New iPad 2018?

[Jakg]

Jimboka said:

Not a great saving after import tax ...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php...

Although it can happen, it's very unusual (from my google experience!). I didn't get any.

Mine actually came from London for a start, so there wouldn't of been any anyway - they have a UK fulfilment centre (although it still took a couple of weeks!).

[bagusbagus]

Who still uses the tablets for anything? we got some tablet crap, there are 3kids in the house,no1 uses that st, If you do nothing but play games and watch movies all day everyday and waste your life away.. I guess that's a good device for that, i'm not really sure if it's even good for that tho.

Me myself, used to have lenovo x230 Hooked up to 2x 23' LCD's when I'm doing something, when I need to take it with me, you can easily slide it in a large coat pocket and you have a full power pc with you everywhere you go with all the ports and st you can imagine.
Than the mobo died on it half a year ago, went on ebay and bought another x230 for £80 ... Decent I5 , 240gb ssd , 8gb ram.. what more can you ask for?

As for full size PC,nah...not anymore. decent laptops are capable of doing everything you need for already some years..

[anonymous-user]

I have the latest gen iPad pro with the apple pencil. I use it for taking notes for uni. I can't be arsed to keep track of 3-4 different notebooks so I went with this setup. I use notability app which also does voice recording at the same time. It's been a lifesaver tbh and with icloud I can access everything via my iphone and macbook pro.

As for replacing a laptop. For me personally no. It's still way behind unless you only do browsing/emails and word documents, for anything else my 2011 macbook pro is still my number 1 choice and that includes editing and coding.

[Rawwr]

bagusbagus said:

Who still uses the tablets for anything? we got some tablet crap, there are 3kids in the house,no1 uses that st, If you do nothing but play games and watch movies all day everyday and waste your life away.. I guess that's a good device for that, i'm not really sure if it's even good for that tho.

Me myself, used to have lenovo x230 Hooked up to 2x 23' LCD's when I'm doing something, when I need to take it with me, you can easily slide it in a large coat pocket and you have a full power pc with you everywhere you go with all the ports and st you can imagine.
Than the mobo died on it half a year ago, went on ebay and bought another x230 for £80 ... Decent I5 , 240gb ssd , 8gb ram.. what more can you ask for?

As for full size PC,nah...not anymore. decent laptops are capable of doing everything you need for already some years..

Strong views.

[TheJimi]

Some of you need to read the OP again. Slowly, this time.

[Zod]

bagusbagus said:

Who still uses the tablets for anything? we got some tablet crap, there are 3kids in the house,no1 uses that st, If you do nothing but play games and watch movies all day everyday and waste your life away.. I guess that's a good device for that, i'm not really sure if it's even good for that tho.

Me myself, used to have lenovo x230 Hooked up to 2x 23' LCD's when I'm doing something, when I need to take it with me, you can easily slide it in a large coat pocket and you have a full power pc with you everywhere you go with all the ports and st you can imagine.
Than the mobo died on it half a year ago, went on ebay and bought another x230 for £80 ... Decent I5 , 240gb ssd , 8gb ram.. what more can you ask for?

As for full size PC,nah...not anymore. decent laptops are capable of doing everything you need for already some years..

You must have big pockets. Power adapter in another pocket?

Laptops are useless for games.

My use pattern now is desktops at home (PC and iMac) for games and work. iPad for most things I do when travelling or with clients and Surface Pro at work, for more serious work when travelling and with clients and to dock at home for when I have to do major edits on documents or presentations.

As for the OP, I think Apple will continue to offer a cheaper iPad for family use for some time.

[TameRacingDriver]

Zod said:

bagusbagus said:

Who still uses the tablets for anything? we got some tablet crap, there are 3kids in the house,no1 uses that st, If you do nothing but play games and watch movies all day everyday and waste your life away.. I guess that's a good device for that, i'm not really sure if it's even good for that tho.

Me myself, used to have lenovo x230 Hooked up to 2x 23' LCD's when I'm doing something, when I need to take it with me, you can easily slide it in a large coat pocket and you have a full power pc with you everywhere you go with all the ports and st you can imagine.
Than the mobo died on it half a year ago, went on ebay and bought another x230 for £80 ... Decent I5 , 240gb ssd , 8gb ram.. what more can you ask for?

As for full size PC,nah...not anymore. decent laptops are capable of doing everything you need for already some years..

You must have big pockets. Power adapter in another pocket?

Laptops are useless for games.

The original post isn't really worth replying to.

We used to use X230s at work, we got rid about 2 years ago. Decent for what they are (a very cheap laptop), but not even remotely comparable to an iPad. Heavy, bulky, crap battery life, heat, rubbish screen, horrific touchpad. I'm glad you like it though.

[bagusbagus]

TameRacingDriver said:

The original post isn't really worth replying to.

We used to use X230s at work, we got rid about 2 years ago. Decent for what they are (a very cheap laptop), but not even remotely comparable to an iPad. Heavy, bulky, crap battery life, heat, rubbish screen, horrific touchpad. I'm glad you like it though.

Used to have x260 /t450 as well.. I sold them because they were made of cheese and looked like cheap chinese crap+ on top of it all, they had worse/the same cpu power as the x230 , the x230 really is probably the last laptop they made that was still made like a tank, I don't really care about the extra 100g of weight, I got ips on mine so it's fine.. dunno if 8hours of battery is crap tho, the newer ones don't really get much more than that in real life usage.

anyway. Mine is sitting 99% of the time on a desk hooked up to larger screens..so it doesn't really matters?

If your priorities are games, consuming bunch of useless content (news, stuff like this forum, etc..) than sure Get the Ipad crap, I have got myself over that period of wasting my time online...it was hard but its doable , Useless devices like ipads doesn't really help much tho...

[Zod]

What is the point of a laptop that spends 99% of its time docked?

[TheJimi]

bagusbagus said:

TameRacingDriver said:

The original post isn't really worth replying to.

We used to use X230s at work, we got rid about 2 years ago. Decent for what they are (a very cheap laptop), but not even remotely comparable to an iPad. Heavy, bulky, crap battery life, heat, rubbish screen, horrific touchpad. I'm glad you like it though.

Used to have x260 /t450 as well.. I sold them because they were made of cheese and looked like cheap chinese crap+ on top of it all, they had worse/the same cpu power as the x230 , the x230 really is probably the last laptop they made that was still made like a tank, I don't really care about the extra 100g of weight, I got ips on mine so it's fine.. dunno if 8hours of battery is crap tho, the newer ones don't really get much more than that in real life usage.

anyway. Mine is sitting 99% of the time on a desk hooked up to larger screens..so it doesn't really matters?

If your priorities are games, consuming bunch of useless content (news, stuff like this forum, etc..) than sure Get the Ipad crap, I have got myself over that period of wasting my time online...it was hard but its doable , Useless devices like ipads doesn't really help much tho...

Who gives a fk? Neither of your posts answered the OP - you're just just using the thread as your personal soapbox, as Blown2CV.

fk sake, what IS it about seemingly innocuous tech kit that turns folk into twits?

[Rawwr]

bagusbagus said:

Used to have x260 /t450 as well.. I sold them because they were made of cheese and looked like cheap chinese crap+ on top of it all, they had worse/the same cpu power as the x230 , the x230 really is probably the last laptop they made that was still made like a tank, I don't really care about the extra 100g of weight, I got ips on mine so it's fine.. dunno if 8hours of battery is crap tho, the newer ones don't really get much more than that in real life usage.

anyway. Mine is sitting 99% of the time on a desk hooked up to larger screens..so it doesn't really matters?

If your priorities are games, consuming bunch of useless content (news, stuff like this forum, etc..) than sure Get the Ipad crap, I have got myself over that period of wasting my time online...it was hard but its doable , Useless devices like ipads doesn't really help much tho...

Strong views.

For anyone who can't bothered to read it, allow me to summarise: "Anyone who doesn't have exactly the same needs and tastes as me is an idiot who buys crap."

[jmorgan]

TheJimi said:

Some of you need to read the OP again. Slowly, this time.

Indeed. I would wit until the update is confirmed and what the update is (if t is updated as per post with mac rumours link on page 1), the iPad prices are attractive at the moment though I could be tempted for a pro.

Edit. Speaking of which, March possibly.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/21/ipad-certific...

Edited by jmorgan on Wednesday 21st February 14:29

[bagusbagus]

Rawwr said:

Strong views.

For anyone who can't bothered to read it, allow me to summarise: "Anyone who doesn't have exactly the same needs and tastes as me is an idiot who buys crap."

Basically....

[Craikeybaby]

GetCarter said:

5k iPad is a really good place to use Lightroom. As is a 5K iMac.

Lightroom CC on iPad (or iMac) is nowhere near as good/powerful as Lightroom Classic CC on an iMac/MacBook. Until there is feature parity between Lightroom on iOS and Lightroom Classic I'll need to have a MacBook as my portable machine, rather than an iPad.

CrouchingWayne said:

Is this still he case? I know on the Apple website it says they do Swift programming now but is that actually enough to be able to program and release anything?

I'd love to move to an iPad device as primary as my use is 95% casual browsing, but that last 5% I dabble in basic web design and try to learn programming of apps etc. so I'm not sure if that can be done in iOS yet.

I'm not keen on the price of the new MBP's, if they had been cheaper it would have been easier to justify

To be fair you don't need a MPB for 5% basic web design/programming - a MacBook would be more than enough for that!

[TheJimi]

Basic MacBook and entry level MacBook Pro are the same price. MBP is better in everyway unless you *really* value the weight saving the MB offers .

[TheJimi]

Zod said:

GTO-3R said:

I'm thinking of trading my 2013 Retina MBP in for an iPad pro. Does the pro have a folder structure capability like an MBP or is it more like a regular iPad with just apps etc?

Folders were introduced with iOS 11. There is an app, called Files, that can browse iCloud Drive, OneDrive and other cloud apps and store local copies. It can also use third party apps, such as FileBrowser to browse files stored on PCs, Macs and servers on networks to which your iOS device connects.

I use OneDrive for most of my storage that I need to be accessible from all my devices, so I effectively have all my important data available on iPhone and iPad in folders.

One of the reasons why I bailed on a iPad Pro was because you cannot easily save files locally. I mean, files created by a non Apple software.

Is that still the case?

[Zod]

TheJimi said:

Zod said:

GTO-3R said:

I'm thinking of trading my 2013 Retina MBP in for an iPad pro. Does the pro have a folder structure capability like an MBP or is it more like a regular iPad with just apps etc?

Folders were introduced with iOS 11. There is an app, called Files, that can browse iCloud Drive, OneDrive and other cloud apps and store local copies. It can also use third party apps, such as FileBrowser to browse files stored on PCs, Macs and servers on networks to which your iOS device connects.

I use OneDrive for most of my storage that I need to be accessible from all my devices, so I effectively have all my important data available on iPhone and iPad in folders.

One of the reasons why I bailed on a iPad Pro was because you cannot easily save files locally. I mean, files created by a non Apple software.

Is that still the case?

Yes, you can save documents locally now.

[TheJimi]

What, you can literally save any doc locally on the iPad itself?

[CrouchingWayne]

Craikeybaby said:

To be fair you don't need a MPB for 5% basic web design/programming - a MacBook would be more than enough for that!

Yea I think you're right - but h wacreen aize has put me off. Is 1440x900 a sufficient step up from my current (and a bit cramped) 1280x800?

[ZesPak]

CrouchingWayne said:

Yea I think you're right - but h wacreen aize has put me off. Is 1440x900 a sufficient step up from my current (and a bit cramped) 1280x800?

You're thinking about the MacBook Air, I think he was talking about the MacBook, which is 2304x1440.

But I agree on this though:

TheJimi said:

Basic MacBook and entry level MacBook Pro are the same price. MBP is better in everyway unless you *really* value the weight saving the MB offers .