The iPad Pro is an expensive but very valuable addition for me. It is for a lot of things for me a laptopvervanger for on the road where I at home behind my iMac crawl. Certainly if there are more apps for the large screen optimized, it is a very interesting option.
Pros
- Beautiful screen
- Quickly
- Multitasking useful
- Rotating speakers are of good quality
- Light
Cons
- Pricey
- Separate purchase Keyboard and/or Pencil almost must
Final conclusion
Score: 5Per criterion
Mobility and battery life
Score: 5
Why an iPad Pro (or why not) ? That is probably the biggest question that people will ask if they have an iPad would like to purchase or see what kind of animal the iPad Pro in fact is.
For me it was no different. I seen the last years more and more am traveling due to the acquisition of TV channels for our new TV platform, I came slowly but surely to the discovery that a laptop is not entirely my thing was because I him, for whatever reason, don’t uitklapte. We are talking about a 15″ MacBook Pro and not an Air or other small laptop. The reason why I actually always avoid have is because I have a large need space on my desktop with a high resolution because of overview. I’ve often tried to put on a 11″ or 13″ MacBook Air (or 13″ Pro pre 2012), but the resolution is every time a dealbreaker. For the iPad Air and Mini family (I have a Mini 2 and Air so far) for me is always just too small a screen for when you are on a table works the tegenwerkpunt. Especially for the Mini 2 of course.
And then came the iPad Pro. From the moment of the announcement I had been interested because to me it is more than portable enough (aircraft, bank, customers, etc) and yet more than enough power (and split screen apps) to make things on the same level to do when I’m on the desktop do. To make sure I am agree for myself to see what I exactly need as I am on my way to do my work and I came to the conclusion that outside of a full-blown photoshop alternative (not that I have that on a 13″ screen would want to do) everything already on the iPad available. I make a lot of use of Skype, Slack, Notes, Word, E-mail, Safari, Excel for communication and information (I’m the co-founder and working as a sort or Project Director for development and New Business/bringing TV channels) so actually everything that I need was already comfortable on the iPad Pro. Only the designs in Photoshop from pieces or all the interfaces of the apps is perhaps slightly more difficult, especially because I use a mouse and effects quite can handle, but with a pen (hence: Apple Pencil) according to me still not very useful.
To-do or not to do?
I have taken a look at the Media market for the thing in to see and play with. At first glance, it is indeed a big iPad, and to some extent remains iOS a limiting factor, as this device is capable of much more, especially considering the specifications, of course. But it has a number of advantages compared to the normal ipad which is still more suitable as laptopvervanger for me than the Air or the Mini. This is due to the split-screen mode (on a 50/50 or 30/70), and the fact that you have your documents, functional specs, presentations, or other documents to create the summary better on such a screen. Eventually I took the plunge and him met. A black 128GB Wi-fi. I was apprehensive about the Cellular version, but the additional amount for GPS (where you will go for a 13″ navigation for use?) and 4G connection (I have my iPhone 6S Plus with hotspot feature always with me) I found not worth the effort. That money I have in the Apple iPad Pro Keyboard invested. In my opinion, a must-have accessory for the iPad Pro because there is much more out of it and this is the really more in the direction of a laptop-replacement.
Unboxing and Specifications
And there he is. You walk out the shop with that big box and home good for sitting. The first thing you see if you the box opening is that big with 12.9″ iPad Pro, as you always have with Apple products. Among the iPad Pro, you’ll find a long charging lightning cable (lot longer than that of the iPhone), the accompanying booklet and, of course, the plug for the electrical outlet. The first thing that stands out when you take it out of the box is that he is very light to the touch. With 713 grams, he is still 17 grams lighter than the first iPad, something that has by 78% more screen of course just bizarre to think of. It contributes in each case to the mobile work feeling, so big and yet so little weight that you carry / have in your hand. A feat of engineering. Because of the large screen also seem the bezels a lot smaller, which is traditionally when Apple is always fairly large (iPad, iPhone, iMac, MacBook Pro/Air) which I personally much better find if they have a bit more loss. That is and remains of course smaakgebonden. In terms of build quality it is just like the iPads are used to. Robust and well finished.
The iPad Pro has a A9X processor. Apple claims that this is 1.8 x as fast as the iPad Air 2 and twice as fast in terms of GPU. Whether this is all exactly true or not that may people that love to precise benchmarks exactly figure out, but 1 thing is for sure. He is really fast. I still have no application that even comes close to the max of the iPad Pro or the A9X in the farthest distance, but difficult to create. In this respect it is the rival most portable PCs’ note of Apple also is not entirely misplaced.
The screen of the iPad Pro is wonderful. It has a resolution of 2732×2048 (264 DPI). The viewing angles are very good and provide virtually no discoloration or fading of the screen. The only thing that perhaps is a pity (although I’m not really wrong) is that the 3D Touch technology has not been added by Apple.
Something else that is immediately noticeable as soon as you start the battle with going to be the built-in speakers. You have, in this model 4, of which the top 2 will always be used for the high and mid tones and the lower by the low and some mid tones. The speakers run along with how you your iPad is running, and the sound that comes out is fine. Of course, no high-end audio, but for listening to some music or watch a movie exceeds the until now every mobile device I’ve had. I find that there is also better sound than the MacBook Pro late 2013. Everything that you need for on the go. And when you’re at home sitting on your Airplay stereo for real sound 
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The battery life which Apple provide, I think, is their standard with regard to iPads seen any iPad a battery life of 10 hours. Will we get that? Depending on what you do and how you do it but, on the whole, we get a good ride yes. It is of course always a subjective experience, but, for example, a small 2 hours of Netflix watching, gave me about 11% less battery. If we extrapolate to the total duration, we would 18 hours can look. The brightness was at about 30-35% and that has, certainly with such a screen also have a huge impact. By, on the whole, I can say that it is in any case no nonsense and I was hardly on the charger don’t have to hang out. Even with the Apple iPad Pro Keyboard virtually always attached.
iPad Pro with Apple Keyboard
Then, if we still have some other things to watch then we have a 8MP camera on the back and a 1.2 MP front camera, called the FaceTime camera). That 8MP camera on the back, I find myself hardly interesting because the idea that with an iPad shooting weird, you can now further to the power of 17. An iPad Pro is NOT shooting. Only if you are visually impaired it can be a godsend, but for everyone else, this is an exercise that strictly should prohibit 
. They had that 8MP is better on the front can convert it, because for FaceTime, Skype and other videocalling is the iPad Pro then is extremely suitable.
Finally, the well-known TouchID that by now enough is known to little about having to tell, with the exception of that it as always just as expected and works fine. Also on the iPad Pro.
The use
Of course, the first thing you will do log in to the App Store and apps will download what you want to work. Apple has to be very fine is a category created with Fantastic apps for your iPad Pro. Logically, this is the first place where you start looking. It should not come as a surprise that there are many apps for graphic design, sketches, and such to find are given the great reception of the iPad Pro along with the Apple Pencil. I seen that last possession, I go here not elaborate. iMovie is also heavily promoted because of the ability to 4K video (UltraHD than but? 
) to edit. Personally I find it very good that the whole Office package (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook), Microsoft is already optimized for the iPad Pro. In addition, it is still quite a lot of big guys who already participate with optimizations for the screen resolutions. It’s a better experience than I in the beginning on the iPhone 6 Plus had almost every app looked like a stretched app. Evernote, Spotify, Plex, Twitter (even though it is sad carried out with lots of white), Skype, Slack, Dropbox, ABN AMRO, Telegram and many others are already very comfortable working with a normal appearance. NOS, NU.nl, LinkedIn, YouTube, NetFlix and Philips Hue will surely have an update soon but at the moment of speaking, not yet lwa pdatet for the new resolution (which certainly Google the to me disappointing).
Working with apps on the iPad is of course as you are used to from other iPads by the start of Apps. Since iOS 9, you also have the multi-tasking between them are some a very useful is for the iPad Pro. If you have a app opened, you can from the right side to the left swipe to a different app to the front. If you have nothing selected you get a list of other open apps which you are next to it. That looks like this:
If you have an app selected, then you can two ways to work. The first is 70/30 and the other 50/50. Note, that herein by the developer should be taken into account and that, therefore, that not every app will work!
The 70/30:
The 50/50:
Most of the time I have the program I’m in work, open in the 70% and 30%, Skype, or Slack. Sometimes it is useful to surfing with Safari, and then in addition, Skype open for conversation.
Moreover, the Apple iPad Pro Keyboard sure that you are using CMD+TAB between all full-screen applications can switch to it just like you’re used to OS X (or ALT+TAB on Windows). This gives the still a bit of a desktop-like feel.
Multimedia is also just a great experience, for the consumption thereof in each case. With 1m87, I am not the smallest and have maybe a little less effort to the iPad Pro to hold for longer than a few minutes of film to watch. It is needless to say that a 12.9″ with 4 speakers a better experience then the iPad Air or iPad mini with smaller screen and certainly many lesser speakers. It is handier, of course, and for both possibilities, there are their use cases. My personal preference is the iPad Pro.
As I said earlier, I have the Apple iPad Pro Keyboard it bought because I myself even though a lot of mail and documents saw typing on the go / with the customers and this with an on screen keyboard (even with the size of the pro) is still always less than physical keys / a real keyboard. If you productively want to be then this is a must-have accessory. This and the Logitech Create have a special connector which is intended for the connection of the keyboards. Apple calls this the ‘Smart Connector’ and its actually 3 pins that are there immediately to make sure that the keyboard is connected, it runs without bluetooth but with ‘direct connect’ and draws its power also in the iPad comes from. Of the keyboard I make a separate review so I will keep it brief. Personally I find it very typing, my speed has barely gone down and because it is light and easily foldable without too much bulk to give is this actually what you as a travel companion expected. This makes up for the lack of the row of function buttons (play/pause/next/brightness etc) more than bearable.
Laptopvervanging yes or no?
The big question of where the internet is full of brand I is whether the iPad Pro a laptopvervanger is yes or no. My answer is that it is not a complete replacement for all your work to do, but that it is in several use cases, it is an excellent alternative to a while to work. I can be a lot of work to do, and perhaps the vast majority to continue to do so. Still, there are tasks for which I faster to the Mac grab, such as the photoshopping in the creation of designs, the sorting of all the photos in the correct folders, and much, much more. However, will the iPad play an increasingly important role in my daily work/private as they have with the iPad Pro does a device have delivered highly capable and for me as laptopvervanger (which I no longer have touched since the iPad Pro) but not as desktopvervanger. For day-to-day work and on your travels is the iPad Pro for my work and use a laptopvervanger but it is still not so that the desktop is also out the door.
Final thoughts
The iPad Pro is a great device and in my case, more than worth the investment and had a lot of mobility in my work and life has added the iPad Air and Mini just not suitable enough for were. Can I use the iPad Pro then recommend to everyone? No, not at all. It is of course a huge device, so he will not be with everyone fit comfortably in the hand or just simply to big for a large group to only as a consumption device. There is the Air may more suitable for. In terms of productivity, Apple has again good steps have been made for the ‘Post-PC era” where they are talking about, but we are not there yet. iOS has a few limiting factors where Apple is somewhat doing (and possibly even very, very behind the scenes) and the speed of your workflow. Mainly filesystem based, and save documents in certain programs, instead of a general storage (iCloud Drive is that now but not every app does that on/is going on that way).
Also not everyone here are complete workflow on lost and also a lot of reviews talk about ‘to begin on the iPad Pro and finish it on the iMac/Mac Pro’. In these comments I close me also as a desktop (or laptop for that matter) is still a necessary addition remains to get everything finished in many cases. The iPad Pro would I choose the iPad Semi-Pro like to call it, given the absolute surplus value as compared with the Air or the Mini, but not yet the Post-PC era will dawn.
The price is still the last struikelpunt because with 919, he is almost 2x as expensive as the iPad Air 2 and considering you get 78% extra screen you would not be more than lwa 888,22 should be allowed to pay for it to remain the same 
. On a serious note: definitely because you actually are also almost mandatory (emotionally) the keyboard (lwa 179) and the Apple Pencil in many case (lwa 109) need to buy for the best experience lwa 1207 total on the hefty side. If you still have the 128GB variant takes you come and 1387 euro on the price of a ditto MacBook Air. 32GB as werkdevice found myself too big a gamble because it can be so full with everything. This makes it more of a niche product, and as a Semi-Pro device is attractive enough, but something where you really must think.
If the iPad Pro 32GB with keyboard, for example, vnom 999 if combi had cost and then lwa 1099 for the 128GB with keyboard, then you’re more in the value for money and even, perhaps, for some, in the direction of the no-brainer (if you are VAT back saves, of course, also significant). At the moment I find the iPad Pro is actually a bit high priced but not impossibly high. It is and remains a topdevice that you get back in return. The casual user will more quickly an Air or Mini purchase, so from that perspective, the Pro suffix is not too badly chosen 
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