They should ditch the ‘Pro’ moniker, and call them ‘iPad Premium’. That covers both the features and the cost. 😂
I guess today's announcement is for AirPods Premium Premium Premium? 😅 😂
The Pro is short for "Pro-fits". So if they release a slightly faster iPad Max Pro then you’ll know exactly what they mean.
I like it in the classroom for a similar reason. I teach medieval literature at a college, and it's light-weight to carry into a classroom, I can have the day's readings and articles on it and use it like an instructor's textbook, I can use TeacherKit to take attendance, I can use it to project images to the Smart Board, then use it as a whiteboard as I walk around, and I can use the Apple Pencil to mark student papers--either sitting in my office or walking down the halls when my butt gets tired of sitting.
one of the main point of touch screen is precisely to make the device usable when not sitting or in some contexts where the use of a physical keyboard and mouse/touchpad is not possible or not convenient (for example in vertical surfaces, on a music rest or whereverthere is no space for a keyboard)
No such devices existed when I was in college. Back in those days we had Mac OS 8.x and it was real bad compared to today’s tech.
I have always said this and I still stand by it--my life would have been MUCH different in college if iPads existed. All those days of lugging around backpacks full of hardback text books--ugh.
Funny you mention Notability--the first time I used Notability, the first thing I thought of was how handy that app would have been for lecture hall classes. Being able to add the recording of the actual lecture right into your handwritten notes? Holy cow I would have loved that in Western Civ or Psych 101.
Yep! Especially for Pre-cal - taking pictures of the chalkboard and projections (yes my professor still used those) and popping that right in my notes, lol. It was pretty epic.
My wife uses PDF Expert and prefers that. She takes notes on the margins with that app too - highlights and what not.
I started college in 1995 and graduated in 2000. Throughout that entire time, I knew maybe 5 people who owned laptops and I knew exactly one person who owned a cell phone. I remember the first time I tried my friend's new Dell laptop, and he was bragging about how he splurged for the bigger 6 GB hard drive on it so he could fit more episodes of South Park on it.
Portable computers weren't available when I was in college (at least not that also came with batteries and screens). 😉
My kids didnt like textbooks on computers for Virtual School because they lost physical page turning and post-it bookmarks. But when I showed them how to search for keywords and how they could long-press to look up word definitions (and ⌘+Space to sneak some basic math) then they quickly changed their tune. We've also repurposed old iPads as 2nd screens and now their productivity is really amazing.
I definitely don't go THAT far back, but I did use my fair share of giant sized floppies in the high school computer lab. And yes, those were text-based green text MS-DOS computers. (Some of the newer ones were orange text!)
