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Being able to take notes with a pen is huge. iPads are a bit cheaper than Macbooks, and they're easy to use if you're familiar with a smartphone. If you won't n
by dividedbyzero 5y ago
Being able to take notes with a pen is huge. iPads are a bit cheaper than Macbooks, and they're easy to use if you're familiar with a smartphone. If you won't need any specialized software not available for iOS, I'd say iPads should be plenty great for studying. I've used mine a lot back then, and that was way before the Pencil (using a third-party stylus) and it worked really well.
- throwaway894345 5y agoI own an iPad with the Apple Pencil precisely because I was excited to take notes with it, but the handwriting recognition is awful, and without handwriting recognition there isn’t much point in using the iPad versus paper notebooks for notes. Anyway, if as much as I enjoy handwriting, taking notes via keyboard is much better: you can type a lot faster than you can write and you get all of the benefits of handwriting recognition (searchability, editability, etc). And if you’re using an iPad, your keyboard experience is significantly poorer than with a laptop. The only compelling advantage for a stylus is diagrams IMO. As for “learning curve”, I have a hard time believing that children will have a significantly harder time with macOS versus iOS. Kids seem pretty smart when it comes to technology.