Initial tests of the iPad Pros: A good tablet, but not a laptop killer

Since Wednesday, you can order the iPad Pro officially online. Although the first test reports praise the Apple Edit, but the iPad Pro can not replace the PC.

"Why would you even buy a PC? No really, why would you buy one? "That said Tim Cook in advance of the sales launch of the iPad Pro on Wednesday. That was, of course, the burning question, the journalists who the new iPad Pro got to test, wanted to stand up for yourself and answer their readers.

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Good apps, but ..

Walt Mossberg of The Verge, who describes himself as an iPad fan who mostly then used his MacBook when he has to write and work longer texts, writes about: "The iPad Pro is definitely not a complete replacement for a great laptop like the MacBook Air, even for someone like me. "He does not miss, for example, a few functionalities in the Twitter app that would work fine with conventional iPads, but the iPad tablet per fan.

The apps of the iPad Pro can be noisy Mossberg although more than, for example, of Surface tablets (in which also works with a pen), but for him is not enough. For Mossberg graphic artists are the classic target audience of iPad Pros, because at the presentation yet many spurned Apple Edit to the expectations placed on him, surpass.

Praise for Apple Edit

The tell others that the iPad Pro could test already. Once plugged into the Lightning connector, you can get started with the stylus also equal. You can use the pen also greatly inclined, the iPad Pro still reacts extremely quickly. For graphic artists, the Apple Pen is therefore very well suited for sketching and modeling. Most of those who were able to test this experience were simply amazed.
The worst however, cut the keyboard cover from with keys. It is strongly "overpriced" with 179 euros and could not much more than the other Smart Covers that has Apple in its portfolio. Especially the Escape button is missed painfully by many.

Praise will further the good workmanship, the display size that can keep up with its 12.9 inches with the MacBooks and the display resolution of 2732 x 2048 pixels. A pleasantly sharp display and good reproduction of colors and contrasts is said the display.

Only supplement, not substitute

Everything is in everything the iPad Pro mainly an "interesting complement" to previous iPad series be, that is especially suited for graphic designers and people who want a little more to do with it than to consume content, but the MacBook - or as Cook says it himself - PCs - at the end just yet can not replace.

The iPad Pro is available in three metal colors Gold, Silver, Space Grey. As the most advanced and powerful iPad Apple has made, iPad Pro has a price tag a match. The detailed prices and model info is as followed:

• 32 GB mode with Wi-Fi: $799
• 128GB mode with Wi-Fi: $949
• 128GB mode with Wi-Fi + Cellular: $1079

Note: The prices listed above are just for iPad Pro, and the accessories like Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard are not included (their prices are $99 and $169).

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