I would say the iPad has plenty enough horsepower to do what a MacBook can. It’s a matter of a purposeful choice to not put a desktop OS on it.
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Apple's M4 iPad Pro vs. Samsung's Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra
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SAmsung’s site described the screen as “12.4" Dynamic AMOLED 2X”
I take the “2X” to indicate a tandem OLED.
what are you still using? The original iPad?
I never have any crashes on my iPad
When my 5+ yrs-old iPad Pro 3rd gen gave up the ghost I tried the S9 Ultra as I am an comic artist and a 25yr Wacom user on the desktop, and the pressure curve differences between Wacom tech and the Pencil have always made it difficult to get my lines just so when switching between them. A friend has the S9 Ultra and uses Clip Studio, which is pretty much identical on every platform, as I do. He loves it so I said I'd have a go, despite being fully in the Apple ecosystem.
So I picked one up, traded in the Pro, and took advantage of the free Galaxy Watch 4 and free Buds2 Pro that came bundled. After the trade-in, and immediately selling the Watch and Buds on eBay, I think I spent £680.
PROS: The drawing experience is better if you're a Cintiq user. It's as good as I have used on a tablet. Handwriting recognition had some useful features, like convert to type, that I liked. There's a general sense with Samsung that they are trying to out-innovate Apple, and a lot of the features are undercooked, but the novelty is enjoyable and feels like old times in computing. Beautiful OLED screen, great sound etc. The M4 iPads weren't out when I got it so I couldn't do a side by side. I felt like the battery life was excellent, but then I was coming from an iPad that would hardly hold a charge, so YMMV.
CONS: If you're deep in the Apple ecosystem, you are now effectively operating with one hand tied behind your back. We all complain about Apple system settings; well, good luck with Android settings, where almost nothing is where you hope it would be. The little rubber nib on the S-Pen is very fragile - I tried putting a Paperlike screen protector on and it damn near tore the nib off. The bad news: you can't buy replacement nibs with the rubber tip. You have to buy a new pen. No saving directly to the cloud via a file dialogue as far as I could work out, in any of the art apps I use. The screen is huge, but as an artist, widescreen in smaller sizes is useless. Too tall in portrait, wasted space in landscape, and anything smaller than a 14" screen is narrower than a sheet of A4 paper. Unwieldy to use in the lap. And so on.
Three weeks later I bought the 13" M2 Air. Unequivocally a worse screen and a little less pleasant for me to draw on, but it's still a better day-to-day art and light-use device (I will never be a tablet-as-laptop replacement person). I don't know what question the S9 Ultra answers other than, I'm a Samsung fan and I want a tablet that works with all my other Samsung stuff. In that category, it is excellent. Otherwise, as others say, it's a great media consumption device, but at the price, what is the point?
So I picked one up, traded in the Pro, and took advantage of the free Galaxy Watch 4 and free Buds2 Pro that came bundled. After the trade-in, and immediately selling the Watch and Buds on eBay, I think I spent £680.
PROS: The drawing experience is better if you're a Cintiq user. It's as good as I have used on a tablet. Handwriting recognition had some useful features, like convert to type, that I liked. There's a general sense with Samsung that they are trying to out-innovate Apple, and a lot of the features are undercooked, but the novelty is enjoyable and feels like old times in computing. Beautiful OLED screen, great sound etc. The M4 iPads weren't out when I got it so I couldn't do a side by side. I felt like the battery life was excellent, but then I was coming from an iPad that would hardly hold a charge, so YMMV.
CONS: If you're deep in the Apple ecosystem, you are now effectively operating with one hand tied behind your back. We all complain about Apple system settings; well, good luck with Android settings, where almost nothing is where you hope it would be. The little rubber nib on the S-Pen is very fragile - I tried putting a Paperlike screen protector on and it damn near tore the nib off. The bad news: you can't buy replacement nibs with the rubber tip. You have to buy a new pen. No saving directly to the cloud via a file dialogue as far as I could work out, in any of the art apps I use. The screen is huge, but as an artist, widescreen in smaller sizes is useless. Too tall in portrait, wasted space in landscape, and anything smaller than a 14" screen is narrower than a sheet of A4 paper. Unwieldy to use in the lap. And so on.
Three weeks later I bought the 13" M2 Air. Unequivocally a worse screen and a little less pleasant for me to draw on, but it's still a better day-to-day art and light-use device (I will never be a tablet-as-laptop replacement person). I don't know what question the S9 Ultra answers other than, I'm a Samsung fan and I want a tablet that works with all my other Samsung stuff. In that category, it is excellent. Otherwise, as others say, it's a great media consumption device, but at the price, what is the point?
Not a fan of Samsung tablets or phone and I use an Android phone. The problem with Samsung is their UI, it is bloated, for Android I prefer a vanilla version, while my Oppo phone is not 100% vanilla, it is pretty close.
I was thinking of getting a tablet, Having a Mac, I thought going for an Ipad would be the best idea, but the prices put me off, so I expect I will go for the Oppo or the Blackview. OLED on something so small is a bit of a overpriced gimmick and to be honest, I saw an OLED TV after 18 months of use and to be honest, it is not good. My old plasma TV is 13 years old and only in the last 6 months of using it, the display started to have problems, but it still works, just not as bright.
I think LCD is still the way to go.
I was thinking of getting a tablet, Having a Mac, I thought going for an Ipad would be the best idea, but the prices put me off, so I expect I will go for the Oppo or the Blackview. OLED on something so small is a bit of a overpriced gimmick and to be honest, I saw an OLED TV after 18 months of use and to be honest, it is not good. My old plasma TV is 13 years old and only in the last 6 months of using it, the display started to have problems, but it still works, just not as bright.
I think LCD is still the way to go.
Yes, tablets are handy for certain tasks, but they're a waste of money right now. Big tech companies are ripping us off because neither padOS nor Android can fully replace a desktop. Tablets need to be much cheaper than a MacBook Air or Surface Pro to be worth it.
I like both. I would prefer Samsung over Apple, but but what I don't like about Samsung devices is that they contain scattered banners for the various stock applications. For example,why should I see the "recommended videos" section in the stock weather application??? Or when I configure or use Samsung Pay I should have a banner with the various partner offers? I would prefer Apple for a more polished experience, and Samsung for almost everything else....
If you're looking for a solid laptop replacement and you don't need anything specialist then the Samsung tablets are pretty great! You can run all the GApps and build it into a Microsoft option. With the keyboard attached it moves to Dex mode which offers a much better windowed experience than the iPad. Its IP68-rated as well which is incredibly useful for site work.
Whilst the iPad does have a better complement of top-end games (Hades, Death Stranding, AC Mirage etc) and runs them all well, Android does still have a wider selection of emulators. The S9 Ultra can happily play PS2 and GameCube titles at full speed all day long. You also have a native xCloud client.
The iPad does have the edge on app parity though. If you want something for CAD, Podcasting or drawing then the iPad is a better option. Video used to be better on the iPad but LumaFusion and Capcut are good enough for most users and fine on Android.
Whilst the iPad does have a better complement of top-end games (Hades, Death Stranding, AC Mirage etc) and runs them all well, Android does still have a wider selection of emulators. The S9 Ultra can happily play PS2 and GameCube titles at full speed all day long. You also have a native xCloud client.
The iPad does have the edge on app parity though. If you want something for CAD, Podcasting or drawing then the iPad is a better option. Video used to be better on the iPad but LumaFusion and Capcut are good enough for most users and fine on Android.
I really don't like iPad OS. But recently I had to try a Samsung/Android tablet. What a mess. I stumbled across the first bugs within 5 minutes ("Something went wrong"), the UI was ugly. Then I took a look into the App Store. Felt like millions of apps, probably 95% trash.
And of course without iCloud it felt like an alien and lonely device, only usable for surfing the web, feeling offline in any other way. I have no idea how I could make use of synergies with other devices at all. Maybe there are ways but would I trust them?
And I felt a bit like second hand embarrassment, a bit like using a fake iPad.
And of course without iCloud it felt like an alien and lonely device, only usable for surfing the web, feeling offline in any other way. I have no idea how I could make use of synergies with other devices at all. Maybe there are ways but would I trust them?
And I felt a bit like second hand embarrassment, a bit like using a fake iPad.
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Issued 2023, so no Tandem OLED display (so far: Only Apple, Dell and Microsoft most recent devices). Huge screen for a tablet (14.6""), you can see the specs here.
It’s a shame we only really have two competitors. But anyone who tries to compete seems to just get buried by the sakes of Apple and Samsung, and Apple I think is way above Samsung in tablet sales anyway. Still iPad is a fantastic device despite the OS.
An interesting one on the settings, as a iOS user I always found Android settings are much more intuitive as 95% of the time you just enter them from the application itself. Need to change camera settings? there is a shortcut in the camera application in Android, in iOS you have to close the camera application, go into settings, find the camera settings, then go back into the app. iOS settings have never made any sense to me on that basis.
Still all the Samsung bloatware and dual app stores and lack of tablet optimised apps and standby time that's not great. No thanks.
I used to pride myself on being platform agnostic but trying to find settings on my parents' Android phones has brought me close to tears of frustration on occasion. I know Apple has wired me to follow a certain UI pathway and as soon as I can't do that, I'm lost.
You literally just go to settings within the given app as you're using it, it has the same settings as system settings. Its not like iOS where you have one set of settings within the app, and another set of settings within iOS settings for the app.
You're trying to do the iOS thing of coming out of an app to change settings for the said app, Android avoids that daft mechanism
I agree. Hopefully Google gets serious with Pixel tablets, but that probably depends on sales
Tell me about it. I could have learned my way out of it, given concentrated daily use.
After years of this, nobody is shocked. If i see Samsung mock a new apple feature, I assume they’re going to put it in the next version of their galaxy phones