not upgrade until it becomes unsupported from a software standpoint.
 
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