30-10-2018 14:03 - edited 01-11-2018 09:59
30-10-2018 14:03 - edited 01-11-2018 09:59
On Tuesday 30 October, Apple held a special event in which they announced new Macbook's & Mac Mini's. They also unveiled two brand new iPad's which are their best ones yet, and which mark the biggest change to iPad since, well, iPad.
The new iPad Pro's will be available to pre-order on O2 from this Friday, 2 November, on the links below.
Original Post & live updates below
Hey guys,
Exciting stuff could be happening soon. Right now Apple are hosting another special event. Who knows what will happen, but if there's anything juicy, we'll update this thread as and when we can.
Stay tuned, and watch the live stream here right now > https://www.apple.com/apple-events/
Live Updates
Update 31 October: We know everyone is excited about the new iPad Pro's - and we are too. They will be heading to O2 and we will share more info on availability soon. Watch this space.
11-11-2018 10:43 - edited 11-11-2018 10:44
@AppleFan18 I’m the opposite
on 11-11-2018 10:47
on 11-11-2018 10:50
on 11-11-2018 10:55
@AppleFan18 And don’t forget you have the 4G version... data is always there, even when you roam specially with 4Gb and higher plans on mobile you can even do USA with o2 sharing your iPhone connection.
The prices for higher capacity are crazy, and if you consider cloud computing and storage is the future... and it’s compatible with family plan, you can shar part of your storage with family.
For me there’s no turning back
on 11-11-2018 11:39
on 11-11-2018 11:39
I’m split in the middle, always go for the midrange model, heavy cloud storage user, but also appreciate the need for some local storage, I hit the 256 model, it’s the same as my MacBook and seems to be my sweet spot.
How Oe long until they enable storage via that USB-C port?
on 11-11-2018 11:43
@Theboynorm Lots of pressure regarding storage access via USB-C this year. Based on how Apple reacts to this, I believe they will leave it for now and allow on iOS 13 unless sales are really affected they will do something... or 3rd party will go crazy and do something that’s really usable because so far the options are really bad. The moment they enable usb storage access they will sell less 1tb or 512gb because people will do math and external will be cheaper
on 11-11-2018 11:48
on 11-11-2018 11:53
@Theboynorm do you remember optical drives?
Everyone “how dare they to remove it”
Me “Yay, my OCD it’s fixed, no more DVD’s or BluRay to store”
Moving from HDD to SSD and the price increase
Everyone “Apple is so expensive. We can’t chose, how dare they”
Me “Yay, no more vibration and less loading times”
the problem with Apple is they don’t explain why they do things, and if the end user isn’t tech minded I understand that can be confusing
on 11-11-2018 12:40
on 11-11-2018 12:40
I hear you with those statements, you just really need to think about how you use your device, what is important to the way you work and how to make the best use of the tech you have.
its funny how the small things still surprise people, the comments I get about the iPad & pencil, OMG I didn’t know you could do that... it’s just Apple notes and a pencil!!
still as you said fingers crossed for the later part of this week
on 11-11-2018 18:09
on 11-11-2018 18:09
I dont get these complaints about the iPad and iOS being restrictive. I’m head of English and GCSE teacher for a large nationally recognised training provider and I use my iPad Pro all the time for work.
My learners produce their work as RTFs. All the other tutors have to download the work to their PC, print it out, mark it, scan it back, upload it back up to the learning platform.
I open it on my ipad, export it to word, mark it with the pencil, and export it back again.
So much easier, all using iCloud. I make my presentations on iPad, I do everything using it.
I have a work laptop provided by the company but I use my own iPad Pro. I’m looking forward to actually doing my presentations with the latest one rather than having to send it back to a work PC.
There are limitations (for example, I’ve just had to send some work emails and I don’t have access to my work contact groups) but that is down to poor implementation by Microsoft in their apps rather than iOS.