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Apple—or at the very least, its CEO—thinks the iPad is the future of computing. It's not shy about that idea. “Why would you buy a PC anymore?” Tim Cook, who reportedly does 80 percent of his work on the device, asked the crowd at an Apple store in London...

The screen is big and beautiful. This tablet is crazy fast. It still has the same battery life, performance, and great app selection as any iPad. With the accessories, the Pro becomes a doeverything sort of device...

Its PCkilling visions imagine a world in which nobody lives. It's really big. The price gets high fast...
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Several weeks ago, Razer introduced their new Ultra Low-Profile Mechanical Switches which attempts to solve one of the biggest hurdles to mechanical switches being implemented in portable applications – size. Up until this point, mechanical switches were...

Razer has always been very innovative in the mechanical keyboard arena, being one of the first to introduce a mechanical gaming keyboard, being one of the first to develop their own switch, and now being one of the first to unveil a product carrying a low...
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The iPad Pro is 2016's hottest new accessory, taking the best features from Apple's previous models and putting a new spin on the perennially popular mobile tablet. With a wider screen, more RAM and a powerful GPU, the iPad Pro packs an almighty punch. Bu...

If you're looking for a tablet with a bigger screen, the iPad Pro might be for you. It comes jam packed with features, is equipped with iOS 9 and has a front-facing camera for quick and easy snaps. Then there's the battery life – which is considerably mor...
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Tablets were the big thing a few years ago, purportedly soon to displace PCs. It didn't happen, and tablet sales have been dropping for several years. Except for one kind of tablet: the kind with a detachable keyboard, epitomized by Microsoft's Surface Pr...
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I'm went iOS-only for awhile and chronicled it. Here's day one.Shortly after buying an iPad Pro last November, I abandoned my Macs for an iOS-only test drive. If you're thinking about buying an iPad Pro and want to know how to truly get the most out of it...
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The iPad Pro raised some eyebrows when it debuted last year, but it really shouldn't have. Although tablet sales as a whole have been tanking, sales of tablets with detachable keyboards have actually grown . Is it any surprise, then, that Apple built a 9...

Fantastic screen, Slim design with excellent build quality, Strong performance, Best iPad camera yet...

iOS still isn't great at multitasking, Only has half the RAM of the larger model, Optional keyboard is cramped...

Calling it a full-blown laptop replacement is a stretch, but Apple's new 9.7-inch iPad Pro is the best conventional tablet the company has made. It combines the power of the original 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the thin frame of the iPad Air 2. Additional...
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The iPad Pro is now just over three months old, which means we've had time to make it part of our lives — or put it on the shelf.I've written a lot about the iPad Pro lately — but it's time for the rest of iMore's staff to weigh in. Three months into iPad...
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Over the past week and a half I've been using the app Adobe Photoshop Sketch for iOS with the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. It's not what I expected. I expected it to be an experience in which the stylus (the Apple Pencil) would be speedy and the app would h...

Adobe Photoshop Sketch is a perfect example of why artists and designers should give the iPad Pro some real thoughtful consideration. Along with the Apple Pencil, the iPad Pro and Adobe Photoshop Sketch feel as though they were made for one another.I'd sa...
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First and foremost, it's the fastest and most powerful iPad to date. Everything feels faster than on any other iPad I own or have used. For example, editing photos and videos is virtually lag-free, and opening and working with large documents is noticeabl...
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At this point it probably isn't a secret that tablet sales have leveled off, and in some cases they have declined. Pretty much anywhere you care to look you'll see evidence that the tablet market just isn't as strong as it once was. It's undeniable that t...

Overall, the iPad Pro has proven to be a very different experience for me than previous iPads. The design is definitely familiar, with the same industrial design and general feel as previous iPads scaled up to a 12.9” form factor. However, the change in s...
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When it was unveiled in September last year, the iPad Pro was derided by critics as being a carbon copy of Microsoft's Surface Pro. Here was a large-screen touch device, which came with a detachable keyboard and cover that looked suspiciously like the sam...

Stunning screen, great performance, good battery life...

Expensive, requires a new way of working...
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If there's one thing you should have learned about Apple by now, it's to never take their absolute statements seriously. Not long after Jobs' handed over control to Tim Cook, the iPad shrunk, the iPhone grew and now we've seen one of Apple's boldest state...

Buy it if you want a productive iPad and can stomach the cost, otherwise a MacBook Air will cost you less and provide a more capable OS at the expense of size and the iOS ecosystem...
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I buy only from these approved sources. I can't vouch for ads below.My Apple iPad Pro came from Santa for Christmas 2015. I asked for it to supercede my perfectly good iPad 2 to give me a bigger, better screen for watching movies and showing my photos.Lit...
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Big – Bigger – iPad Pro! The iPad Air is getting huge and gets the stylus functionality for the first time. The Apple Pencil is mainly designed for creative users. The Californians also equip the tablet with the fastest SoC you can currently get in a tabl...

great design and build quality, very good stylus (optional), fast SoC, excellent display, great speakers, very good runtimes...

scaling of iOS, weak and hot power adaptor, long charging times, no NFC, only LTE Cat. 4, expensive accessories...

Even though many users think that it is an affront that Apple has developed a large tablet and even a corresponding pen, the result is very convenient. The Californians certainly did not reinvent the device class, but once again, they have managed to inte...
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Every day, Macworld brings you the essential daily news and other info about all things Apple. But staying on top of that torrent of information can be a constant challenge. One solution: the Macworld Digital Edition. Available as single copies or with a...
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The iPad Pro, long rumored, is finally here. As can sometimes be the case with Apple's products, it has sparked strong debate and discussion about who it is for, and whether or not it can replace your notebook. Not in a vacuum ourselves, we felt obliged t...

A9X chip has power to burn, 12.9inch Retina display is stunning, Incredible audio performance, Extensive iPadoptimized app ecosystem, Smart Keyboard is a welcome addition, Apple Pencil is the best stylus on the market...

iOS still has some limitations, Peripherals add considerably to cost, Builtin apps could have been taken further...

Apple has not left any powder dry when it comes to the iPad Pro -- it has packed every piece of its technology and all of its ideas into making a device that showcases what it believes is the future of mobile computing. As is often the case with Apple, an...
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wegotserved.com Updated: 2016-10-21 04:08:57
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Back in April 2010, I happened to be in New York for a city break, walking around, taking in the sites, enjoying the food and generally soaking up all that is the ‘Big Apple' no pun intended.Walking along the lower edge of Central park, the other half an...

During the launch, Apple made a point of stating that the iPad Pro can replace Your laptop. I don't really think that is the case. It's not THAT device, at least not yet. Most laptops have access to so much more business-class productivity software and...
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computershopper.com Updated: 2016-10-21 04:08:57
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That all changed in November 2015. With the Apple iPad Pro, launched after endless rumor-mongering, Apple has broken into the market for “oversize tablets”—models with more than 10 inches of screen. The iPad Pro's 12.9-inch, 2,732x2,048-pixel display is 7...

Gorgeous, large display, Surprisingly thin and light for size, Exceptional graphics processing, Four powerful speakers, Can connect keyboard sans pairing, wires, or batteries...

Stylus is pricey, not attachable, Keyboard case has few stand positions, So-so battery life, No built-in stand, USB ports, MicroSD slot...

Apple may be playing catch-up, issuing its first oversize tablet, but the iPad Pro cuts no corners: It's a fittingly luxurious take on the form. Read More…...
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I dont like laptops. There, I said it. I dont hate them, but for years Ive felt they can be improved in many different ways. So when Apple made the iPad Pro, I paid attention. Could this be the product Id been dreaming of all this time? The short answ...
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Apples souped-up iPad Pro is supposed to be a laptop replacement–yet as many have already pointed out, it just isnt up to the task. So I decided to use the iPad Pro as its namesake suggests: As a fucking huge iPad. To my surprise, I liked it.I dont lik...
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For productivity, for creative professionals, and for people for whom traditional computers are inaccessible, Apple offers the iPad Pro."That's no MacBook..."We weren't coming out of hyperspace. We were coming out of Apple's September event. And it rose u...

A giant display, Improved keyboard integration, Optional pencil input...

A pocketable tablet, A traditional laptop, OS X or Windows software...

The iPad Pro is the biggest, most powerful hand-held window into the internet and apps that Apple has ever released. It's also something new and doesn't yet take full advantage of all that size or power. It is, as Tim Cook says, "the clearest expression o...
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Here we are. Apple, the same company that once swore off styluses, and dismissed hybrid PCs as experiments gone wrong, is now selling a laptop/tablet mashup of its own. One that accepts pen input, at that. The new 12.9-inch iPad Pro went on sale last week...

Well-built, Robust performance, Bright, pixel-dense screen, Lighter than you'd expect, Smooth, precise pen input, Surprisingly good audio, Long battery life...

Expensive, especially with the accessories sold separately, Still heavy compared to other tablets, No mouse support; none of the keyboards have touchpads, Screen angle isn't adjustable on any of the keyboards, iOS 9 doesn'tmultitask as wellas desktop oper...

The Create is the first third-party keyboard for the iPad Pro. Though it suffers from some of the same drawbacks as Apple's offering, it's still the clear winner, with handy shortcut keys, backlighting and a more comfortable typing experience. If you're...
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Well, I tried. I tried the whole “use the iPad Pro instead of my computer for a week” thing and barely lasted a day. It doesn't fit my workflow like my MacBook Air does, so I stopped trying to force it—and that's OK. Apple's newest largest tablet doesn't...

Excellent battery life, Plenty of speed and power...

Software keyboard bug...

If price is no object, the iPad Pro plus the Apple Pencil let you do more with Apple's tablet than ever before...
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I used to think that the size of the iPad Air 2 is just right: a 9.7-inch screen that should be enough for me to browse online or use my favorite apps or simply it as a productivity tool. There has been rumors that Apple was preparing to launch a big-scre...

Excellent screen, Slim and lightweight for its size, Superb Pencil accessory, Loud speakers...

iOS is starting to how its limitations, Not all apps are updated yet for the bigger screen, Expensive...

That's the big question isn't it? Will the iPad Pro completely replace your notebook? Not quite. The iPad is still a tablet and if you are looking for more computing power then this may not be the product for you. It's a perfect tool for creativity though...
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Standing alone, the iPad Pro is a pretty confusing product. Priced within a stone's throw of the much-more-capable MacBook Air and packing dimensions closer to a desktop monitor than anything you'd willingly include in your everyday carry bag, Apple's lat...

Huge display, Multitasking that makes the most of the screen, Incredibly good speakers, All-weekend battery life...

Surprisingly buggy software, Lackluster cameras, Almost as expensive as a laptop, even without core accessories...

That puts the iPad Pro in the same league as the MacBook Air ($899) and at the higher trims it even gets close to the base model MacBook Pro ($1299) – and here we come to the fundamental problem with the iPad Pro. If you're spending much the same money...
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The iPad Pro is a beautiful iPad with a name that practically promises productivity, but after a week trying to work the new iPad Pro into my workflow I'm returning it to the Apple Store.There's no doubting the power that the iPad Pro brings to users. It...
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The iPad Pro is a strange device. Like other Apple products, it has a premium, polished design and is (in some ways) delightful to use. But it also shows Apple playing the unfamiliar role of follower – and (in some ways) not doing a particularly good job...
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The experiment continues with a plane ride and a lot of sketching.Welcome back to the iPad Pro Experiment, where I'm using an iPad Pro, Logitech Create Keyboard, and Apple Pencil in lieu of my traditional laptop setup. We go on the road in this installmen...
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Since going on sale earlier this month, Tim Cook has been bullish on the iPad Pro. Not only does he believe it's the best iPad you can buy, but the Apple CEO also thinks it can completely replace your PC.“I think if you're looking at a PC, why would you b...
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macworld.com Updated: 2016-10-21 04:08:57
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Review of Apple's iPad Pro...
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networkworld.com Updated: 2016-10-21 04:08:57
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Can iOS work for you? The 12.9-inch Apple iPad Pro ($799 for 32GB, $949 for 128GB) looks like a very large tablet, but really, it's more like the first iOS laptop. It's easily as powerful as a midrange laptop, and it can do things that other laptops can't...

Laptop-level power, Surprisingly light, Pencil accessory is the best stylus experience on a mainstream tablet...

Very expensive, Touch-centric UI with keyboard is awkward, Apps don't quite complete your workflow...

Apple's supersized iPad Pro brings the concept of a digital sketchbook to the next level, but now iOS app developers have to match the power of OS X and Windows apps...
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Had trouble reading every single word of my iPad Pro review ? It's okay, writing all of those words was kind of hard, too. For those of you with shorter attention spans, here's the abridged version: Apple's biggest-ever tablet isn't for me, but it could b...

Well-built, Robust performance, Bright, pixel-dense screen, Lighter than you'd expect, Smooth, precise pen input, Surprisingly good audio, Long battery life...

Expensive, especially with the accessories sold separately, Still heavy compared to other tablets, No mouse support; none of the keyboards have touchpads, Screen angle isn't adjustable on any of the keyboards, iOS 9 doesn'tmultitask as wellas desktop oper...

The iPad Pro isn't for everyone: It performs well, but iOS 9 isn't as adept at multitasking as a laptop operating system, and the lack of any mouse input can get tiresome. That said, its fast performance and smooth pen input could be useful for creati...
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In the world of tablets, the iPad still stands at the top – unrivaled since its inception, with no equal capable of relinquishing its control of the market. When you have such an influential product, it begs the question of how you can innovate it furthe...

Signature iPad design with premium built quality, Lightweight & svelte given its large footprint, True sidebyside multitasking with iOS 9, New features with onscreen keyboard, Impressive processing power, Best sounding speakers in a tablet...

Pricey starting cost of $799, Few apps are optimized to take advantage of its larger screen, Not all apps are supported by its enhanced multitasking features, Battery life could've been longer, Extremely long recharge time...

Apple has enjoyed, for several years now, how its iPad line cruised over the competition with ease – the iPad Air and iPad mini tablets were and remain among the best offerings in their respective categories. To broaden its presence, Apple is now giving u...
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iPad Pro review: We review the biggest iPad to date, the mighty 12.9-inch iPad Pro, but is it also the best?Apple's iPad Pro was teased a full year before it finally launched, so we already knew what to expect from this whopping great tablet. This is the...

Spacious, sharp screen, Impressive power, Well-designed accessories, All-day battery...

Pricey, Accessories come separate, Niche...

The iPad Pro is the natural choice if you want a tablet that can handle intensive office tasks and creative suites on the go, thanks to its spacious screen, impressive performance, precision control and all-day battery life. However, it's also very expens...
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If you're wondering whether the iPad Pro is worth $799 -- and up to $1,067 when you add the keyboard and stylus -- it's best to start with this realization in mind: This 12.9-inch supersize tablet is not a laptop replacement or a Surface Pro killer, even...

Gorgeous 5-million pixel display, Apple Pencil makes drawing silky smooth, Powerful quad speakers, Speedy A9X processor, Very long battery life...

Too large for one-handed use, Keyboard lacks touchpad, Nowhere to put Apple Pencil, iOS 9 not fully optimized for big screen...
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For years, we'd heard rumors of a mega-sized Apple tablet, and decided almost right away that we would refer to the product as the “iPad Pro.” It was an educated guess, but it seemed to match Apple's naming conventions, and to be quite honest, it simply m...

A big, beautiful screen that improves many tablet experiences, including watching videos and looking at photos. Extremely fast. Very good, intelligent speakers for an unparalleled audio experience on iPad. Smart Connector opens up new accessory possibilit...

Expensive. Can be unwieldy and uncomfortable to use at times. Accessories add to price, making it no less expensive than a laptop. Portability suffers due to larger size. Some apps look “off” on huge screen. Though the device is not ideal for photography...

Pros: A big, beautiful screen that improves many tablet experiences, including watching videos and looking at photos. Extremely fast. Very good, intelligent speakers for an unparalleled audio experience on iPad. Smart Connector opens up new accessory poss...
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Over the years, many businesspeople who like Apple's previous tablets asked for a larger version because a 9.7-inch display isn't ideal for use all day long. The result is the iPad Pro, a tablet with a screen that's 78% larger than the iPad Air 2's.Profes...

One of the biggest displays on the market, Outstanding performance, Four speakers, Can be turned into 2in1 laptop with optional keyboard, Immense battery life...

Comparatively bulky, No removable memory card slot, Lightning port instead of USBC, Expensive...

The 12.9-inch display makes the iPad Pro the most productive tablet Apple has ever produced, and also the best suited for watching video. It's certainly not as portable as the company's 9.7-inch models, though...
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Welcome back to the iPad Pro Experiment! I took the weekend off from screens (save for watching a little Fallout 4 action) to continue with doctor-mandated recovery time, but we're back today with Friday's full-filled iPad Pro adventures.Want to read abou...
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The iPad Pro is Apple's most fully realized example yet of the future of computing, with a workhorse of a processor and a beautiful 12.9-inch Retina display packed inside a svelte, ultraportable design. Current limitations with iOS apps prevent it from be...

In Stock at B&H Photo, 32GB Gold WiFi Only for $799.00, 128GB Gold WiFi Only for $949.00, 12.9-inch iPad Pro, The 12.9-inch iPad Pro is Apple's largest iPad to date with a Ret...

iOS 9 needs more consistent cross-app support and a easy file system to replace OS X for power users, Apps don't yet properly utilize the larger screen size, even some of Apple's own, Apple cheaped out with last-gen cameras and Touch ID, Where to buy, Alo...

A pessimist might dismiss the iPad Pro as a "gamble," but to do so would be foolish. What the iPad Pro does and what it promises feel like inevitabilities, in many ways. Rather than a gamble, the iPad Pro is instead a bold statement from Apple about the...
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Welcome to day two of my journey working solely on my iPad Pro and iPhone 6s Plus! I was a little more mobile on Thursday, which allowed me to test the portability of the iPad Pro, its cellular data connection, and get some good writing done.Want to read...
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You already know it's big, and that it's powerful, but does the iPad Pro have what it takes to survive on the road as a true notebook replacement? Apple's 12.9-inch tablet is the biggest outing for iOS to-date, and just as we realized back when it was fir...
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The iPad Pro reviews are in, since the product has been launched in stores this week and they seem positive. However, it's the core user who matters the most and in this case a designer takes the stage, reviewing the latest Apple slate and the way it chan...
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“PCs are going to be like trucks. They are still going to be around, they're still going to have a lot of value, but they're only going to be used by one out of x people.” – Steve Jobs, 2010...
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The iPad Pro is not something you can review in a couple of days. That's not because it's a new product category or even a dramatic reimagining of one—we've all used iPads by now, and more or less understand what kinds of tasks they can do and apps they c...
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What's it like to use the new iPad Pro ? After rushing out to the Apple Store to be one of the first shoppers to buy the 12.9-inch tablet I spent the last 24 hours using the 128GB iPad Pro to see how it fits into my daily life.The results were a little su...
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This year, Apple seems to want to push the iPad and the Mac as close together as it can without actually combining them into a single product. Earlier this spring, the new MacBook brought a super slim profile, a Retina display, and a simple-to-a-fault one...

Excellent performance—the A9X is Apple's fastest chip by a big margin and the iPad Pro has double the RAM of any other iDevice, Hardware is well-built and fairly light for its size, Smart Keyboard creates a surprisingly flat, stable typing surface for you...

Expensive, especially for a tablet, and especially if you're adding $250 worth of accessories to it, iOS 9 has been out for two months, and we're still waiting for many apps to add support for the multitasking features (and, by extension, the iPad Pro's b...
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Apple may never give us a touchscreen MacBook , but, for now, we have the next best thing: The iPad Pro and its companion Smart Keyboard.This once-fabled behemoth of a tablet is now real and, to be frank, rather remarkable. At 12.9 inches, its screen is a...

Amazing screen, Breathtaking power, Excellent Smart Keyboard and Pencil accessories...

The accessories cost extra, Too big to hold up for any period of time...

The Apple iPad Pro is the first workhorse iPad that, if you kick in for the accessories, could change your work life.Share this reviewShareTweetChief CorrespondentLance UlanoffTech EditorPete PachalProduct AnalystRaymond WongVideo ProducerMark BoyerPhotos...
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Too big to failWhen I first picked up the iPad Pro at an Apple event this past September, I couldn't help but laugh a little bit. For one, its size: it is holy-crap-look-at-this-iPad big. And with a price tag that easily jumps up to around a thousand doll...

Large, beautiful display, Powerful processor, Precise stylus, Split-screen multitasking...

It's expensive, It's really big, Overpriced accessory keyboard, Not quite a PC replacement...

More times than not, the Verge score is based on the average of the subscores below. However, since this is a non-weighted average, we reserve the right to tweak the overall score if we feel it doesn't reflect our overall assessment and price of the produ...
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The iPad Pro is a giant iPad. The 12.9-inch addition to Apple's tablet line-up went on sale today, and according to early looks at the Pro from a few major publications, the massive iPad will be familiar to anyone who's used one of its predecessors. But i...
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For the past week, I've been working on a review of the iPad Pro. For better or worse it has been a very quick week and I've been working on the review right up to the embargo time. Rather than rushing out our review of Apple's first large-format tablet i...

First and foremost, the most unexpected news here is that unlike A8X, A9X is not packing a triple-core CPU. Instead A9X drops back down to just a pair of Twister CPU cores. The twist here is that relative to A8X and A9, Apple has cranked up their CPU cloc...
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wsj.com
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The iPad Pro is like one of those Magic Eye posters. You can look at it for hours and still keep asking yourself: “Wait... what is it?”It's Apple's first tablet/laptop convertible! No, it's an artist's sketchbook! Never mind, it's totally an enterprise-fo...
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Is the iPad Pro as fast as a laptop?Posted Wednesday, November 11th, 2015 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientistNovember 12th, 2015, added a MacBook Air and MacBook Pro to Geekbench graphGeekbench 3 runs under both iOS and OS X. So we used it to compare the com...
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3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited: 33,353Google Octane: 20,407Beyond the impressive but currently unobtainable Pencil, the iPad Pro doesn't do anything more than the iPad Air 2--it runs the same OS and apps and the OS isn't particularly tailored to make better u...

Huge screen is great for movies, spreadsheets and video editing. Fast! Excellent pen...

Very expensive, Pencil and Apple keyboard pretty much unavailable for a month. As big and heavy as a 13" MacBook Air when paired with keyboard...

I like Apple products and own several-- the 13" Retina MacBook Pro, iPad mini 4 and the Apple Watch to name a few. Try though I might, you can tell that I haven't managed to fall in love with the iPad Pro. It's as expensive as a high end 13" laptop, but i...
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iPad Pro: Why Is A Bigger Better?Posted Thursday, September 17th, 2015 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientistUpdated Reason 3 on September 18th.REASON 1: Laptop Size ScreenIf, like me, you are using your iPad as a laptop surrogate, then having a laptop size scr...
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Apple—or at the very least, its CEO—thinks the iPad is the future of computing. It's not shy about that idea. “Why would you buy a PC anymore?” Tim Cook, who reportedly does 80 percent of his work on the device, asked the crowd at an Apple store in London...

The screen is big and beautiful. This tablet is crazy fast. It still has the same battery life, performance, and great app selection as any iPad. With the accessories, the Pro becomes a doeverything sort of device...

Its PCkilling visions imagine a world in which nobody lives. It's really big. The price gets high fast...
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Both Apple's and Microsoft's flagship tablet devices are large, powerful and elegant. But which is best for musicians?Last year both Apple and Microsoft introduced new products representing each company's vision for tablet computing. For Apple, it was the...
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Tablets with detachable keyboards are an established segment of the mobile device market...
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Posted September 11th, 2018 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientistOn the eve of Apple's rollout of the 2018 iPad Pro (3rd Generation), I thought it would be a good time to revisit how the 2017 iPad Pro (2nd Generation) compares to the top 2018 13-inch MacBook...
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