This week I lost a friend who has been with me for over six years. I would like to take a moment to honor the loss and recall some of my earliest memories of my friend.

After graduating from high school, I had a summer project before heading to college in the fall. I had been saving money from my part time job to built my Dream PC. My graduation money gave me enough to finally start ordering parts and to begin assembling. The pride and joy of my new machine was the cream of the crop video card at the time, the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. This week my 9800 Pro crunched its last pixel, rendered its final image and drew its last watt.

R.I.P.

After several months of hype and speculation, the long awaited Apple tablet, the iPad, was revealed last week. Unfortunately, the iPad announcement was met with community disappointment. The week following the iPad’s announcement was full of tech journalist, bloggers and everyone else with an opinion expressing how unimpressed they were with the device, or at least how unimpressed they will be when they actually can hold one.

So since everyone, myself included, seemed to enjoy the hyped version of the Apple tablet better, I’d like to take a moment and assemble a new Apple tablet that I’m dubbing the iPad Pro. Now mind you when I say ‘pro’, I don’t mean what Apple has come to mean by ‘pro’. Apple decided to add the ‘pro’ moniker to almost all of its notebook line so as not to make the lower quality ones have low self esteem issues. When I say ‘pro’, I mean professional, like it’s loaded to the gills with stuff that most non-pro people would not need.

The iPad Pro fulfills the goals that a tablet computing device should. A perfect middle man; solving problems for situations that need a larger screen and more computing power than a smartphone, yet also require more mobility than a notebook.

Here’s what my fictitious, yet truly magical, iPad Pro contains: