iPad vs Laptop
My wife and three kids have MacBook Air or Pros and I have an 12.9" iPad Pro. My two college students tell me they'd go iPad Pro if they could do it over again so they could easily take notes in class. My son has a Mac mini in his dorm room and uses it more than his MacBook.
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Interesting development with my iPad as I added the keyboard case. They say it drains about 3% an hour. My usage says it drains closer to 8% an hour.
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Photoshop finally coming (as we learned last year), but it looks like its missing some features. For me, I am not sure that will matter, but it is interesting.
www.bloomberg.com
Photoshop for iPad Nearing Launch With Some Key Features Missing
Early testers have been disappointed by the ‘rudimentary’ state of the iPad version of Adobe’s photo app.
www.bloomberg.com
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Question for iPad users. Anybody else suffer from the terrible unresponsive aspect when charging? Its a known issue, for most models and Apple has acknowledged the problem, this has been an issue going back to 10.5 iPad Pro.
I use an iPad Pro (12.9" version) and it effectively does everything that a laptop does. You can have multiple screens and apps open at the same time. You can use a pencil to draw on screen and take notes. You can use an external keyboard and bluetooth mouse. You can plug in external storage devices to increase your file capacity. You have internet access, email, calendar, to do list, Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Word, edit photos with Photoshop, Affinity and Lightroom.
It is a beast.
It is a beast.
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So my 10.5 iPad Pro died on me. Well technically it didn’t die, it just had a dark bar running through the middle of it. Getting it fixed was more expensive than a new one, so for the holidays, GG got me a new iPad Pro with 2nd gen pencil and keyboard case that I wanted.
Getting it all set up now, but so far so good.
Getting it all set up now, but so far so good.
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Definitely Is. While I wish I didn’t have to replace my previous in less than 3 years, the new device seems solid.
My mom's macbook has died. She uses her laptop for browsing, emails, and organizing family photos and that's about it. She has embraced her iphone over the last year and has gotten fairly confident using it. To keep things simple as possible, we are going to get her either an iPad Pro with the keyboard or a laptop. For someone like her, who is not the most technically savvy, would the iPad Pro present any issues for her using in place of a laptop?
Just upgraded to the new MacBook Pro 13 inch, my old one was 2013 model. Still use the Mac mini for a desktop at the house.
I've been carrying both an iPad and laptop for the last several years and my laptop use has dropped enough that I only used it in my hotel room rather than tether it to my iPad. Most of this year I've only carried my iPad and I can do pretty much everything I need so I'm going to upgrade it to a Pro pretty soon and just run with it. With O365 and the ability to remote into my work desktop anywhere I have cell service I'm pretty much golden especially since I got my bluetooth credit card deal that takes chip cards, swipes, apple/android pay. It saves a bunch on weight and since my home PC turned into a sim it'll be nice to have my laptop set up in my office if I need it.
I don’t see why it would. iPad OS is close enough to her iPhone OS that it should be pretty seamless for her to switch to an iPad. Especially since she’s coming from a MacBook.
Thanks. That's my thought as well. Plus, I'm assuming the ipad will be lighter and easier to transport.
Yeah. Probably. The biggest issue is always going to be applications. If she’s using the native photos app for pictures it should be fine, if she’s using photoshop or some special application it may be a learning curve.
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I have gone almost exclusively to the iPad for image editing.
Still using the computer for video editing, due to a number of factors, including FCPX not being available on iPads. What's interesting is how many great apps there are for images, that handle work flow really well.
Still using the computer for video editing, due to a number of factors, including FCPX not being available on iPads. What's interesting is how many great apps there are for images, that handle work flow really well.
I think this is where the iPad excels - I've done a lot of presentation work on mine as well. I just find it more pleasant to work with than a "traditional" computer. Where it falls down for me, big time, is anything having to do with text, which is where I spend most of my day. But Apple's main focus has always been creatives, so I'm not surprised. Not necessarily typing or writing - the keyboards I have are find for that, but manipulating/copy/pasting text.
It'd be a killer tool for research if that was better.
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You are absolutely right. It is not fun to do simple text tasks. I also find it funny that you swipe up for the home screen from an app, but doing so with the new pencil is nearly impossible.
I mostly use an iPad at home and a desktop at work.
While we're on the subject of the pencil, I also wish that Preview switched to/from markup mode when you detatch and re-attach the pencil on the iPad Pro. It's a small thing, and I understand not all models have the magnetic pencil attachment, but would be a nice quality of life thing.
But still, I think this does a lot of stuff better than my surface ever did, especially with reading. But at the same time it kind of makes me wish for a better tablet experience on the Surface.
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That goes back to the entire Apple vs Android thing. All devices have to perform identically on one of them, regardless if they have the same features.
I still cannot figure out why I cant swipe up with my pencil to go home. So I am forced to lean in and do so to switch apps. It is ******* maddening.
I haven’t paid much attention to the pencil, but does it have a copy/paste tap sequence?