[In Depth] iPad only - 3 Months In

[spiderman0616]

Funny enough, my experience with an Anker Bluetooth keyboard right now along with the new iPad 2017 has been more than awesome. I've not experienced any lag at all.

I'm sure some of the keyboard hardware has improved since I last tried it out, but I'm hooked on my ASK now. My son uses a really nice keyboard case with his iPad Air 2 that doesn't seem to give him any trouble. I wish it had existed back when I had my iPad Air 1 and I probably would have used the same one!
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I agree that, for the most part, college students should stick to a laptop while in school. With spreadsheets, presentations, and papers/reports, college students do a ton of keyboarding and also need a mouse for precision navigation.

However, after graduation in the working world, most employers provide a computer to their staff. In fact, due to proprietary software and security issues, they don't want employees using personal laptops for work. At that point, many people can move to an iPad as a primary personal computing device, since their specific work related needs are satisfied by an employer provided computer.

This is the situation I've noticed for sure. I'm not sure how college would have been for me with just an iPad, because they didn't exist yet when I was in college. (Neither did iPhones for that matter.) But I have a work-issued Macbook Air I use for work, and my iPad Pro for everything else.

One difference though--my work DOES allow us to install and use our Office 365 subscriptions on our personal iPads if we want to, and I could totally do my job from my iPad Pro if I really had to. They prefer we do everything on our company issued equipment, but don't mind us accessing all of our Office stuff (and other services) from elsewhere if needed.

 

[dumastudetto]

Like many people, I dont use specialist movie or programming software and never will. So my mainstream needs are met just fine with iPad.

But all things considered, it's working out fantastically. iOS 11 can only add to the experience and I'd like to imagine iOS 12 will continue that trend. And this is me using a 2017 iPad - non Pro. The Apple Pencil and extra features, if you have the money, would also only add to the experience. But you dont necessarily need it if you feel like you can get by like me!

If anyone has any questions about the iOS lifestyle let me know and I'll give you my opinion or advice on it. I'd recommend it.

Yours is a very impressive post. I don't usually read long posts like yours, but the idea of doing all you describe on the budget iPad amazed me - so you sucked me into reading every word.

The non-Pro device is pretty limited and missing some of neat new multitasking capabilities coming in iOS 11 is a real shame. But your post shows there is still a heck of a lot you can do on the budget iPad, and at the price it truly is astonishing value for money. Well done!

 

[Mainsail]

Yours is a very impressive post. I don't usually read long posts like yours, but the idea of doing all you describe on the budget iPad amazed me - so you sucked me into reading every word.

The non-Pro device is pretty limited and missing some of neat new multitasking capabilities coming in iOS 11 is a real shame. But your post shows there is still a heck of a lot you can do on the budget iPad, and at the price it truly is astonishing value for money. Well done!

Other than having 3 live apps at once (which seems like an unusual situation), what iOS11 multitasking capabilities will be missing on the 2017 iPad? My understanding is that it will have the same multitasking capabilities as last year's 9.7 in iPad Pro, since they both have 2 GB of RAM.

 

[maflynn]

The non-Pro device is pretty limited and missing some of neat new multitasking capabilities coming in iOS 11

The majority of people don't use the multitasking capability, I have a iPad Pro and I barely use that feature. I'd say the typical use case scenario is for a single app to run

 

[dumastudetto]

The majority of people don't use the multitasking capability, I have a iPad Pro and I barely use that feature. I'd say the typical use case scenario is for a single app to run

The majority of people haven't experienced iOS 11 yet though.