AniMill

I’ve never been a fan of any screen protectors, but this review made a compelling reason for me to try Paperlike out. I’ve always noticed that after a short time of illustrating my hand aches. I assumed it was because the iPad didn’t like what I was drawing. But the idea that it could be caused by the too-smooth surface makes much sense. Ordered. Great review.

This further reinforces my belief that we’ll see a March Mac Pro event: updated MacBooks and Mac Studio w/ M2 Pro, Max, & Ultra, but then the big reveal of the Mac Pro w/ M2 Extreme. And perhaps an upgraded 6K Display with a much denser mini-LED backlight. Who knows, maybe even a M2 iMac Pro with mini-LED backlight…

16” seems awful large, but hell-yeah. All I’d really want is a wider aspect ratio. I’ve never been a fan of the 12.9 1.33:1 - I love my 11” 1.43:1, it feels great both portrait and landscape. Especially when watching widescreen movies. On the 11” the letterbox is tolerable, but on the 12.9 they’re such a waste of space. Perhaps they’ll go with 1.6:1 (Golden Ratio), then that’d look great and even better for content creatives.

@Davgreg I am with you. I have the 14” MBP as a desktop alternative to the Mac Studio which I couldn’t get when needed. I’ve had my 11” iPP for 3 years and still love it. The screen - contrary to poopular belief- is still gorgeous. But yes, that 12.9 does look finer in some situations.

With the M2 release, I’m looking to upgrade my 11” to the 12.9”, then sell my 14” MBP M1 for a Mac Studio M2 when it’s released. This will be a fantastic dCinema production solution.

Really all I want is proper memory allocation and reliability fixes. After Effects on Apple Mx is very wonky: first the app screams, crazy fast and powerful, but after a minute or two of compilation, it runs at a crawl claiming “Out of memory” when diagnostics there’s tons left.

Great to see big advances in function, but they’ve got to focus on functionality.