I wish I had an iPad in 2022, but I couldn’t. That’s why it’s indispensable (especially at a discount)

In an attempt to reduce the number of gadgets in my daily meeting, I opted for the iPad. Like most other devices in a personal technopark, this one has two big limitations: wear with yourself and not nature charge.

to discover, a trifle. However, when there are a dozen different devices in a backpack, their number is already annoying.

To understand whether it makes sense to abandon the iPad, you wrote all your scenarios for using the tablet. device unique in each of them

1. iPad is just made for watching movies, TV shows and videos

iPad is ideal for watching videos in any environment

You can watch videos on YouTube of any usual layout on the iPad. The iPhone uses a small screen for this scenario, and the MacBook often happens to be on its own if you have a habit of using it in the kitchen or even the bathroom.

For movies and TV shows, of course, it’s better to have a big cool TV and Apple TV, but you need to go somewhere, then you won’t take the TV with you. But an iPad with the Apple TV+ app installed and downloaded movies across the street is my constant companion.

Slim, lightweight, easy to carry.

The tablet is simply indispensable on the plane, train, bus, subway, car. You can’t always get a laptop here, and it will be much easier to break it.

2. iPad along with notes – a unique digital notebook

There are plenty of apps for the iPad that use the Apple Pencil

Use an Apple Pencil with an iPad. No, I don’t draw: I need a stylus for handwriting. The tablet in my hands turns into a digital notebook.

Why write by hand at all? Apparently, in the case of using some other neural connections.

Otherwise I can’t explain why faster by hand sketch a text hypothesis or make a couple of schematic sketches.

By the way, “Notes” are more often used for all this lately. However, there is specialized software, which is also translated into printed text.

We are talking about the Nebo application, which, in my opinion, is the best digital notepad for creating any notes and professional documents by hand.

The app translates every word written in any of its 66 languages ​​and translates it into printed text. Also in Nebo you can write mathematical formulas by hand and draw the perfect figure. Graphs drawn in Nebo were editable even when placed in PowerPoint. The application is free, but to access all the features, you must buy the full version for 749 rubles.

As for design, YouTube has a whole slew of video tutorials where professional artists are available and explain how to get started with a tablet and Apple Pencil, give practical advice, and it’s all completely free.

Here is the basic lesson:

The rest of the lessons are collected in a separate playlist. Check them out, they are all interesting. For example:

● Fashion sketch from scratch. Sketching on the iPad in Procreate

● How to draw interior sketch on iPad

● How to Sketch a Tattoo on iPad

Fact: With the iPad and Apple Pencil, you can bring any graphic idea to life, calligraphy color and finish with a tattoo sketch.

Yes, I do not draw myself, as I wrote above. However, I want to emphasize the almost limitless possibilities for professional artists and ordinary amateurs.

3. The iPad is great for learning at any age

A universal tool for gaining new knowledge

I realized a long time ago how great the iPad is for studying in any of its manifestations. Especially if you learn something new online.

In the last six months I have been teaching web development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node. While in the middle of the road.

One of the elements of learning is an online abstract, which is divided into separate lessons. His comfortable to read at home and somewhere on the street exactly on the iPad.

After reading the summary, you need to watch a preliminary weight estimate on YouTube from the teacher. Usually it happens on the balcony in the evening after work or on the treadmill.

The App Store also has a lot of apps that can find something new.

The screen size of the tablet is enough to make out the code that the teacher shows, as well as other small elements.

Also for each lesson There are classes on Zoom with a mentor who slows differentiation and answers questions. They are also handy for using a tablet to compare something with a MacBook.

Practical tasks for studying are performed on a laptop, but there is no point in transferring everything else to it.

Interestingly, the wife also uses the iPad for study. Now she is actively engaged in English and serves as a teacher in workbooks in PDF. Just fills them out with your Apple Pencil.

4. The iPad is great as a portable second monitor.

Expanding the magical space is often very helpful.

On the one hand, it is convenient to turn on some kind of video on the iPad while you are doing work on the MacBook.

An Apple tablet can also become a full owner of a computer monitor through SideCar and expansion of free space. You don’t really need anything, just place your iPad and Mac, connect to the same Wi-Fi network nearby, and switch to Sidecar mode from the menu bar on your Mac. The switch is located under the AirPlay icon.

In macOS system actions, the new token is highlighted in a separate section with a parameter.

There are many scenarios for acceptance. I myself display on the iPad with the console and other tools for a web developer, I see how my code is working out.

The tablet can be detected for preview when editing a video, you can throw a working chat on it so that it is always in sight, or get a mockup from the designer for an example.

What’s more, with SideCar, your iPad can appear in a pen tablet for retouching sensations or other graphical experiences.

To the point: We work in macOS Catalina right from the iPad. Compare Sidecar to other services

5. The tablet sometimes becomes a discovered hearth at home.

When music is playing from the iPad, it will not be interrupted by calls and settings

Of course, Apple TV usually takes on the role of a home entertainment center. However, sometimes it is not enough for this.

For example, a video on studying on YouTube at the link. If you want to bring them to the big TV screen, you can open from the learning platform on the iPad and transfer to console via AirPlay.

In the same way, some cartoons for children that cannot be found on streaming sites end up on the big screen. The same applies to films in the original with subtitles, which are also not shown online.

Moreover, most often the iPad takes over the role of the music source from streaming for the wireless network of the audio system.

This is especially true when at home gatherings with friends, calls or sounds on the iPhone should not interrupt the background music.

6. Reading both books and the Internet is convenient on the iPad

Nothing better for text content has yet been invented

Some people prefer to read for microbial detection, but I already have way too many gadgets.

Moreover, not all reading content can be found on some gadgets. It concerns subscription book reading servicesas well as all kinds of notes and instructions online.

For books in standard formats, “Books” is most commonly used.

Favorite ones Most of the time I read websites through RSS.. For this, Reeder is used. It’s cool to open it on the balcony in the morning with coffee.

However, even ordinary web surfing does not work on the iPad more often than on a smartphone or laptop.

7. iPad surprisingly extends iPhone battery life

The tablet fits perfectly into the ecosystem

In the end, the remark arose that the alleged problems that are running on the iPad, iPhone and MacBook do not ease the decline in their dynamics.

Yet the operating time of modern mobile devices is still far from ideal. The iPad, which takes on some of the appropriate tasks, becomes part of the problem.

Summing up: why the iPad should not be abandoned

In short, the desire to buy an old iPad is possible only after a new one.

❶ The tablet is ideal for watching videos everywhere. It is not afraid to use it in the kitchen, in the bathroom and even in the gym. A laptop or smartphone is not a tablet for this.

❷ The iPad makes for a handy digital notepad. Apple Pencil is great for handwriting, sketching and diagramming.

❸ Nothing better for study has yet been invented. The tablet is a universal portable device for reading notes, watching training videos, notes.

❹ iPad is suitable for the role of the second monitor. For this, the SideCar function is used, which allows you to expand the space with the help of this device.

❺ Tablets can be detected by foci. From it at home it is convenient to broadcast music to wireless audio systems, transfer video to the TV screen via AirPlay.

❻ On the iPad, it is convenient to read books and the Internet. It has no limits on the amount of text content you can use right now.

❼ iPad measures concentration on other gadgets. It frees the iPhone and MacBook from the unsuitable task and increases their autonomy.

Of course, everyone has different scripts that come with the iPad. When I fixed mine once again, I realized that I no longer want to part with the tablet.

It’s another matter to update your own or take a second one so as not to share personal with the whole family.

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