Gadgetory

hey how's it going Dave 2d here and this is a video on the concept of using the iPad pro as a laptop replacement so I've been using mine for about three weeks with iOS 11 and I really feel like that's the operating system for these guys and well ever since I have existed people have been trying to use them with limited success as laptop replacements because it's quite appealing to thin they're light they're not too expensive and iOS 11 looked like I had a whole bunch of new features that would make it more viable let's take a look starting with media consumption iPads have always been great for watching videos and listening to music the 10 and a half inch iPad pro has four speakers and they sound awesome it's really weird that a tablet like this has better speakers unlike 99% of gaming laptops but it does it also has a really nice screen the 120 Hertz panel is excellent like straight up 10 to 10 you can literally see twice the number of animation frames in the UI so everything looks super smooth it's tough to showcase this in a video because they're seeing this at 24 frames per second but if you see it in real life you'll notice it right away the thing is nothing outside of the UI really makes use of that 120 Hertz panel you're not watching videos at 120 frames per second you're probably not playing games at 120 frames per second so the hardware is awesome but it just feels untapped for what the device does now if you're an artist the Apple pencil is really nice when you iPad pros the lower latency is noticeable to me I will say though if your master plan is to pick up an iPad pro and an Apple pencil to learn how to draw don't do it it's not going to happen start with paper and a pencil so there's two big things in iOS 11 that were really exciting to me drag-and-drop and files so drag and drop is a new us that allows you to drag and drop multiple objects and I have to say it's really well done and files is an app that allows you to store files like mail attachments or photos links downloads you can help place them into various cloud storage locations and it will show up on devices that have that cloud source so it'll show up on your laptop your desktop whatever it might be so be two features alone bring a level of usability that I've never seen before in an iPad I mean there were third-party apps to do this kind of stuff before but they just weren't nearly as fluid and well integrated as these I would say that it is a viable solution like if it had to I could get by with using the iPad pro as my only device and I think a lot of reviewers came to that similar conclusion that the new iPad pros running iOS 11 are a significantly better experience than iPads were in the past for using them as laptop replacements but after using this for a couple more weeks I thought what am I doing here like why is this still so difficult to use this as my laptop replacement it's not as fluid and it's not as nice as it should be I mean these devices have been around for six seven years and the touchscreen is never going to be as precise as a mouse if you're accessing websites or doing spreadsheets or database stuff poking on the screen like to click stuff it's usable but I'll never be faster than a mouse or trackpad and same with the drag-and-drop stuff I send photo attachments from work very frequently it works it's a welcome addition but a keyboard and a track that are just so much faster than this split-screen worst wait should but it's cramped and all the tapping and swiping you need to do to get this split swing going I'm fluent at the mechanics at this point I've done it so often I know other keyboard shortcuts I'm very familiar with them but it's still never going to be as fast as a laptop or tuned one running a full fledged operating system and that's my whole issue with this proposition if you're going to replace a laptop with this thing the experience has to be as good as the laptop that you're replacing or else why would you use this right the keyboard is not that I'm using the Apple one but if I had a choice I would never use this thing over a regular laptop keyboard and it isn't very slim once you add the keyboard onto the device it does thick as a Microsoft Surface pro or like a razor blade stealth the pricing isn't too expensive but once you add all the accessories and stuff it's like eight or nine hundred dollars which is in the realm of some really good ultrabooks in tune ones so the hardware on the iPad pro is excellent the actual tablet itself has so much potential it's gorgeous the screen is beautiful it's got amazing battery life that we took an easy eight or nine hour battery life on this thing I mean it's really really cool but the software cripples this thing iOS 11 is definitely a step in the right direction but I think it's still really far away from what this tablet can do if I had a completely different operating system that was more conducive to regular work so if media consumption is your jam like if you're just buying this to listen to music and watch videos go for it it's expensive but it does a really good job at it but if you're trying to use this thing to replace a laptop it's doable but it's still a giant pain in the ass