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Dec 15, 2015 1:26 PM in response to eliseannsby my ginger,Ipad Pro is tablet and Macbook is a computer. The tablet is touch screen and the computer has a keyboard. Tables can use SSD cards. Macbook's can use external drives and with reader use SSD cards. Tablets have ISO operating systems Mac's Have Mac OS operating systems. You can go to apple on line and compare the features that come with both of them. The newest in a notebook would be the Macbook Pro.
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Dec 20, 2015 12:03 PM in response to my gingerby a brody,Tablets can't use SSD cards, but they can use SD cards. The SD cards though can't themselves be used for anything but photo storage, and mini-SD card for managing your cell carrier. External WiFi based hard drives do exist for the iPad, but they don't really manage files the same way as they do on a Mac. There are file managers for these drives, but they are not as easy to manage as on Mac OS X. And Apple's tablets only run iOS, and can't be downgraded once upgraded.
MacBooks can run Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. If touch is a must, there is Trolltouch available for the MacBook.
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Dec 25, 2015 5:54 PM in response to a brodyby John K.,Being an Apple fanboy, as many of the users here are, I would love to get an iPad Pro. However, the iPad just doesn't fit into my workflow. As a full time college professor, I need a good email machine, a full size keyboard, and a real file system.
The latter is where I run into problems. The iPad is great, but there are simply some things I can't do on the iPad- my university's web apps don't work on iOS, it takes about 10 extra steps to edit audio files to embed them directly into my Keynote presentations in iOS as it does on a real Mac, and there are mission critical apps (Finale, SmartMusic) that simply aren't available on iOS. Also, my school's IT department simply can't get the iPad to interface with the network successfully to print to different printers on the network. On the Mac, it's no problem.
So I guess it's up to you. Honestly, if I didn't have to do certain things, I could probably get away with an iPad Pro. But the MacBook is just as portable and in some ways, much more powerful.