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  • New iPad Pro ad hammers home Apple's ongoing laptop replacement theme

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    lkrupp said:
    andrehinds said:
    So many people complain that the iPad Pro can't replace their computer. 
    Nope. It’s so many people posting on anonymous tech blogs that the iPad Pro can’t replace their computer. Apple deals with the real world and real markets. Desktop and laptop traditionalists who rant on tech blogs are not the real world nor are they the real market. In the real world and real markets the iPad continues to make inroads in the Enterprise, education, home use. The iPad naysayers are the crowd that, when Apple changes a single feature or option, blows a gasket because their “workflow” has been disturbed, making their whole installation “useless”. 
    To me the issue isn't that the iPad can't replace the Mac in many things. It's a different tool. I don't think anyone would be complaining but for the fact that Apple keeps claiming it can and is pricing it above the Mac in some variants. When you claim and price a device as a Mac replacement expect to get criticism if it doesn't actually do that. Especially when you stick a "Pro" moniker on the end of it. 
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  • Here are the five biggest iPad Pro problems, because no device is perfect

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    mcdave said:
    entropys said:
    It should just work. If you have to do a work around, the concept is compromised. Then add the escalating prices on anyone wanting anything other than base config. Well, TBH the base config has no doubt impressive margins already, so it is galling. Like far too many Apple products, the iPad Pro has become too expensive to recommend.

    i honestly can’t recommend the iPad Pro. Very regretfully. The basic iPad with the old pencil, with its stupid charging solution, is the iPad I have had my workplace switch to from iPad pros. The constant war I have with the Apple Hating IT department to have iPads at all, means I really don’t need the extra lead in the saddle bag of the iPad Pro price. Actually, rather than lead in the saddle bag, maybe it’s plutonium in the saddle bag. Apple product prices is always the first weapon IT use against my use case.

    Then IT moves to file management arguments (I have no answer here), and connectivity to local printers and presentation hardware. The day Surface comes with built in GPS it’s game over.
    Yeah, prices.  IT depts hate Apple products because their practices (& so jobs) become largely redundant which actually reduces price per seat - those salaries/services contracts ain’t cheap.

    All arguments (& most across the web on iPad Pro) are down to people not getting that you don’t employ the same practice to different products, not Windows PCS, not Macs, iPads.  If you do, you either spend too much money or beak the service & productivity workflows built on it.  You shouldn’t need to change these, just the practice-layer/people.

    Files; I use iPad Pro with OneDrive for Business +SharePoint. Done.
    Printers; I use a modern, AirPrint compatible printer. Don.
    Presentations; I use AppleTV (the most robust wireless solution) for KeyNote, PowerPoint & best of all - iBooks (as the contain reference material which you can duck into professionally)
    Cost; no IT involvement means huge savings.

    Good luck.
    While it's true Apple devices are more reliable that Windows, when they do have an issue they're a nightmare to deal with. I do the Mac support for my company and when there's a problem none of the tools Windows has exist. At best there are poor third party solutions like JAMF. I've used Apple since the 80's but there are days when a simple issue makes me want to throw the whole bunch out and make everyone use Windows. Apple is very business unfriendly. 
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  • Samsung's foldable display smartphone could launch in March for over $1700

    80s_Apple_Guy80s_Apple_Guy
    This is what Samsung does. They throw up stuff nowhere near ready for prime time to get the publicity of "beating Apple.". Of course the product is an overpriced bomb because unlike Apple they don't develop it until it's really ready. 
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  • Apple unveils all new 13-inch MacBook Air with Retina display, Thunderbolt 3 and more

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    My issue isn't the base price it's what the real life cost is. I have a 2012 MacBook Pro core i7 with a 1TB SSD. To replace that with a MacBook Air would cost be almost $3000 with tax. That's way way over the top. Yes buying a low end machine with miniscule storage is great but to buy a MacBook as your main computer costs way too much. Been using Apple since the IIc but now they're priced way out of range as my main computer. 
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  • Apple's powerful new Mac mini perfectly suits the 'Pro' market, yet the complaints have al...

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    The problem that I see is not the technology or even the base price. It's the storage size. If you're upgrading Apple's SSD is so expensive it costs thousands more than the one you're replacing. If you used a 500GB hard drive odds are the 128GB SSD isn't going to cut it. To match the space we had (not to mention plan for growth as storage can't be updated) tends to add up to $1000 or more to the base price of Apple's units. To put 128 on a $799 machine today is an insult. Just like Apple shipping iMacs with HDD's still. 
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