iPad Pro owners thread (1 Viewer)

[DaveF]

Gotcha. I previously thought you were selling and going without the old device for a month or two hoping for rumored device to be launched.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Mini-LED iPad Pro soon – yet more supply-chain evidence - 9to5Mac

We've been hearing reports of a mini-LED iPad Pro for well over a year now, with almost all of them specifically pointing to the display ...

9to5mac.com

 

[Sam Posten]

I'm ready. ARM iMac for home, iPad Pro 5g for the road.

 

[Carlo_M]

By May, Apple. May. Earlier is better. Do not let my funds go back to central.

 

[DaveF]

Love my iPad Air (2020). Very curious what the new iPad Pro brings.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

I am hoping, but not expecting the new iPad Pro about to be announced will support WiFi 6E

What Wi-Fi 6E means for Apple’s new Macs and the iPhone 15

New frequency spectrum means faster speed and better reliability.

www.macworld.com

I held off buying the latest WiFi 6 mesh routers knowing that 6E was just around the corner.

 

[Ted Todorov]

I am hoping, but not expecting the new iPad Pro about to be announced will support WiFi 6E

What Wi-Fi 6E means for Apple’s new Macs and the iPhone 15

New frequency spectrum means faster speed and better reliability.

www.macworld.com

I held off buying the latest WiFi 6 mesh routers knowing that 6E was just around the corner.

I am hoping Apple's AirPort's return supporting WiFi 6E

 

[Sam Posten]

12.9-Inch iPad Pro With Mini-LED Display Said to Launch as Soon as Late March

Taiwanese touch panel maker GIS plans to expand its backend module capacity for new products at its factory in Chengdu, China, according to industry...

www.macrumors.com

 

[Carlo_M]

If no other Mac is imminent, that might be where my work funds go (along with a keyboard, case and Apple pencil). But I'd really love for literally any M class mac to be released, whether it's an iMac, 14 or 16" MBP, whatever. But I have little to no hope for that.

 

[Sam Posten]

Maybe they will press release drop it in the time before the show =p

 

[Carlo_M]

Maybe they will press release drop it in the time before the show =p

I mean, never say never. Especially recently Apple has been press-release-dropping more than they have in the past. But I feel like M-class is still the new shiny, so I'm thinking Cook and Co. will want to be big-screening this in front of (virtual) people.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Rumor: iPad Pros to ship in April. Speculation is that the March event will now be held in April

New Airpods won't ship until Q3

Apple's rumored March event reportedly will take place in April

Apple's next product launch will take place in April, not March, a soon-to-be-eyebrowless Jon Prosser claimed Wednesday. Prodigious leaker Prosser had

www.cultofmac.com

 

[Thomas Newton]

Love my iPad Air (2020). Very curious what the new iPad Pro brings.

One rumor site said it would have a new A-series chip that was about as fast as the M1, plus, perhaps, Thunderbolt 3 support on the USB-C port.

But who knows?

 

[Ted Todorov]

So I managed to crack a large portion of the screen of my 11” iPad Pro. I accidentally knocked it of the table, it managed to separate itself from its keyboard case and landed face down… It is still under warranty (I bought it last May), but since it is not under Apple Care+ it does me absolutely no good- fixing the screen costs $500 whether it is under under warranty or not…. Here is the relevant info: https://support.apple.com/ipad/repair/service

Basically it makes no sense for me to fix it at that cost: might as well buy a new one when it comes out next month…. Thoughts?

I would say that the case of my previous 10.5” iPad Pro is much more reliable - as the magnetic attachment to the case doesn’t exist, it is much more firmly attached to it, and with an identical fall, nothing would have happene. (In effect it is the identical case that came with the original 2010 iPad- those were the best cases for protecting the iPad screen, and models that used identical ones, be they third party or Apple native were the most reliable, the safest.)

 

[Sam Posten]

Get a genius appointment and see what they say. Don’t automatically assume it’s $500 or nothing

 

[Ted Todorov]

I did for today. But hard to see how it would be otherwise.

 

[Nelson Au]

Sorry to hear about your iPad Pro dropping Ted. I hope your Genius visit turns out well.

 

[Ted Todorov]

This is why I love Apple so much, and have loved it for years: super nice person from the Genius bar: "yes, I know you don't have AppleCare+ but you can *still* sign up for it. Bonus: yes, you can pay the full $129 for Apple Care, BUT you can just sign up for $5.99 a month, and cancel it at any point in the future."
Meaning, if I love so much the new, soon to be released iPad Pro, I could gift or sell this one and cancel AppleCare... So, basically I'll just need to pay $49 to fix the screen.
I have another Genius appointment for early next week --it does take a day or two for AppleCare to be officially active, my iPad can get "fixed" then -- guessing I'll just replace it for a refurbished one.

So for future reference: only get the monthly version of AppleCare and you can wait all the way until a day before the end of your warranty to do it.

 

[DaveF]

Is this a new policy? In the past, I thought you only had 3 months after purchase to sign up for AppleCare. And there wasn’t a monthly payment option. It was a $129 flat fee.

When I had a broken iPhone and iPad a couple years ago, this was not an option. They only offered out-of-warranty replacement. Which for the iPhone made sense at $299. But for the iPad, the new version was coming out a month later, so I waited to buy a new iPad instead of paying the same price for OOW replacement of the old one.

 

[Ted Todorov]

Is this a new policy? In the past, I thought you only had 3 months after purchase to sign up for AppleCare. And there wasn’t a monthly payment option. It was a $129 flat fee.

When I had a broken iPhone and iPad a couple years ago, this was not an option. They only offered out-of-warranty replacement. Which for the iPhone made sense at $299. But for the iPad, the new version was coming out a month later, so I waited to buy a new iPad instead of paying the same price for OOW replacement of the old one.

Yes, it clearly is a new(ish) policy: both the monthly AppleCare+ payment and the longer period to start AppleCare.