Using iPad as a primary device for 9 years
In this blog, I'll try to give a glimpse of my experience of using the iPad as my primary device for the past nine years. I'll try to explain how exactly I use my iPad, the features I like, things in which the iPad is good at, and areas where it's not so great.
I'll just give a general list of what I do with my iPad.
Video Editing
Browsing through Safari
Photo editing
Planning the day
Journaling
Writing scripts
Joining Zoom sessions
writing and publishing blogs
Reading books
Attending courses
For Media consumption(Netflix,prime video)
-It's a great Note-taking device
One year back, I was binging all iPad videos on you-tube when I was deciding whether I should be upgrading to the iPad Pro or not. I came across an interesting argument "instead of looking at iPad as a laptop replacement look at it as a creative tool in its accord." This point of view completely changed my perception of the iPad.
I look at the iPad as a very powerful notebook & this is where the iPad stands out. A notebook that unlocks my creativity and helps me create stuff & organize my life
I am someone who loves to write, and I write many things. I take handwritten notes- whenever I attend any class. Journaling, and I love to write my daily entries rather than to type. I also pen down some random thoughts that hit my brain sometimes. There's no competition for iPad on this accord, things like remarkable 2 come close, and it's a concept I do like, But my vote at the end of the end would still go to iPad because of these functionalities.
• 120 Hz promotion display
• Multi-Tasking
• And its ability to connect a keyboard
-Let's try to answer the big question
Can I pad be a good laptop replacement?
Well, for this question, it depends on your use case or what functionality of your Laptop you intend to replace with your iPad. One of the main things I want to replace with the iPad would be Video Editing.
Video editing is a use case iPad doesn't get enough credit for; video editing is very processor oriented, and an extremely demanding task, but iPad handles it just fine. Of course, LumaFusion, the software I use on the iPad, doesn't have every feature that Final Cut or Premiere Pro offers, but it is a good video editing software.
-Now let us talk about the things the iPad nails.
1. Note-taking (as I already mentioned )
2. For Organising or planning our day in the calendar, things, or Agenda (this you can even do on your phone, but the iPad's bigger display makes it more continent)
3. Entertainment hub., It's a great media consumption device.
4. It is a fun device to use, maybe because of the size or maybe because of its intuitive UI its a fun experience, not just with an iPad. That would be the case with any tablet.
-Finally, things I don’t like:-
When I say iPad can replace your Laptop, indeed I mean it. But the catch here is it can be a decent laptop (especially when you couple it with a keyboard case) not but not a very good Laptop.
The main reason for this is that it seems as if Apple and other app developers are restricting us from taking full advantage of the iPads hardware.
1. We don't have many pro mac apps or Windows PC apps available on iPad like Final cut, X-code, or Vs-code. Even for those available like Lightroom or zoom, these are only the mobile versions of these desktop apps, don't get me wrong, Apps like Lightroom cc mobile are great apps, but they don't offer every feature in their mobile versions.
2. When you connect a monitor and try to use it as a desktop
There are two disadvantages with this,
• -The 4:3 aspect ratio makes it annoying by creating blank bars on both sides. It is a great bummer and a big turnoff from using this as a desktop computer.
• There's no sleep mode, which means we should be keeping the iPad on when using it with a monitor; this obstructs our view of the monitor.
By D.S.S.R.Anirudh