christopher126

I like Tim's approach...

A 27" iMac sitting on his desk at work. And when he travels, it's with an iPadPro.

A 10s in his pocket and an AppleWatch on his wrist. AirPods in a small backpack with the appropriate charging cables for those three items.

AppleCarPlay in his Porsche Boxster, and a 4K AppleTV at home. (Maybe a 12" iPad for the couch.)

Best of both worlds! MacOS and iOS.

lewchenko said:

I thought I could justify an upgrade from my Air2 (quite old now) which performs well enough but lacks features the new pro iPads have. 

but its it’s the new familiar story with Apple.. so ridiculously expensive. Astronomically so in the case of the iPad Pros. 

Eapecially when you you factor in a pencil and keyboard to make the most of your new pro device plus any extra storage , case , or LTE. 

They may be powerful but the iOS approach doesn’t suit all use cases which makes it an additional purchase to a say a laptop and phone (eg. Creatives who also code) 

iPads worked and sold well because they were a value device (consumption device or companion device). These new pro’s are arguably more than that (strong creative) but I don’t think there are millions of people willing to pay as much as a Mac book pro to have one (with the accessories). The low end iPad isn’t even an upgrade from my Air2 either so at present unless I want to cough up a grand , I’ll be sticking with the air 2. 

Apple is becoming the Prada of the tech world. Quality.. sure, but priced for the rich! 

I hear you, Chew...and you probably know this already...

First, I'm fortunate that I can focus on the 'consumer' side of Apple products as opposed to the more highly priced Pro devices!

What I try to do (I'm not always successful) is choose an optimum time to sell the Apple product I have, whether it's an iPod, iPhone, iMac, notebook, ATV, AppleWatch, etc., to sort of fund the purchase of the latest and the greatest new releases. 

For example, I sold a three year old intel white MacBook for about $250, that I'd bought a few years earlier for $1,299. I put that $250 towards a new original iPad, ($499). I reasoned that I had basically 'rented' the MacBook for 3 years ($1,000/36 mo. = ~$28/mo.) Pretty good deal! 

The original iPad I sold and bought the iPad Air, sold that and bought an iPad Mini2.

I did the same with my iPhones, ATV's, Magic Mice, keyboards, etc. 

Where I've fallen down is, I still own a 2006 original Intel iMac, a Series 0 AppleWatch, the latest non-4k AppleTV, the iPad Mini 2 (mentioned above) and a rose gold SE. And I recycled a 2009 MBP b/c the screen was janked!

What I'm particularly proud of is my 2017 MacBook (rose gold) and my AirPods! State of the art at time of purchase!

I'll probably end up giving my SE, iPad Mini, and AppleWatch to my GF. And replacing those with the consumer Apple variants. A new iPhone XR and an AppleWatch with cellular.

Anyway, just trying to be conversational and not too preachy... 

Best Regards.

It's nothing short of a very impressive upgrade...

...this is something I've always said about Apple, they don't rest on their laurels!

What does Apple have? Something like ~90% of the tablet market and 110% of the tablet profits?

And yet, they come out with this level of improvement for a device that is more powerful than 92% of the competition's laptop offerings and out-selling all the competitor's laptops! Unbelievable.

Best.

tipoo said:

The 12" particularly seems on death row. Who would pay 100 dollars more, to lose Thunderbolt 3 and a port and have less power? All to save 0.75 pounds. 

The 13" nTB Pro is a bit better positioned with more powerful processing, and I'm not sure if the Air screen has 500 nits and P3 like it? 

Me.

MisterKit said:

Certainly looks like Adobe is on board full steam. Full Photoshop alone puts iPad Pro in a new league. iPad Pro looks to have enough power to run anything that a desktop can. The surprise would be if more and more high end software does not come over.

Agreed. Didn't Apple say the iPad is now faster/more powerful than 92% of other laptops on the market? Quite a feat!