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For what is it excellent? What do you use it for? To me it has weirdly uncomfortable ergonomics, and it's still nothing more than a jumbo iPhone. I have long t

For what is it excellent? What do you use it for? To me it has weirdly uncomfortable ergonomics, and it's still nothing more than a jumbo iPhone. I have long tried to like iPad but I find no use for it.

drunkenazi 10y ago
I got one for work use, and it slowly turned in to my at home laptop replacement. Definitely shines at casual consumption, the only time I use it productively is when it acts as a second display (meaning my laptop is productive). Regular uses: - Streaming video, cool and quiet, unlike my laptop (especially if it is sitting on fabric, like a lap or bed) - Dual monitors on the go using duet - Quickly looking things up with someone else (instead of sharing a phone screen, or starting a computer) - Playing games in places where a laptop would be uncomfortable (heat and noise) or overkill: human resource machine, worm.is, hearthstone - Skype (including conference calls) Less commonly: - Insanely long battery life for replaying downloaded videos on flights (last flight was ~15 hours, ~8 hours watching iPad video, <10% battery used)
mixmastamyk 10y ago
Great for Movies and TV, and a lot easier to handle at moving time.
perotin 10y ago
It's great for sheet music, my main use case. The screen is large enough to display music from IMSLP without making me squint. A 9.7" iPad is a bit too small for comfortable reading at the piano. An iPhone is unusable.
vessenes 10y ago
Awesome for music. Very good for a thin-and-light exec travel item -- it has baked in data, good battery life, and I can read on it, write on it, type on it. Great for movies in bed; the audio is excellent. Nice big screen for games (I have middle aged eyes). If I could code on it, (or possibly if the apple keyboard had an escape key -- I like vim --) I would not travel with my laptop. If I could get docker images on it, I would not have a laptop.

drunkenazi 10y ago

I got one for work use, and it slowly turned in to my at home laptop replacement. Definitely shines at casual consumption, the only time I use it productively is when it acts as a second display (meaning my laptop is productive). Regular uses: - Streaming video, cool and quiet, unlike my laptop (especially if it is sitting on fabric, like a lap or bed) - Dual monitors on the go using duet - Quickly looking things up with someone else (instead of sharing a phone screen, or starting a computer) - Playing games in places where a laptop would be uncomfortable (heat and noise) or overkill: human resource machine, worm.is, hearthstone - Skype (including conference calls) Less commonly: - Insanely long battery life for replaying downloaded videos on flights (last flight was ~15 hours, ~8 hours watching iPad video, <10% battery used)

mixmastamyk 10y ago

Great for Movies and TV, and a lot easier to handle at moving time.

perotin 10y ago

It's great for sheet music, my main use case. The screen is large enough to display music from IMSLP without making me squint. A 9.7" iPad is a bit too small for comfortable reading at the piano. An iPhone is unusable.

vessenes 10y ago

Awesome for music. Very good for a thin-and-light exec travel item -- it has baked in data, good battery life, and I can read on it, write on it, type on it. Great for movies in bed; the audio is excellent. Nice big screen for games (I have middle aged eyes). If I could code on it, (or possibly if the apple keyboard had an escape key -- I like vim --) I would not travel with my laptop. If I could get docker images on it, I would not have a laptop.