iPad Pro I went with 12.9 over 9.7 IPP

[aoaaron]

no not really. I rarely use the iPad for any work related task in hospital other than presentation making and note taking.

Its more just for entertainment when on-call with nothing to do

If i need any real information, I'll use one of the 1000 hospital computers which are linked into uptodate.

 

[Southern Dad]

When I bought the iPad Pro 12.9", I did not look at as a replacement for my MacBook Pro but rather a replacement for my iPad 4th Generation. However, it has became a replacement for the MacBook Pro. I have even went on business trips where I did not bring the MacBook Pro. Every previous iPad that I had, I used for media consumption, emails, and reading files. This one, I use to make documents. I don't even grab for my laptop any longer.

 

[Synergie]

When I bought the iPad Pro 12.9", I did not look at as a replacement for my MacBook Pro but rather a replacement for my iPad 4th Generation. However, it has became a replacement for the MacBook Pro. I have even went on business trips where I did not bring the MacBook Pro. Every previous iPad that I had, I used for media consumption, emails, and reading files. This one, I use to make documents. I don't even grab for my laptop any longer.

For documents it's perfect fly fine. I think all the major word processing apps like Microsoft word, pages, and google docs all have full features like tables, formatting, importing images, different fonts and styles and colours etc. So for word processing (and spreadsheets and even power points) it's perfectly fully capable.

Even for most photo editing it is now fully capable as well.

The only things I find difficult are working around no direct file access... It sometimes means having multiple versions of the same document file if you have worked on it in several apps... Unless you go back to pixelmator for example and delete the copy in the pixelmator folder on iCloud, after you've opened that file now in Photoshop fix, you will end up with both files - one in the pixelmator folder and one in the photoshop folder.

** I think pixelmator has now included option to export to a custom folder in iCloud but other apps have not done that yet. And files in progress I don't want in my photos stream because it's hard to go back and find them. So I prefer to keep them separate until they are satisfactorily edited. So it's just a pain to initially import to photos, open in pixelmator and then delete the one in photos. I'd like more ability to just save to a specific chosen folder and work with that one file.

Also let's say you have a project and that project has multiple files of different types like doc PDF jpg etc and you have no ability to easily save everything related to that project in one place.

File management aside I can easily deal with two apps for multitasking and using copy paste etc double click home button and the last opened app is right next anyway. So multitasking I have no issues with and I'm nearly as fast now as on my MacBook Pro.

 

[alecgold]

What kind of files do you work with? I use documents from Readdle's (and a lot of their other apps) and use documents to navigate trough all my files on iCloud. I can access a cloud station/synology the same way and understood there are many other cloud services as well.
Having several versions of one document is so annoying, one day you will find that you deleted/overwritten the wrong file.