Tim Cook is claiming the iPad Pro will replace desktops and notebooks for "many, many people" - Polidicks

Im not bashing tablets, they have their uses. I cant understand spending 900 dollars for a tablet for "casual use", nor can i understand buying something with a mobile OS to use for "productive work"

[QUOTE=proch;49260251]That would be awful[/QUOTE] Hardly. I used to spend quite a lot of time on PCs, but in the past two years I've rarely ever turned my laptop on. I used to have a desktop computer but I didn't even use it at all, despite always using it like years ago, so I gave it to my brother. I have a Steam account worth thousands of dollars just sitting around unused because I can't really sell it to anyone else. For most people, a desktop just isn't necessary anymore. You can check Facebook from a tablet, you can browse the Internet from a tablet, you can watch movies on a tablet, you can play decent video games on a tablet, and then because it's a tablet it's very portable and iPads at least are quite decent on battery life. Even for productivity, they are becoming more useful. For instance, there are office suites like Office and Apple's stuff available on iPads. I still use my laptop to write up assignments for university, but that's because I don't have the attachable keyboard accessory. Obviously if you do something like CAD or database management or whatever for a living, a traditional computer is still the more-useful option. But for 90% of people, with that ratio constantly increasing, a tablet has everything that most people will need in a more-convenient package than a desktop computer.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;49260529]My mom actually is using an iPad pro full time now, it's replaced almost everything for her. It's a pretty cool, however overpriced device. It's large, but deceptively light. She's a real estate agent and the screen is perfect for showing stuff off to people and it works as a communications device that syncs with her phone easily enough.[/QUOTE] I'd really like to know how a real estate agent is using the MLS on an iOS device, because every single one in my tri-state area that needs a computer for their job specifically comes in for the Surface family because Safari can't run the web client.

A big thing that tablets will take a while to replace (if ever) is the tiny little applications made by a russian dude in his basement that are the only converters for that 1 file that that 1 20 year old game used for textures that you want to make a mod for and is on a barely maintained website - those are usually just for windows.

As much as I like my iPad (Still using an iPad 2), I don't see this replacing many desktop/laptops even with people who do nothing but browse the internet on their devices.

[QUOTE=Cock Boner;49262771]I'd really like to know how a real estate agent is using the MLS on an iOS device, because every single one in my tri-state area that needs a computer for their job specifically comes in for the Surface family because Safari can't run the web client.[/QUOTE] She uses google chrome and it seems to work just fine for her

[QUOTE=Antdawg;49262330]Hardly. I used to spend quite a lot of time on PCs, but in the past two years I've rarely ever turned my laptop on. I used to have a desktop computer but I didn't even use it at all, despite always using it like years ago, so I gave it to my brother. I have a Steam account worth thousands of dollars just sitting around unused because I can't really sell it to anyone else. For most people, a desktop just isn't necessary anymore. You can check Facebook from a tablet, you can browse the Internet from a tablet, you can watch movies on a tablet, you can play decent video games on a tablet, and then because it's a tablet it's very portable and iPads at least are quite decent on battery life. Even for productivity, they are becoming more useful. For instance, there are office suites like Office and Apple's stuff available on iPads. I still use my laptop to write up assignments for university, but that's because I don't have the attachable keyboard accessory. Obviously if you do something like CAD or database management or whatever for a living, a traditional computer is still the more-useful option. But for 90% of people, with that ratio constantly increasing, a tablet has everything that most people will need in a more-convenient package than a desktop computer.[/QUOTE] did the tablet make you stop using your desktop and then stop PC gaming or did you stop PC gaming which made you stop using your desktop?