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tht said:

macplusplus said:

AppleInsider said:

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Day 5

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As I started to restore my Mac and get it back up to snuff, I reflected on what was working and not working with the iPad. Editing video was surprisingly doable and I actually quite enjoyed using LumaFusion and will use that again.

At the same time, I felt while things weren't difficult and doable, they took a bit more time than they did on my Mac. Little things like the space inserted in pasting text. I did try using a mouse with the iPad and iOS 13 but it still wasn't as smooth as experience as I had hoped.

I also felt like I kept having to jump in and out of apps more than simply being in them all at once like on my Mac.

Still, using my iPad Pro as a daily driver was refreshing. It was a different way of looking at things and the platform shows a lot of promise. For full video editing, I'm not 100-percent ready to give up my Mac but with the latest hardware and iOS 13, Apple is getting remarkably close to getting there. Perhaps next year will finally bridge the gap.

Why didn’t you use the Pencil to quickly select and remove  those extra spaces? Since this is professional work a Pencil is justified. Besides, you can also replace all those “ )” in Pages, then paste the whole text again in your editor.

You don’t have to jump in and out of apps, just use the four-finger swipe to navigate between open iPad apps. On the Mac you are still in and out of apps since you must activate a window by clicking. Or you assign open applications to different desktops to swipe between them. As such, both macOS and iOS are similar in switching open apps.

You can also offload some of your video work to your iPad Pro since that beast doesn’t have temperature issues like computers with fans. Running your MBP mostly in max temperature will shorten its life, like any laptop.

These are many of the reasons I say that the best way to use an iPad is flat on table, when at a table, or flat on your lap. By configuring an iPad like a laptop, it makes it harder to use the biggest advantages of using a tablet: multi-touch gestures and Pencil input. The software keyboard takes practice to be proficient at, and Apple needs to improve it too by at least adding meta and arrow keys, but I think people can enter text with the software keyboard well, while being able to manipulate the iPad with multi-touch and Pencil really well who’ll flat.

When propped vertical while using a hardware keyboard, multi-touch and Pencil input is going to be cumbersome. If I was using a hardware keyboard, I’d just lay the iPad flat just behind the keyboard.

This is exactly how I use it without external keyboard and I do a lot of text editing/formatting, ePub export etc in Pages. A low angle may be better and I bought a Targus VersaVu case that folds also in low angle. Another excellent case with low angle is Logitech AnyAngle.

If only Apple Marketing could have some inspiration instead of presenting the iPad like a Surface clone !

crowley said:

macplusplus said:

qwwera said:

All the new text editing tools in iPad OS are welcome, but it’s still awful. I haven’t tried a mouse yet, but so glad they’re loosening up and allowing it.

The Pencil is better than a mouse, even on the Mac.

How have you used a Pencil on your Mac?    

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/07/review-wacoms-intuos-pro-small-is-a-graphics-tablet-for-artists-on-the-move

And with iOS 13 and macOS Catalina we’ll be able to use the iPad as a second display to the Mac and also customize Apple Pencil options in the Sidecar Preference pane on the Mac.

seanismorris said:

Spending $1000 and only getting 128GB (in this day & age) is crazy.  

You don’t only get 128 GB with this $1000, you get 128 GB PLUS a second CPU assigned to the fastest, the most durable and encrypted use of that 128 GB. Such things are not sold on Amazon.

Were you collecting plates from one supplier, read/write head from another supplier, motor from the well known auto maker, case and controller from China when assembling the world’s fastest and cheapest spinning HARD DISK?!!

/LOL 

qwwera said:

All the new text editing tools in iPad OS are welcome, but it’s still awful. I haven’t tried a mouse yet, but so glad they’re loosening up and allowing it.

The Pencil is better than a mouse, even on the Mac.

Enable iCloud Music Library and iCloud Photo Library so that music and photos get stored on iCloud and get purged from your Mac when more space is needed. In Photos/Preferences/iCloud preference pane disable "Download originals to this Mac" and enable "Optimize Mac storage". Manage download options in iTunes/Preferences/Downloads pane and also decide whether you need your music and movie files copied from external media to your iTunes Library, only files copied to iTunes Library are uploaded to iCloud. If you frequently use your external media for music and movie playback unchecking "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" in Prefences/Advanced pane may help.

Gaming platforms like Steam and Origin allow to store game libraries on external media, you don't need to store all games on your Mac (Preferences and save files are generally stored on the Mac though).

Life in 128 GB is not painful. We pay a shitload of money to Telco operators for their crappy LTE, spending a few bucks for extra 200 GB iCloud space is nothing compared to LTE’s cost.