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1.0 out of 5 starsNeeds improvements on small things; not worth it for me...
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2019
1) If you can imagine every limitation that a tablet would have over a desktop replacement, this has it all—seriously don’t fool yourself like this would be a suitable replacement for a laptop, it’s not. If you want to make the jump to doing note taking and work flow management on a tablet then this is right for you. This doesn’t so much apply to me, but they oversold this as something that ‘could potentially’ replace a laptop, and it just can’t—not as an app-based OS.
2) Battery life sucks - pretty much only get that 10 hour battery life when it’s in my bag and not being used lol. I’ve watched several YouTube videos with advice on saving battery life, disabling apps, function, location tracing, etc., in an effort to prolong my battery life but to no avail. It just dies fast and that robs me of my freedom if I’m always plugged in.
3) Thanks for the 3” (sarcasm) USB-C cable Apple, what the hell am I supposed to do with it, let the iPad dangle from my wall while I charge it? $1200 only to get an nonsensically short charging cable is just such a petty thing to do on Apples part. Go ahead and buy a 6.6ft or 10ft USB-C if you’re going to smash the like button, fair warning.
4) Screen is really good, but not accurately responsive. For the best tablet on the planet lol it’s not that great at being a tablet when it comes to responsiveness. I truly feel like my iPhone 6S has more responsiveness than this tablet does which is ages behind this things capability. It frankly doesn’t make any sense. Single tapping results in double or even triple tapping, or selecting stuff while scrolling etc. It’s frustrating and clunky.
5) Amazing job on gen 2 pencil, seriously the only way it could be better is if it was double sided and didn’t have a pointless end to mimic a real pencil. Too bad the pro isn’t good enough for it, say you are taking notes as lowly college student or drafting an email to your boss and you toiled over spelling “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Well, you can’t click “supercalifragilistic(HERE)expialidocious,” you can only click, “(HERE)supercalifragilisticexpialidocious(OR HERE).” Such incredible precision with the pencil... that is squandered with petty limitations by the iPad Pro.
6) Multitasking limitations; If you are trying to type something on an app, be careful with not saving your progress or working in an app that auto saves your progress—especially in we browsers. The apps have the tendency to refresh in the background and put you back at the app home screen window as if you exited and reopened that app. This can be especially frustration when trying to type and multitask.
7) In addition to multitasking refresh issues, you can split apps between multitasking windows. It’s a reasonable limitation, but also still frustrating for the multitasker that thinks having and iPad Pro will solve all of their “on the go” problems; don’t worry, many of those problems are coming right along with you as you go lol. Safari, for example, being an app... you can have a web browser in a shared multitasking window along with imessaging for example, and then also have a safari next to a separate multitasking window with say, Notability (if you’re a note taking college student).
8) You’re paying quite a bit of money for something that you can get for much cheaper, I fear, but make no mistake Apple 100% has my vote for reliability and outlasting the competition, which is why despite all of these cons and honestly a 1 star review on the principle of headaches this thing is giving me, I will be keep it.
I don’t want to give this a 1 star, and if it were a $600 product I probably wouldn’t. The fact is that this is a $1200 tablet with too many small issues that add up to make it overall not worth it for the price. I’m rating this product based on both cost and quality and the relationship between the two. For example, for $400, this would be a 5 start product to me.
If none of this applies to you and you think that it’s the right fit for you, you’ve at least heard my gripes; you still get all the Apple apps which is bae, the gen 2 pencil is legit amazing... again, I just think the pro has small quirks that make it not worth the price.
Cheers,
PS. Don’t roast me idgaf how much you love your iPad Pro, go write a review about it.
