in Retrospect, I should have saved myself a boatload of money, skipped the M4 iPad Pro and went with the M2 iPad Air, or a greatly discounted M2 iPad Pro. But that's just me.
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Apple's M4 iPad Pro vs. Samsung's Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra
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Hardware wise, they look phenomenal. Too bad Android is trash.
I don’t need AI to summarize the shameless video. If you want a crappy anti-glare screen and horrible keyboard, get the Samsung.
Some of you sound mean and juvenile when you talk about Apple’s competitors.
I had the last version of the Samsung. Hated it! Android is a nightmare after iOS/ipad OS.
Lol, it's actually an anti-reflection coating, and it's absolutely amazing. It's not a matte or anti-glare coating. Also, the keyboard can be changed. I find the AI summary useful for long videos when I prefer a summary to decide if it's worth watching.
Unfortunately Android is really bad on a tablet. This looks nice, and DEX is a really nice feature but the lack of proper apps really make it a stale platform. In fact Google got out of the tablet space for several years and there was talks of android for tablets being discontinued. If you wanted a good non apple tablet, I dont see why you wouldnt get a surface so at least you can run all of the windows apps.
I like Android well enough, been a Pixel user since the 2, and had Nexus devices prior. While I don’t think android tablets are Dead (there is a good conversation on Alternatives to iOS devices Forum), the overall app ecosystem is weak compared to iPad.
On Android tablets I do prefer the file system access a bit more, and their take on Multi-tasking. That said, just not enough apps (my use case) to consider. The performance is also a big deal, as I do quite a bit of batch photo and 4K video editing for both work and play.
On Android tablets I do prefer the file system access a bit more, and their take on Multi-tasking. That said, just not enough apps (my use case) to consider. The performance is also a big deal, as I do quite a bit of batch photo and 4K video editing for both work and play.
If there's one area where Apple doesn't really have any credible competition it's definitely in the tablet market.
So, basically…. You don’t need a tablet, you need a laptop. And that’s why tablets are useless. Because you don’t need them.
That's a curious design. I had an XP-Pen model that was a rebranded version of this with battery-less pen addition. It was a nice matte, similar to the iPad Nano, and similar to most Artist tablets like Wacom, who use heavily matte'd screens. It's advertised as 500 nits, but it wasn't that high, I don't think, and it suffered some large-angle brightness reduction, which some of these have.If you care about display quality, check out TCL NXTPAPER.
NXTPAPER 11
www.tcl.com
But for $229, or $240?. Also, weak cpu. The specs are 8 core. You wonder how it could be weak, but there you have it.
They advertise this for an e-reader, but I find the Kindle type screens are better for the eyes (by far), no matter how matte these get. The Samsung and Apple tablets are much more powerful, and the cost reflects that.
I'm wondering if the TCL company is still in business? Maybe they were bought out by Xp-Pen.
TCL is doing amazing in the TV industry so they will be in business for a long time.
That’s a high bar for something to be considered useful lol. There is ublock origin for firefox on android btw
Personally i love my S8+ with the Samsung notes app for when i need a tablet for tablet things. The S pen is nicer to write with than Apple pencil imo, i also appreciate the aspect ratio for watching videos, and it feels less cumbersome than the 13” ipad pro
even the M1 air, it was a great deal when they were clearing those out, and plenty fast enough for iPadOS
That's why they offer smaller 12,4" S10+ variant. Or even smaller 11" S9 variant.
I think it's pretty disengenuous to equate the anti-glare which is standard on S10, with the optional, extra cost option that's only available on models with 1TB or more memory for the iPad.
The cheapest 13 iPad I could buy with anti-glare is €2,588 (including Pencil), whereas I could get a S10 Ultra with 1TB with S-Pen for €1,799, or I could even go the whole hog and go for one with 256GB for €1,399 and throw in a 1TB Micro SD card for about €100.
I'm not in the market for either as I prefer small tablets, but the difference is stark.
Edited to add: The S10 Ultra currently comes with a free keyboard, so including that it's close to half the price of the iPad/Pencil/keyboard combo.
The cheapest 13 iPad I could buy with anti-glare is €2,588 (including Pencil), whereas I could get a S10 Ultra with 1TB with S-Pen for €1,799, or I could even go the whole hog and go for one with 256GB for €1,399 and throw in a 1TB Micro SD card for about €100.
I'm not in the market for either as I prefer small tablets, but the difference is stark.
Edited to add: The S10 Ultra currently comes with a free keyboard, so including that it's close to half the price of the iPad/Pencil/keyboard combo.
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In the notebookcheck review they mentioned no temporal dithering on iPad Pro M4. Below excerpt from the review:
"Temporal dithering however is not an issue, we could not detect any flickering on a 240 fps slow motion video of the subpixels and different grey shades on the screen."
Is this due to manufacturing difference or individual sensitivity?
In Samsung's image app, you can sketch an object onto a photo and AI will create a more realistic version of what you sketched, adding it in to your picture
The auto-tune for people thinking they're artists. 🤖
On paper, the iPad specs blow the Galaxy out of the water.
But really...
Who comes even close to using all of the iPad specs...?
But really...
Who comes even close to using all of the iPad specs...?
Windows ARM is the future. There are still compatibility issues, but what are they going to do, stick with x86 forever? Intel is about to go bankrupt. AMD can't fully take their place.
I have the 11" M4, its ok its the software that lets it down. Apple can't seem to find that sweet spot in between iOS and macOS, still feels like a big iPhone.