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iPad What impressive stuff can you do on an iPad
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I use my iPad to surf the web, email and texting. I also use it to remote into networks via VPN and use Remote Desktop to manage servers. Sometimes it's a nice extension to my laptop while using that for one task, being able look something up on my iPad is nice when trouble shooting something and not having to minimize what I'm working on in my laptop. And sometimes I use it for music in the office or at home via AirPlay to my Apple TV and home theater. And sometimes it gets used as a TV with the DIRECTV app having the news or sports on while I'm working on something. And once I used it as a hotspot with a network bridge to share the internet connection with everyone in the office when the internet went down. It's a nice tool in my arsenal that gets used every day. Currently using the new iPad 9.7 that came out this year, 32 GB with cellular, space gray.
Produce products from sketch to print ready files all without opening my macbook.
Probably sound a lot less impressive to people who haven't worked in the design field but doing all of this without a mouse or photoshop or illustrator is pretty impressive.
Also getting into visual/layout design with some of the latest design apps that have become available.
Probably sound a lot less impressive to people who haven't worked in the design field but doing all of this without a mouse or photoshop or illustrator is pretty impressive.
Also getting into visual/layout design with some of the latest design apps that have become available.
hell yeah. proper things. even MBP and regular desktop computers cant cope. that type of thing calls for mega-beasts.
I use my iPads for most of what I do ... it is more the range of what I can do in various locations that is impressive to me rather than the actual tasks.
I have done some music on iPads with various apps when sketching ideas away from home, though I do prefer the MBPr with 24" screen when finishing these things at home. I also use my laptop for backing up phone and iPads, putting music and video onto them, and printing. Everything else on iPads:
Communications to various countries ... messages, email, Skype, FaceTime.
All office things.
Writing (which is most of my work, journalism and fiction) .... IA Writer, Pages
Research.
Studying and learning various things ... literature, cosmology, history, futurism, technology via books, courses, lectures, and learning art, with Apple Pencil, and better photo editing (Affinity), a broad range of health stuff.
Apps for... cooking, workouts, yoga, gardening, etc, etc.
In short, I almost always have the Air2 cellular with me in a small bag with KeysToGo and a light stand, I can work (or play) anywhere, with everything important on it or with access via 3G to cloud. One of the big benefits, even though my MBPr is portable enough it doesn't have 3G and I don't like using public wifi.
Another big benefit, comfort, less sitting at a desk, can lay on sofa for reading, research, study and also to write with Apple Pencil in Notability or Nebo (coverts to typed notes really well), or annotate PDFs,
Or to type this with one hand with onscreen keyboard.
I have done some music on iPads with various apps when sketching ideas away from home, though I do prefer the MBPr with 24" screen when finishing these things at home. I also use my laptop for backing up phone and iPads, putting music and video onto them, and printing. Everything else on iPads:
Communications to various countries ... messages, email, Skype, FaceTime.
All office things.
Writing (which is most of my work, journalism and fiction) .... IA Writer, Pages
Research.
Studying and learning various things ... literature, cosmology, history, futurism, technology via books, courses, lectures, and learning art, with Apple Pencil, and better photo editing (Affinity), a broad range of health stuff.
Apps for... cooking, workouts, yoga, gardening, etc, etc.
In short, I almost always have the Air2 cellular with me in a small bag with KeysToGo and a light stand, I can work (or play) anywhere, with everything important on it or with access via 3G to cloud. One of the big benefits, even though my MBPr is portable enough it doesn't have 3G and I don't like using public wifi.
Another big benefit, comfort, less sitting at a desk, can lay on sofa for reading, research, study and also to write with Apple Pencil in Notability or Nebo (coverts to typed notes really well), or annotate PDFs,
Or to type this with one hand with onscreen keyboard.