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iPad Will the new iPads have bending issues?
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Is it rigid? I'm assuming it must be. I had a great case with my old iPad, but it added a lot of bulk, kinda negating the thinness.
Poor neighbor left his 12.9 iPad Pro on the couch with a thin pillow over it for protection. Along came his wife looking for the lost TV remote and put her full weight on her knee into the pillow and it made a horrible ”crack”. It actually started to smoke so they left it on the stone patio to self destruct. Life can be cruel!
Laughed when I saw this thread. Mainly cuz it was one of the first thing that hit me when they went on about how thin it is.
I'm using a M1 Pro 11" and got the sturdy logitech keyboard case to protect it, both scuffs and scratches but also bending. I can only guess but the combo weight loss and thinness doesn't sound like it would make it less bendy than the old models....
The glass might make it a bit sturdier, but again, less weight and thickness means thinner glass.
I'm using a M1 Pro 11" and got the sturdy logitech keyboard case to protect it, both scuffs and scratches but also bending. I can only guess but the combo weight loss and thinness doesn't sound like it would make it less bendy than the old models....
The glass might make it a bit sturdier, but again, less weight and thickness means thinner glass.
I know people that have "bent back" their existing iPad Pros, and think this is how they are intended to be treated. It bends from going in a backpack or from accidental squashing at home, then you forcefully bend it back into shape until it's flatish. The Guardian newspaper even published an article about it. It makes me laugh when people scoff at the ways they can bend, and say it should just be kept on a desk or transported in a hard shell case.
People on this forum don’t wanna hear that yes, Apple delivered bent iPads. It’s a fact, it happened. They’d rather act like it was your fault.
No way these new ones don’t have similar issues. Apple even said in the keynote that the new Pros are as strong as the old ones. What does that tell you?
I still plan to buy one. Look everyone: you can choose to spend money at a company that you also criticize! What a concept.
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100% agree. Some have suggested I must hate Apple because I dare criticise certain decisions they make, such as RAM/storage upgrade pricing. "Don't buy it then", is a standard response by people bafflingly shocked I could utter criticism while still vastly liking Apple products and their eco system.
Edit: Typed on a 15PM that I think is near perfect, using an excellent operating system that has a few minor bugs they don't seem to want to resolve, but that I'm overall very happy with. Siri is a joke, though, which some people wouldn't like to hear. I don't understand why Apple criticism can be so divisive and triggering, leading to the belief that those making the criticism must somehow hate the company- on a forum dedicated to the company. 🤷🏼♂️
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Ouch, that must have hurt, but accidents do happen.
I’m still wondering how you kept the previous iPad’s and iPhone’s in one piece? I mean, my neighbour has a constructions company and laughs at silly iPhones and iPads. He buys catapilar phones and Panasonic toughbooks and the likes. If you drop those things on concrete, ten feet down, you have a really good chance they are not damaged at all. But guess what? his toughbook did bend. The tracks from a digger went half over it and one half was just shrapnel.
Moral of the story: anything can be destructed, the question is if it is strong enough to withstand reasonable daily (ab)use. So if it lives on your desk, naked will do. But my IPhone has a decent Quadlock case. And my iPad a folio keyboard. Works for me.
If you’re prone to dropping then add a fluor orange huge thick foam case around.
If you’re at risk of bending, add a heavy polycarbonate/ ridged/ non-Newtonian foam filled case. Might save some repairs.
Owned iPhones from the start, and my first iPad was the iPad 3. Used Macs since the last millennium.
Never done more than dent a MacBook- a tiny dent on a 2011 MacBook Air. Otherwise not even a scratch.
Never hurt my iPad 3 despite travelling the world for 3 years with it stuffed in an over-full backpack (career break), nor had an issue with the family iPad Minis we've had, despite normal use that apparently is 'insane negligence' now based on replies.
The only iPhone damage I've ever suffered was 1 broken screen on an iPhone 6 (dropped from my hand as I pulled it out my pocket as a child collided with me- a normal case would have saved the screen), and when I similarly broke the back glass on a case free iPhone 4 with an accidental drop (edit: it actually slipped out of a protective sleeve I used at the time, and I haven't used such a thing since). I've never used a screen protector but still managed not to scratch up any of my screens!
All these products were made to be used. They were durable enough not to need more than a very cheap slim case to protect them, while not doing clearly doped things like sticking them in my back pocket or storing them in a pocket with keys. Why do you think I must be some kind of wrecking machine that breaks all his stuff because I look at the dimensions of an iPad Pro and deduce it will be more fragile than anything I currently own or have owned from Apple in the past 25 years?
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When is Apple going to make a device that is so thin you can shave with it?
Wasn’t that the first MacBook Air, when it came out that Manila folder? Razor sharp edge on that thing. Still remember the wow factor that had.
Then why the fixation on whether it will bend? Just enjoy it!
I won't buy something that requires babying and could be wrecked easily. Maybe Apple can prove me wrong and they did something magic to make this thing vaguely durable? Why make it super thin if it must be packed into a thick case just so it doesn't bend in a backpack? Plus tablets are primarily consumption devices, so it would just be a luxury rather than necessity for me personally.
Just imagine how much battery they could get in the new iPad if it were regular thickness. We pay dearly for Apple‘s obsession with thin.
You're forgetting about weight. Apple wants these things to be light too
How weak is the average MacRumors user? This argument baffles me. These things are incredibly light! I'm with those that would prefer a bigger battery.
Not about strength. If you leave it at home all day sure, no problem if it's 4lbs and half an inch thick.
These things have to fit in a bag, backpack, a suitcase. Depth matters and weight matters, especially when you're brining more gear with you.
Strong disagree because of the exaggeration on your part. A bigger battery is not going to QUADRUPLE the weight.
Like I said, I travelled the globe with an iPad 3 in my backpack for 3 years. I kept it in my day bag so I carried it pretty much all day every day for that period. It weighed 50% more than the new iPad Pro 11". The weight was not an issue what so ever.
It's also not like enlarging the battery a bit would add 50% to the weight of the device either!
Is there a chance the IPad could bend?
Not on your life my MacRumors friends
Not on your life my MacRumors friends
And I love that for you, that's beautiful, hope you took lots of photos. That does not change the fact that plenty of people like and prefer these lighter tablets - especially the 13". Then there's people that add an MKB to double the weight, stops being fun pretty quickly.
I lug this thing to and from work every day, with lunch, batteries, a book or two, water bottle, etc in my backpack. I'll take whatever weight savings I can get. Not that I can't carry a heavier tablet, just that I don't want to. And that's fine. We're all allowed to have preferences.