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Comment by noahbradley | Hacker News Reader

Speaking as an artist who uses the Surface Pro 3 for all of my work, an iPad Pro will be useless without the right software. And as great as Procreate might be, it's not Photoshop and will never be Photoshop. Without the ability to run full desktop apps, this would never be much more than a toy for me.

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I sympathize with this, although playing devils advocate ... if adobe has web-based photoshop (which I think they do ?) then does it matter ?

My suspicion is the Pencil will not work with it, or if it does, will not have acceptable latency.

I'd be curious who they brought in to test the iPad Pro out. I really enjoyed the fact Microsoft used Penny-Arcade for their Surface and even let them write about the experience. As a consumer, it made me feel like Microsoft cared a great deal about making sure that demographic was heard and they designed a product with that demo in mind.

Seems the holy grail is a really tough 1ms: https://youtu.be/vOvQCPLkPt4?t=52s

Hard to see from the videos, but I don't really expect anything better than 10ms. At least, we can hope to see incremental improvements in the coming years.

You may be able to run two apps side by side on the iPad now, but you wont be able to instantly alt/cmd+tab between the fully capable PC versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Chrome running 50 tabs, 500 page Word document, while rendering something, while powering 2 or 3 external monitors if needs be. It's a completely different paradigm in terms of productivity for artists and so on.

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