In June 2017, I bought a 10.5-inch iPad Pro, sent a circle of friends, and finally, next week I am going to throw away the MacBook Pro and try the iPad office.
It turns out that I’m still too young.
In November 2018, I bought an 11-inch iPad Pro. I still want to find the legendary productivity. At the same time, I also experienced the hammer TNT for a period of time. At the time, I realized a truth.
Cook’s productivity, Luo Yonghao’s productivity, and my productivity are not a productivity.
Until the new iPad Pro goes on sale in 2020, I finally feel that regardless of Teacher Luo, who is going to be a webcaster, Apple, I finally understand what I want, but productivity? Don’t ask me what is productivity.
It has been three years and I have used three generations of iPad Pro. My biggest gain is whether there is productivity or not, first depends on what you produce.
For example, I can never draw a beautiful picture with iPad Pro. This is not an iPad Pro problem, it is my own problem.
In a way, iPadOS brings more operations to the entire iPad product line than a single iOS, and it can release more of this big screen’s ability.
But before the official version of iPadOS 13.4 is released tomorrow, everyone trying to work with iPad will face an extremely painful problem, that is, repeated finger clicks and swipes.
We are already familiar with the keyboard and mouse or trackpad as the input tool and the screen as the output tool, so that even if the keyboard does not have lettering, we can know what we are typing. Stop directly at the position you want, without having to move your hands over a wide range. It’s much more efficient than the iPad.
But when the iPad supports a touchpad, it finally looks like a computer.
The new keyboard case released with the 2020 iPad Pro will ship in May and sell for 2399 and up. Although the previous generation iPad Pro is also available, for ordinary users, the design details are really good, but still a bit expensive. .
Fortunately, all iPads support upgrading to iPadOS 13.4, and all support external touchpads.
The touchpad is the thinnest layer of window paper between the iPad and the computer. If you break through this layer of paper, the iPad can be infinitely close to the computer.
A small dot will appear the moment you slide the trackpad. When you get close to the icon or button, it will be directly attracted to it without blocking the view. The operation that originally required long-press activation only required two-finger taps to quickly call out, and three-finger gestures are also available. If you are using a Mac, the process of getting started with iPadOS is seamless. On the desktop, support for a touchpad is much faster, more convenient and more accurate than tapping on the screen.
From my personal experience, I use iPad Pro to play games, watch dramas, write and draw with Apple pencil, reply to WeChat with smart keyboard, write emails, edit pictures, write drafts, cut simple videos, and even Be a computer second screen when traveling.
The iPad supports an Apple Pencil that is easy to lose but easy to use, plus the gradual improvement of iPadOS, iPad Pro has become an indispensable device in my daily life.
But the iPad is infinitely close to a computer, not not. The reason is also very simple. For many professional users, the iPad Pro is really strong, but the ultimate barrier is the ecology of professional applications.
Returning to the theme, from the experience of use, the new 2020 iPad Pro is currently almost indistinguishable from my 2018 iPad Pro. Although it is undeniable that the A12Z is indeed stronger than the A12X, the rear dual The camera and lidar can also support more functions than a single camera, but in the final analysis, it is still an iPad. The price of a matching keyboard alone is enough to buy a new iPad Pro for the entry-level iPad, and an iPad mini. When people use it, the probability is not too bad.
But I still think the 2020 iPad Pro is worth buying.
First of all, the iPad is a very long-lived device. The iPad Pro will only be updated once every 16 months. The frequency of your iPad change is definitely much lower than that of your mobile phone. Buying an iPad with the highest performance means that The current redundant performance may be used in the future for a professional app or a large game that you can use.
In addition, even if you look at the price and configuration, the new iPad Pro is more cost-effective than the 2018 iPad Pro. There is no longer a bad 64G in the body storage. Instead, it starts at 128G and has better performance. Not to mention Because the majority of students have to go online for lessons, the iPad has also been in short supply. The price of third-party channels is higher than the original price. Spending more money on a 128G iPad Pro is actually not a loss.
Finally, there is a new lidar, although the apps and games in the app store now have AR area, but in fact there are not many apps, this function is to prepare for more applications in the future. Intuitively, because of the addition of lidar assistance, the response speed and accuracy of the ranging function have been improved a lot compared to the previous generation iPad Pro. From available to easy to use.
What about keyboard covers with touchpad from 2399? The design is very good, just buy a sentence, if you are willing to pay for a good design, start, otherwise, you can choose a more affordable solution.
However, if you do n’t have a big budget, iPad is enough.
Actually, every generation of iPad Pro is compared with Surface Pro, especially when iPad Pro adds a keyboard with a touchpad, but in fact, iPad Pro is essentially a tablet like a computer, and Surface Pro, on the other hand, is a tablet-like computer with similar shapes and extremely different positioning.
Although almost every user regrets that the iPad Pro is software that can’t keep up with the hardware, it would be nice if the system was replaced with macOS, but in fact, the iPad Pro does not use macOS. It is really not Apple’s ability to protect the Mac’s gold absorption line It is the tablet product form of iPad. At this stage, it is not suitable for operating extremely complicated desktop operating systems. To some extent, the value of the iPad, just as Jobs wanted to achieve when the first generation of the iPad was first launched, is the third screen between the phone and the computer, and the iPadOS is also moving in this direction. It is like iOS Also, like macOS, some functions of mobile phones and computers are indeed not available for iPad, but some functions, iPhone is too light, Mac is too heavy, iPad is just right.