The Verge:
In crafting its most compelling iPad and MacBook Air to date, Apple also created a major headache for people like me. I’m a member of that classic Intel ultrabook demographic whose computing needs are light but constant. You won’t catch me doing 3D modeling or 4K video production on my laptop, but I do a litany of small tasks online, in a word processor, or in Adobe’s Lightroom. I’ve been using a MacBook Pro for two years that does most of what I want, but it really doesn’t last long enough. Now, Apple is offering me the much better battery life I need with the high-quality display I desire, but it’s fragmented the choice. Both the new MacBook Air and new iPad Pro could be the ideal computer for me.
This will be an interesting problem for many of us. I’m in the market for a new device and am torn between these two new offerings. What would push me over the edge to the iPad Pro would be for Adobe to (soon!) announce the full version of Lightroom is available for the iPad Pro, as they announced for Photoshop.
Fun device. Non-starter for me (web development, need external displays (plural), etc. But you’ve hit the nail on the head – I think for most people it will come down to software and then to how they use it and what they like
Interesting in that I see a lot of discussion recently about
communications moving back to more text and less graphics (less video is a given) and interactive. Tablets are great for what they are good for, but they do not replace a keyboard and probably don’t replace a pointing device either. Unless we get to the Anatham world of all-pictograph communication. So if the iPad is the (one and only) future then we can expect the future to not have all the capabilities of the present.
You can take it as a given that those who switch from a macbook to an ipad are using the ipad with an external keyboard, whether the one Apple sells or a 3rd party one.
I’m looking forward to experiencing the touch UI of Photoshop, along with the Apple Pencil.
That Adobe demo at the event, along with their new AR offering was very impressive and quite compelling.
I also want to know if these new apps will be included in my CC subscription.