The iPad Pro is a lightweight tablet with a good finish and a good large display that consuming media easier.
Pros
- Light
- Big screen
- Sound
- Good sketches
- Perfect for reading the newspaper
Cons
- Load pencil fragile
- No 3D touch
- Its keyboard cover folds complex
- Pencil feedback is fast, but not instantaneous
Final conclusion
Score: 4Per criterion
Mobility and battery life
Score: 4
Heat and sound
Score: 5
Ergonomics
Score: 4
Build quality
Score: 4
Image quality
Score: 4
Performance
Score: 4
Features
Score: 3
Price
Score: 3
I found the iPad Pro quickly a interesting product. For years, I looked to Wacom solutions where you to a screen directly under the pen. As if you were drawing on paper. That is what the ads seemed to promise. It spoke to me for quite a long time. The iPad Pro comes for me in close to the sketches on paper. Only the surface is too slippery and the response of the screen is still not right.AchtergrondToen the iPad 3 with Retina display came out, I have even bought. Having a high resolution was for me the decisive factor: finally, a resolution that is easy to from read. I then also used extensively as a sketchpad; with a rubber scribe: far from optimal. A rubber stylus has no pressure sensitivity, let alone corner, but I was able to take sketches and my sketches need no longer be scanned. Sketching with the iPad 3 was sub-optimal, but the fact that you could quickly draw, simple apps and I have the device for many reasons already to me had made it for me a reasonable solution. But completely satisfied with using it as a sketchpad, I was not.
Wacom Cintiq like solutions remained for me still a bit too niche, and the prices were always still a little above my budget because I’m not full-time sketch and the device is not much would be able to use for other things. As a developer with an eye for the end-user’, or interaction designende developer, I try with a regular means of sketches an optimal UI configuration to get before I go prototypes in code.Always a digital sketchbook!As I already wrote, I also outlined all of the iPad 3. The neat digitizing of drawings on paper, how good it also outlines, I always have, but difficult to found. And digital is often how I make a sketch, communicate, and properly store 
With the iPad Pro, is the feeling, however, much closer to paper: I may have my hand resting on the screen, the ink/carbon is pretty fast (only, unfortunately, still not directly) from the pen of ‘flow’, and the level of detail is very high. Also the sensitivity is very neat, though it feels a bit strange on a smooth glass to press hard. You can hear and feel on the glass surface of the iPad nothing of it harder drukken.De PencilOf Steve Jobs would turn over in the grave? Probably not for the existence of the Pencil itself; this certainly provides added value. His objections had to do with the priegelige interfaces of many mobile platforms at the time and often only with a sylus to control (Symbian, Windows Mobile). The iPad with iOS, and thus also the iPad Pro with iOS, however, is also without the Pencil still easy to operate. W lwa l I think that the loading of the Pencil by this in the iPad to put not have the approval of Jobs had been given: it feels fragile. The pen itself is however simple, beautiful in form and has the correct weight.
A big plus of the Pencil t.o.v. the pen that Microsoft offers for its Surface Pro tablets is also that this hoekgevoelig, though the effect in practice of what to extremely. Something that is fixed through software adjustments to tweak will zijn.De AppsDe note app from Apple is actually a fine app for simple sketches to share, though I’m still an avid user of the Paper app that I had for years used, well before the Apple note app support for the creation of drawings. The fine of apps on iOS is that they (generally) quick to start and light to the touch.OverwegingenDe Wacom Cintiq has just Windows. For some, a benefit because of you all, but for me a disadvantage because you have a fast responsive device you want to have an app start when you ‘quickly’ want a sense drop. Also, the programs under Windows is not genuine ‘touch-optimized’, so the interface also lwa cht only with a pencil can operate.
The Surface Pro is more touch oriented lwa nteerd, but its associated stylus has no tilt, so the turn tilt sensitivity of the Apple Pencil in the standard apps in my opinion something too extreme.
In addition, I had also, of course, ge lwa country in iOS as a platform (and OS-X), so ditch the iPad Pro is also in that respect in better with my workflow.And further…
- The big screen, the great sound and light weight makes the device, of course, a perfect device for evening a series in bed to watch.
- Newspaper reading can be perfectly again: With the iPad 3, I read the Dutch newspaper NRC handelsblad already digital. Usually by the article on tapping, and then the ‘plain text’ in a pop-up reading. With the iPad Pro no longer: page for page, everything is lwa cht readable without zooming.
ConclusieIs the duration? Oh yes, it’s certainly not cheap, but it is the lwa is really a good device for the money. A pity that I’m doing this again to further embed in the Apple ecosystem. But a truly open alternative of the same quality there is, alas, not yet.
Used in combination with:
- Apple Pencil
- Apple Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro