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iPad Pro hands on: Luxury technology in an impossibly-thin package
Having switched jobs I have less need for an iPad Pro compared with my old job. The Air was the logical choice, almost the same as my old M2 IPP I had to hand back. Buuut, I decided on the M4 Pro. I will keep it a long time.Anyway, very happy with that choice. The screen is a marvel, and the M4 definitely feels snappier than the M2.
I have a low end 11 inch IPP, Firelock, so shiny screen. And the pencil pro seems like magic. The pencil feels a bit different in the hand to the pencil 2. The pencil 2 had a smooth surface while the pro seems Matt. The new functions are very user friendly.
i would assume the nano texture version might be a bit like if you had those anti-glare handwriting screen covers, but less intrusive.
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How to use iPad as a Mac replacement and why you'd want to
I have never used a physical keyboard after more than a decade of using iPads. The pencil is my main source of input in addition to my fingers. The pencil gets around the screen realestate issue of the onboard keyboard. And handwriting recognition is getting pretty good.
That said, I also have windows laptop for work purposes, and an MBA at home.
Everything I need to do “on the road”, data collection commuting, couch surfing I can do in the iPad, although remote access to work sucks (Citrix emulation) and underlines to me why using macOS on an iPad would be a poor interface. Office 365 is a god send in that use case and a superior paradigm. And data collection, on site plans, renders etc the iPad is light years ahead of a laptop, or any competing tablet.
I even rarely connect an iPad to the big screen, but when I do I do use a physical keyboard, as my dell ultrasharp handles the kvm for me.But I reckon buying a portable keyboard case of any kind defeats the purpose of an iPad. It makes it thicker to carry, thicker than many laptops. What is the point? Just get a laptop if you don’t want to let the keyboard go.But yes, iPadOS needs some work to really be become the OS a big screen allows it to be.Better windowing, multitasking between apps,
file management-the sandboxed app approach is not superior to a directory based system. The security preference is noble, but user unfriendly.
multi user accounts. Especially in the workplace context. I could deploy a heap of iPads after a natural disaster to whoever is available, and have them ready for a different set of people the next week, rather than have one dedicated to each staff member. But even at home Mrs Entropy and I could share an iPad just like we do the MBA. We aren’t buying two iPads.
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New iPad Pro review roundup: impressive performance held back by iPadOS
Yeah I amusingly thought it is more likely MacOS would be absorbed into iPadOS.
seriously though, if iPadOS had
*the MacOS finder,
*better, easy to use windowing
*better, easier to use multitasking, and
*multiple user accounts
the grief would mostly go away.
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New 13-inch iPad Air will eat into iPad Pro sales
With regard to fieldwork, what would be very attractive is the nano glass of the IPP available as an option only with the higher storage options.But no work is going to pony up the $ for the TB storage options. And cost really matters if you are deploying a lot of iPads. If the non reflective glass was available as an option at lower storage/points it might make a difference in choice between the IPP and IPA, but it isn’t. So outdoor workplaces will mostly go the 128GB or 256GB Air option. -
Flagship iPad head-to-head -- M4 iPad Pro vs M2 iPad Pro compared
Yes I often have the camera obscured by my thumb
