It's my go to ipad now. I got rid of the 12.9 as it's more portable. OLED coming next year will be good.
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Hope you enjoy it! The 11" Pro is a portable beast... doesn't break a sweat for 99% of tasks, and great battery life. However, do invest in a case. The thing is a sheet of glass, practically. Even a small nudge to a wall will reward you with permanent scuffs. And holding it with a hand does get tiring, so make sure it's one with a stand.
I saw those refurbed iPads on their site. Were very tempting...I think if they let me do Apple payment plans on I would have one right now. Enjoy your new device.
Congrats! I completely agree, 12.9 is a bit too big for me, but wife loves it for quick sketches.
I have a Composite Book case for the iPP 4th gen. Cannot remember the manufacturer of the case, but it looks similar to this one without the "Designed by Finite..." advertisement (lots of complements and great edge protection):
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I can confirm nothing other than an 11” can fit. Took my 11” Pro M2 on my work travel and it was literally perfect.
Yep, the bastards don't give you much room to work with!
I can confirm nothing other than an 11” can fit. Took my 11” Pro M2 on my work travel and it was literally perfect.
I can confirm nothing other than an 11” can fit. Took my 11” Pro M2 on my work travel and it was literally perfect.
Looks perfect!
OLED, combined with the front facing camera being in the correct spot, would be a worthwhile upgrade for sure. I'd upgrade from my M1 11" straight away.
It’s all a guess honestly. All we can do is look at history: 32-bit devices had good battery life and unusable performance when updated. More modern 64-bit iPads have very poor battery life, good performance. 10.5-inch iPad Pro users (A10X) report great performance, poor battery life on iPadOS 16. I don’t know how the M2 will fare, nobody knows. Going by history, I have to assume that performance should be quite great, and there’s a massive question mark in terms of battery life.
So, as far as performance goes, you should be okay for many iOS versions. Nobody knows what support will look like with it, too. Apple still supports the 1st-gen iPad Pro today, on iPadOS 16, 7 iOS versions in. The last 32-bit device saw 5 iOS versions. Today, your question is very difficult to predict with any certainty at all. If I were to extrapolate today’s results, I’d have to say that performance will be great, battery life won’t be. But honestly, nobody knows.
Whatever the answer is I wouldn't worry about it. I got my 11" IPP at launch in 2018 and still love mine and use it constantly.
That's not what the person you replied to said 😛
They said Windows and MacOS manage application windows better than iPadOS.
Plenty of corporations use Macs, they can install Office just fine lol. Most corps use Windows due to the cost.
Out of all the Apple Devices I have (not counting MacBook) - I would expect the 11 to last the longest.
I just discovered this magical experience myself. I use a Citrix login as a backup when I really can’t complete a task in MS Office on my iPad Pro. Being able to do a couple of arcane excel macros, or tidy up a PowerPoint deck via the Citrix ios app is awesome. Now that we can drive an external monitor, running Windows through Citrix on the external is perfect.
I mean, I avoid Windows at all costs, but this combination means I lose no functionality with the iPad as my primary machine.