As a back story....When I got my first 12.9”, it felt massive. I laughed at how big it was when I opened the box for the first time on release day. My husband had picked it up from Apple for me and brought it to me at work, so I didn’t see it before I bought it. So while it seemed so big, it was also fantastically big. I loved the new large screen size that I could hold in my hands. I moved to a bigger handbag so I could put it in there for transportation. I now have the 3rd gen 12.9” and it’s smaller in size with the same size screen, but you know all this.
Anyway, I quickly got used to the larger screen and it made my smaller iPad (an Air 2 at the time) feel like a mini.
I found that by still using a smaller iPad as well that the 12.9 felt big when I’d pick it up again, but when I used the 12.9 constantly, without switching back to a smaller iPad, that it began to feel like a normal iPad size. I mean, I know it’s still big, but it felt like the size that an iPad should be. It took me a few weeks for it to feel like my normal size iPad. Coming from an iPad 4 though, I guess you are not going to feel much difference in weight, but you are going to feel the slimness, larger screen and power of the iPad. It’s fantastic.
I take mine out of the house all of the time. I do also have an iPP 10.5 and mini 5, just because I have an iPad addiction and use the smaller ones in various situations. But, if I had to pick one of my iPads and only one, it would be the 12.9. At times I wonder if I should have consolidated and bought just the 11”, but then I use the 12.9” again and think that I probably couldn’t go back down to the smaller size without having the 12.9” still. The 12.9” just now feels like the size it should be now.
I’m waiting on the arrival of my Brydge keyboard and that will be like a dock for it that I mostly leave at home on my desk. I expect to still take it out and about with just the folio cover. I use a handbag or a dedicated iPad sleeve/case for it when taking it places.
