Can't say that I've seen a difference - what are you expecting? 13.5 Pro on 26.1, working with Samsung T7 SSDs here.
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Can't say that I've seen a difference - what are you expecting? 13.5 Pro on 26.1, working with Samsung T7 SSDs here.
Same here. M1 iPP 11 on 26.2 RC, working fine with my Samsung T7 SSD.
This is the hub for my iPad desktop setup. I have the T7 1TB and a Sandisk USB 3.0 500GB attached to it, and they both transfer files with my iPad with no problems. Redundant backups.😉
Anker USB C Hub (7-in-1), with 4K HDMI, 85W Power Delivery, USB-C and 2 USB-A 5Gbps Data Ports, microSD and SD Card Reader, for MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, XPS, and More
Model Number A8346 Compatible Devices Include MacBook Pro (2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 ) MacBook Air (2018 / 2019) Pixelbook (2017) Incompatible Devices: Switch, USB SuperDrive, Original XPS 13 stock adapter / phone and tablet stock adapters. Supported Systems Windows 10 8 7 Vista XP Mac OS ...
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SAMSUNG T7 Portable SSD, 1TB External Solid State Drive, Speeds Up to 1,050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Reliable Storage for Gaming, Students, Professionals, MU-PC1T0T/AM, Gray
The Samsung Portable SSD T7 is the next standard in external storage. With transfer rates up to 9.5x faster than traditional external hard drives and read/ write speeds up to 1050 MB/s, you can move massive files around with unparalleled ease and fluidity. Its sleek, shock-resistant design is unc...
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SanDisk 512GB Ultra USB 3.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ48-512G-G46, Black
Step up to high-speed USB 3 0 and transfer your videos photos and files up to ten times faster than standard USB 2 0 drives SanDisk Ultra USB 3 0 Flash Drive takes the wait out of moving sharing or backing up big filesnow you can transfer a full-length movie from your laptop to your flash drive i...
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This is the hub for my iPad desktop setup. I have the T7 1TB and a Sandisk USB 3.0 500GB attached to it, and they both transfer files with my iPad with no problems. Redundant backups.😉
Anker USB C Hub (7-in-1), with 4K HDMI, 85W Power Delivery, USB-C and 2 USB-A 5Gbps Data Ports, microSD and SD Card Reader, for MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, XPS, and More
Model Number A8346 Compatible Devices Include MacBook Pro (2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 ) MacBook Air (2018 / 2019) Pixelbook (2017) Incompatible Devices: Switch, USB SuperDrive, Original XPS 13 stock adapter / phone and tablet stock adapters. Supported Systems Windows 10 8 7 Vista XP Mac OS ...www.amazon.com
SAMSUNG T7 Portable SSD, 1TB External Solid State Drive, Speeds Up to 1,050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Reliable Storage for Gaming, Students, Professionals, MU-PC1T0T/AM, Gray
The Samsung Portable SSD T7 is the next standard in external storage. With transfer rates up to 9.5x faster than traditional external hard drives and read/ write speeds up to 1050 MB/s, you can move massive files around with unparalleled ease and fluidity. Its sleek, shock-resistant design is unc...www.amazon.com
SanDisk 512GB Ultra USB 3.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ48-512G-G46, Black
Step up to high-speed USB 3 0 and transfer your videos photos and files up to ten times faster than standard USB 2 0 drives SanDisk Ultra USB 3 0 Flash Drive takes the wait out of moving sharing or backing up big filesnow you can transfer a full-length movie from your laptop to your flash drive i...www.amazon.com
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I use the exact same hub & T7 - they work great!
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Is it drag and drop like on Android? Can easily create and move folders like on a Mac?
Well, good people. I decided to move on from my 4K portable monitor… was planning on transitioning to an OLED monitor, had my eye on that ViewSonic OLED 4K 15” monitor. And then I thought about trying out that dual ZenScreen OLED monitor. But I prefer to have a monitor to sit above the iPad.
But I couldn’t get past the thought of using a 5k monitor and how that would be nice viewing experience for the iPad, so looked around the web to see what I can find. And as much as I wouldn’t mind having the Apple Studio Display, didn’t care to spend that much money on it. So, during the holiday sales… I picked up a Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K monitor.
Still adjusting to the portable aspect of it… cause I used to move my previous monitor back and forth from my desk to the den area, need to find a case to travel with it as well. Comes with a not-so-fun (huge) charging brick… but I like the fact it charges the iPad when hooked up to it.
But I couldn’t get past the thought of using a 5k monitor and how that would be nice viewing experience for the iPad, so looked around the web to see what I can find. And as much as I wouldn’t mind having the Apple Studio Display, didn’t care to spend that much money on it. So, during the holiday sales… I picked up a Samsung ViewFinity S9 5K monitor.
Still adjusting to the portable aspect of it… cause I used to move my previous monitor back and forth from my desk to the den area, need to find a case to travel with it as well. Comes with a not-so-fun (huge) charging brick… but I like the fact it charges the iPad when hooked up to it.
Wow thanks. The Pro can actually reformat drives I did not know this and this is something that I wish I could do on my Android tablets.
Yeah, I would definitely use the web version of Word if possible, as it’s definitely a bit better than the native version, though, sadly, only slightly so. But it doesn’t sound like you’re having problems with the toolset of Word on iPadOS, just the bugs with the app, and for that, the web app is probably a great solution in most cases. 👍🏻
I’m late to the party, and others have already made some great points about this here, but I do want to share a couple of thoughts. 👍🏻
One, the differences between iOS and iPadOS extend far beyond merely “slapping a new label on”. iPadOS is demonstrably different from iOS in many ways. For example, there are many apps that are built for iPadOS but not iOS as you even pointed out. That’s not merely a “screen size” difference, that’s a difference between the simpler iOS and more capable iPadOS and the kinds of apps that can actually be practical to use on their respective devices, or that can even work at all in the first place on them. And there are also many features (beyond mere screen scaling), that iPadOS provides that iOS does not. Like virtual memory swap, which is absent on iPhones, but present on many iPads running iPadOS. Extended Display support is another major difference. And iPadOS has default and better mouse and keyboard support. Can you hook up a mouse and keyboard to an iPhone? Technically, but it’s not nearly as good, and must be done using a buried accessibility feature. And there aren’t any system keyboard shortcuts like on iPadOS either.
There are many many examples like this I could list, where iPadOS is demonstrably different from iOS, and it goes beyond screen size…
Two, Basically all of Apple’s OSes are built on a shared framework, and are just optimized for their respective devices/platforms. But that does not mean that they’re the same device, or have the same limits in terms of software. I could literally just as easily say the iPad is a “slightly smaller MacBook” as say the “iPad is just a big iPhone”, and I would actually be more accurate with the former, as the iPad is far more aligned in functionality with the MacBook than the iPhone… And, both iOS and iPadOS are essentially a modernized version of macOS that’s gotten rid of some of the legacy frameworks and code that macOS still has (but is also beginning to transition away from). You could also claim “the iPhone’s just a big Apple Watch”, or “the Apple TV is just a big iPhone you plug into a TV”, since the software under the hood is technically similar. But that fails to consider the very obvious and big difference in use-case, and or experience these platforms offer. Do they share similar software under the hood? Of course, basically all Apple devices share very similar software at their core. But that doesn’t make x device a “bigger” version of y device, or y device a “smaller” version of x device. They are very different things when actually using them, which is why it’s basically disingenuous to claim the iPad is “just a big iPhone”.