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While my art skills don’t extend much beyond stick figures, and my mixing career ended in the ’90s with the mixtape, it seems one could reasonably consider me a “professional,” with 20 years in my field, and a leadership role in one of the top global consulting firms. While commercials for the device show a shot or two of creating documents and slides, they spend significantly more time on drawing and DJ’ing. Ads tout the new Apple Pencil and processing horsepower that “exceeds 93% of laptops,” but also cause one to wonder who is the target market for the device.

Microsoft office on macbook pro and ipad pro#

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Apple promises something new and different with the iPad Pro, and I set out to determine if the company finally fulfilled my desire for a mobile device that gets “professional” work done. All have failed in some way, and I’ve returned to a traditional Windows or OS X machine for my computing needs. From early attempts like the Compaq iPaq with a keyboard (some of you are smiling while others are wondering about a mysterious, small Apple device and questioning my spelling abilities) and IBM z50 to a more recent attempt in 2015 to use an iPad as my primary computer. I’ve had a long-running fascination with using mobile devices for legitimate productivity.

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