The iPad Pro is now officially available: order it from the Apple Store or use the Apple Store app, and possibly even pick one up at your closest Apple Retail store if it’s in stock.
Apple is sending a review unit to me at the end of the week, so for now I must scour the reviews of others to see what this new beast is like. So far I’m excited about it. Here are some of the reviews I’ve liked so far. Look for an article from me next week (or the week after) at Macworld about how the iPad Pro stacks up specifically for photographers.
- Ben Bajarin at Techpinions, The iPad Pro: The Start of Something New:
[I]f all we do is look for the iPad Pro to replace our desktop or laptop, we are missing the point. The paradigm of a fixed desktop computer plus a portable desktop computer, along with a mouse and keyboard as a primary input mechanism, is the old world of computing. I believe Apple has laid the groundwork for something new in this category. (Disclaimer: I helped edit this piece.) - Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch, iPad Pro and the Death of a Metaphor: “iPads have little to no known malware, no bloatware to make a machine run slower, strict allowances for utilizing standing system resources and known hardware. What happens when you have a capable general consumer computing device, with no moving parts and software that is designed explicitly for the maximum capabilities of the device and no more? No one knows. It’s literally never happened before.”
- John Gruber at Daring Fireball, The iPad Pro: “For me, the iPad Pro marks the turning point where iPads are no longer merely lightweight (both physically and conceptually) alternatives to MacBooks for use in simple scenarios, to where MacBooks will now start being seen as heavyweight alternatives to iPads for complex scenarios.”
- Federico Viticci at MacStories, iPad Pro Review: A New Canvas: “This is less of a ‘just for media consumption’ device than any iPad before it. The iPad Pro is, primarily, about getting work done on iOS. And with such a focus on productivity, the iPad Pro has made rethink what I expect from an iPad.”
Not a review, but an acute observation by Rich Mogull:
I overslept and have to wait to get an iPad Pro, but I highly suspect it can replace laptops for most enterprise users. (same for Surface)
— Rich Mogull (@rmogull) November 11, 2015
The security and management implications alone are very compelling
— Rich Mogull (@rmogull) November 11, 2015
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