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the iPad pro is Apple's biggest tablet yet and the company even thinks that you could use this thing instead of a laptop but it's not true with me is my colleague Andy hello Andy hello and Andy has been using the iPad pro as his main computer for a week and he's going to share his thoughts so this is a twelve point nine inch tablet it's absolutely massive firstly tell me Andy having used it how does the size impact productivity it just makes everything a lot easier you've got so much more screen real estate to see web pages look much better and they're big working on text documents just writing word processing such a basic task but it's made much better by having a big screen and of course when you can now use two apps side by side having that bigger screen makes that so much easier to do so let's talk about the keyboard and the stylus or as Apple calls it the pencil now something I think everyone is going to be keen to know is are these two accessories actually useful or are they just a gimmick they are really useful I mean we've had third-party keyboards to work with Apple's iPad air before now but because it's smaller they're not full size keyboards this one is and it's super comfortable to type on so actually you can really work on long emails and long documents I've written 2,000 word articles on this thing perfectly comfortably I couldn't do that before of course the pencil is really accurate so if you're working on photo editing for example or sketching you can do that really easily with this are there any times where it's really let you down and you've had to put aside the iPad pro and go back to a different computer yes so it doesn't support RAW files so for my photography that's an issue switch back to my MacBook Pro and it doesn't play that well with some Google accounts when you're using them on corporate networks which we do all the time so syncing calendars and emails can be a bit tricky and of course much of the screen size helps some things when you're doing a lot of heavy multitasking if you're doing a lot of work you need a lot of windows open at once different tabs in finder for example which you can get on the MacBook it's still not quite as easy so if I'm doing heavy work I will still switch back big question is could you buy this instead of a laptop yes I would tell you absolutely can but you should actually think carefully about what it is you actually want to do from it if you need USB pods people give you files here's the new document work on this please you're going to have to use Dropbox or things like that but of course no USB port but you can work well on this thing the keyboard is great it's got so much power and that big screen does make most office ass you would ever want to do super easy and of course the end of the day you still haven't got a tablet for entertainment and that's great it does of both things you want so that's what Andy thinks about the iPad pro but what are your thoughts on Apple's gigantic tablet let us know what you think and stay tuned to see Netcom