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Ask HN: Anybody here uses an iPad Pro as a personal device?
Fellow hackers,
I am thinking of buying an used ipad pro to replace my scattered handwritten notes and hopes of using them as a portable device that I can use for meetings and discussions where I dont need to actively code.
Anybody here use IPad Pro (wih Apple Pencil) in any good usecases?
- philiphodgen 10y agoI have tried -- really tried -- to replace a laptop with an iPad Pro. The big one, with a keyboard and pencil. Failure. I am one of three people I have seen this happen to. A MBP is vastly more capable. When I see iPad sales continue to slide, I don't wonder why. It is not all that useful. I'm a tax lawyer so my needs are modest. I'm no power user. But spreadsheets, omnigraffle, Scrivener, etc are all better on a Mac. Multiple windows are a necessity. The people I have seen who evangelize the iPad Pro as a primary device (macstories.net, brooksreview.net) seem to put far more effort into bending their lives to the tool. I'd rather get shit done.
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- informatimago 10y agoThe good use cases are: - drawing (painting), - manual (hand-written) note taking and sketching. - I like Omnigraffle on it, too, and other vectorial drawing. - musical composition both partition editing (with the pencil), and synthesizer/sequencers programming. Also, there's a Logic Pro iOS annex but I've not tried it yet. - and of course, classical tablet media consumption and social, with the added value of multi-tasking. However, I feel that currently applications don't exploit fully the ergonomic potential of tablets and of the pencil. But as a programmer, you should be able to write applications matching your needs and expectations, and notably, integrating an application with user interface parts on both the tablet and the desktop.