iPad Pro 12.9" with separate keyboard and pencil (stylus) Who's getting one

[GreyFox7]

Ref http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/9/9288241/apple-ipad-pro-announced-specs-price-release-date

Apparently there's some Microsoft Office Apps for it... too

Office is also going to be supporting Apple's new stylus, the Apple Pencil.

OK, Who's getting one???

Hmmm... No Track Pad

Full Specs via BGR
iPad Pro specs and features now official: Everything you need to know | BGR

iPad Pro Specs:

• Size: 6.9mm thin
• Weight: 1.57 pounds
• 12.9-inch Retina display
• 64-bit 16-nanometer Apple A9X processor (1.8x better than the A8X chip it replaces)
• M9 motion coprocessor
• 32/128GB of storage
• 8-megapixel iSight camera with f/2.2 aperture, 5-element lens, True Tone flash and 4K video recording
• Wi-Fi 802.11ac with MIMO
• LTE up to 150Mbps
• Bluetooth 4.0 LE
• Touch ID fingerprint sensor
• Battery life (10 hours of video/Wi-Fi browsing)
• Four speakers
• iOS 9 with special tablet-friendly multitasking features
• Apple Pencil stylus
• Special keyboard for iPad Pro – the Smart Keyboard
• Colors: Gold, Silver and Space Gray

RAM is 4GB according to a report by Adobe. The Air 2 only has 2GB.

Dimensions (Landscape) source Apple:
Width : 12 in 305.7 mm
Height: 8.68 in 220.6 mm
Thick : 0.27 in 6.9mm
IPad Pro = BAT (Big Assed Tablet)

 

[GreyFox7]

Apple claims performance better than 80% of portable PC's. (A non qualified statement if there ever was one)

From this Id estimate it wont beat a Broadwell or Skylake Core-M

 

[GreyFox7]

Yes I will kick the tires on this device... just because... that's what I do.

 

[jnjroach]

Why spend $1200 for an over-priced phone? Office is Office for iPad which is the mobile version....

 

[GreyFox7]

Because while articles like this about the Urban Myth of enterprise iPad are useful.
iPad Pro: Apple's enterprise-grade offering is an urban myth | ZDNet

There's nothing better than a clumsy demonstration showing just how it works in the real world.

To be sure they will be injected into environments whether I want it or not and as much as Id like to take the sales and marketing material at face value it's better to have first hand knowledge.

 

[jrioux]

Let's see... $949 for a 128 GB iPad Pro, plus $99 for the pencil and $169 for the keyboard... that's $1217 for the package.

Compare that to $999 for an SP3 with 128 GB and the pen plus $129 for the keyboard or $1128 for the package.

And just think, the iPad won't even let you attach a file when you reply to an email.

 

[hughlle]

It is truly amazing. We were all thinking that it might be some top of the line device with a special OS or something and this is it. What a bloody joke. The IPAD air 2 with with 64gb of ram is at the same price as the S3, that's a joke enough as it is.

 

[leeshor]

There are a lot of people who can wait to shell out that $1,200.00. If they came out with a Pro2 in 6 months many of them would do it again.

 

[jrioux]

There are a lot of people who can wait to shell out that $1,200.00. If they came out with a Pro2 in 6 months many of them would do it again.

Apple's obscene profits are dependent on an a steady stream of iSheep with more iMoney than iBrains.

 

[TeknoBlast]

Apple sure love their charts. I think those are the same ones from the last Apple event.

 

[GreyFox7]

I just wanted to draw attention to the Track Pad on the keyboard ... oops cant find it... well iOS wouldn't know what to do with it anyway. I see it has arrow keys but this is no doubt just for moving within text boxes as iOS doesn't do screen navigation with a cursor that's an app centric text box function only.

 

[daniielrp]

And just think, the iPad won't even let you attach a file when you reply to an email.

Well, it will.