About a year ago, Apple put the iPad Pro original on the market. It was a long-awaited tablet (almost two years since the first rumors) whose great contribution to the platform, in addition to Apple Pencil, was the size of your screen. Was also the most expensive iPad yet And although the specs of the model were notably raised compared to other iDevices, iOS still kept the same face.
En TabletZona We have been quite critical of the Pro concept incorporated into the iPad in recent generations. Logically, It is not because we believe that it is a less powerful machineQuite the contrary, it is possibly the best tablet that someone can buy if we add to its benefits the huge catalog of apps optimized for that format from the App Store. However, the marketing of the apple is oriented to make us think that the iPad Pro it's like a computer when, in our opinion, they are two completely different things.
12.9 iPad Pro: beyond 9.7 inches, same operating system
Removing amateur or professional users of the drawing, design, who are going to carry out a more intense and stable use of the Apple PencilMany will agree that the great virtue of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro is its size, and it is not something that is going to please everyone. As they point out in iPadInsight, What we gain in one field we lose in another: we will have a large area of display, interaction y work, but the portability and size of a 10-inch tablet, which we can take from home in a bag comfortably, are not present in the equation.
Our diagnosis in this regard would almost be the following: it is about the biggest screen in which one can enjoy iOS and that has some advantages, but little else.
Open war between the Surface Pro 4 and the iPad Pro: Both tablets want to be a computer
12.9-inch iPad Pro vs Surface 4 Pro: different languages for supported devices
What the iPad Pro 12.9 lacks is just what the Surface Pro 4 has and vice versa. The Apple tablet has a lightweight operating system in which the applications of the App Store work wonderfully, but there is no possibility of loading heavy programs, despite its 4GB of RAM. In fact, the 9.7-inch model works with only 2GB and it doesn't matter.
La Surface Pro 4 it's great as an ultrabook, and as a pure tablet it could work great if it had apps to do it with. Both Apple and Microsoft aspire to the same, the total device. However, neither of the two companies for the moment has achieved it, and it is that a mixture of its two tablets would approach it, but what one lacks is what the other has left over.