Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Was hoping they’d keep the same starting price

Do you even Apple bro?

Ha, alway hope, end up paying.

Shame it runs iPadOS. Bought an M1 Pro a while a go and the hardware is amazing, can’t say the same for the os though. Still feels very held back

Assume iOS 18 will have some changes but 🤷🏼‍♂️

I had the same issue of having one but just ended up using my phone or Mac for everything.

Echo that. Now pondering swapping my MBP 16 M1 Pro for an 15 m3 air. Feels like it could be a good merge of iPad portability and MacBook usefulness

My costco M2 Pro is great, absolute flys on renders and i'm very happy to have bought it.

Only thing i'm not so sure of is the 14" going from the 15 but its fine the screen is nice and bright although not sure if I should have got a 16 but it'll be good for travelling and editing on age fly and ill get a decent monitor once I move into my new place.

Pretty much the same - the M1 iPad ended up only used for TrainerRoad, or occasionally to cast hooky football streams to the TV while turboing. Everything else either a phone or computer does better.

Is this not the issue with all ipads since forever?

Great for kids, traveling, and payment tills. Otherwise it's sort of a massive smartphone with less connectivity.

pretty much. Only tablet I've owned. Probably put enough hours on the turbo that it's not completely wasted, but I've bought/sold keyboards and stylus' in the unrealistic expectation it'll make it more useful
It's an excellent TrainerRoad client though. A snip at ~£800 ⛳

I have an iPad Air 4 that I attempted to use as my only computer, definitely a bad idea for my use case. Until they actually become a laptop lite I’ll be going back to the og MacBook for my next one.

All this. But aren’t we asking the iPad to be the MacBook Air, which already exists.?

Good point well made 🙂

iPad vs laptop (which is better full stop) isn’t the point though is it? It’s good that there is a choice. It might not work for you, but iPad is my only non-work computer at home. All I need is webbing, simple word and spreadsheets, minor photo editing, and watching stuff in the kitchen. It’s like a phone but better when I’m at home cos it has a bigger screen. It’s like a laptop but better because it’s smaller and handheld, not a thing I have to rest on my lap.

I think the point is a lot of people realize they want it to be more and then buy the keyboard etc. - and then it becomes a "laptop lite" which is cool in a way, but actually very expensive and still not as functional as a real laptop, so what they basically want / needed in the first place is a MacBook Air..

Yeah true. I’ve never gone down the make it another thing path.

It’s all in preparation for WWDC though and the chip- esp with its GPU- has surely direct relevance for Apple’s stealthy growth in AI/NM capability.
I’m hoping for some on-device stuff. But let’s see.
Certainly their hugging-face and press release is promising…

I got a 2020 iPad Pro from work with the keyboard and the pencil. It mostly just functioned as a second screen with Sidecar which was incredibly helpful at the time. It was then rarely used. Slowly it became my primary home device for the last couple of years for web browsing, emails and basic office stuff. Still don’t know what to do with the Pencil?

The MacBook Pro I bought at the same time now has half its battery life, fans whizzing constantly and it has a meltdown with Teams. The iPad Pro is still has long battery life and is pretty snappy in comparison.

If you're not too ham-fisted I do recommend buying a pentalobe screwdriver and some plektrums, and opening the thing (your MacBook Pro) up - this is what mine looked like after 2,5 years, after I just pulled all the fluff out it's now back to being completely silent 95% of the time..

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Mine is prob worse

I’m assuming this is a me problem, as if have heard about the Eurotunnel site being down for three days?

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It's just you. Can't see anything about a shutdown. What dates are you planning on travelling through it?

7th of June- bad idea?

No problems either way on that day.

I remember there was lots of this when they first came out. Lots of tech folk bemoaning that they weren't a smaller MacBook, and that they were a joke and wouldn't sell, because who needs a larger phone?

Then Apple sold gazillions of them.

I get for a lot of folks, they don't really work well, but they must be great for a bunch of folk we are not, coz' Apple keep shifting and making them.

I think the maddest thing is that, once you add the keyboard, because the base has to be artificially heavy in order to balance the weight of the battery in the iPad itself (i.e the screen) it is actually heavier than a MacBook, at the same size...

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