The Pogue Review - Ipad pro

DAVID POGUE: This is Microsoft's Surface Pro. This is Apple's new iPad Pro. [MUSIC PLAYING] DAVID POGUE: I'm of two minds about this. Part of me says, come on Apple. You're the company that invents new product categories. You're the ones who came up with this, and this, and this. But Apple's latest breakthrough is based on something that Microsoft developed? Oh, come on. That's just the way the industry works. I mean, the Zune was based on the iPod. And Android is based on the iPhone. It's the way things go. But come on. Look at these things. They're identical. They're not identical. I mean, yes. The basic concept is similar. A touch screen when you want it. But something much closer to a full laptop when you need it. All in 1.6 pounds. And they both cost over $1,000 once you've added the keyboard and the pen. Yeah, I know. But, you know what, the iPad Pro's screen is much bigger. 14% bigger. And the whole thing is lighter and thinner. I mean, look at that. And look how smoothly the stylus draws. I mean, it's so fluid, it really keeps up with you when you draw on it fast. In fact, what's cool is you can even draw with the edge of the pen. You can even have two apps open side by side. [PIANO MUSIC] DAVID POGUE: All kinds of stuff. Maybe you should mention some of the things that the Surface has that the iPad doesn't have, like a USB jack, a kickstand, a trackpad, a memory card slot, a stylus with an eraser on it, and a magnetic place to keep your stylus. Dude. This is a review of the Apple iPad Pro. I didn't want to get into that whole Apple versus Microsoft thing. This is a beautiful, thin, new entry in the Apple ecosystem. I mean, this thing has keyboard shortcuts now. You can get real work done. But not as much work as you could get done using an actual desktop operating system. I mean, the Surface runs Windows, 4 million Windows programs. No. But 850,000 iPad apps, designed from the ground up for a touchscreen. So I think we could probably both agree on this. These things are very cool, very expensive, and that the iPad Pro is like ridiculously huge. OK. I can agree with that. Now, come on. Let's merge back. Oh man. I've got a splitting headache. Not funny dude. Not funny at all. [MUSIC PLAYING]