iPad Pro owners? any regrets?

[soapnstuff]

None! What helped a lot is finding out about these 2 apps on the forum: Goodnotes 4 and Liquidtext.

Goodnotes 4 works so well with the Apple Pencil to take notes and mark up PDF's; I use it every day.

And for studying PDF's I use Liquidtext, and that has helped a lot with my memorization.

The screen is surprisingly awesome (compared to my older iPads and my MacBook Air), and so are the speakers.

The performance is quick, and I just love reading web pages and PDF's on a big screen. Besides my phone, it has become my most used device, and I didn't expect that. No regrets at all, 1 month and 2 weeks in.

 

[RockSpider]

You make my Air 2 feels SLOWER

Don't feel bad about your Air 2 it's got a better screen than the stretched out IPP screen and I doubt it's any slower, I'm pretty sure my iPad Mini 4 is faster than the IPP and has a much better screen and I don't feel ridiculous holding it. Even my iPad Air is only a bit slower than the IPP.

 

[Nausicaa]

None at all, I've only grown to like it more. When the first iPad was announced, it was mocked by many, but I had been eagerly anticipating it and loved the potential of a large format touch screen. The Pro just builds on that and IMO feels like the perfect size. I enjoy using it a great deal more than my Air, and I've found the portability trade-off more than manageable. I just got a lightweight shell case and now I don't really worry about throwing it in a bag and taking it everywhere. The RAM and speed make it really fast - no more crashing and web reloads like on my old Air.

It's also amazingly versatile with Pencil, another product I've been hoping Apple would release for some time. I love drawing with it and it's great for brainstorming and taking notes in a different way on a digital device. It's really quite nice.

 

[Jasmynp]

You make my Air 2 feels SLOWER

It's not noticeable. My husband I and did real life comparisons. If a millisecond or 2 chaps your hide, then upgrade. If not, you're good.

 

[neutrino23]

No regrets at all. This is the most amazing computer Apple has every produced. It is fast, the screen is large and beautiful, the Pencil is amazingly precise, the speakers are great given the size of the device. I use the iPP all day long, much more than I use the iPhone. I also use a rMBP 15 inch but that is for specific purposes (iBooks Author, Pages '09, Graphic Converter, Parallels, etc.) for which the iPP was not intended.

I'm still getting used to it. I use it for note taking while taking data in the lab and I need to find the appropriate app for that. I have tried quite a few. What I would like is a mashup of all of them. Each has one or two really good features that the others don't.

Basically, I need a lot of sketches or photos embedded in my notes, so I would like to have drawings and text intermingled. Some do this rather nicely, Inflow and Notability do that pretty well Apple Notes has really nice integration of the Pencil but you can't annotate images and drawing and text live apart. All of these allow you to draw as if you had a real pencil but don't provide editable shapes such as lines, circles, arcs, rectangles, etc. Graphic from Autodesk has layers and great drawing tools but it is focused on making a single drawing, not on producing page after page in a notebook.

Now that the iPad Pro with Pencil is out I expect we'll see big improvements in the software soon.

 

[Branskins]

I'm still getting used to it. I use it for note taking while taking data in the lab and I need to find the appropriate app for that. I have tried quite a few. What I would like is a mashup of all of them. Each has one or two really good features that the others don't.

Basically, I need a lot of sketches or photos embedded in my notes, so I would like to have drawings and text intermingled. Some do this rather nicely, Inflow and Notability do that pretty well Apple Notes has really nice integration of the Pencil but you can't annotate images and drawing and text live apart. All of these allow you to draw as if you had a real pencil but don't provide editable shapes such as lines, circles, arcs, rectangles, etc. Graphic from Autodesk has layers and great drawing tools but it is focused on making a single drawing, not on producing page after page in a notebook.

Now that the iPad Pro with Pencil is out I expect we'll see big improvements in the software soon.

Have you tried Good Notes? Probably my favorite note taking app at the moment. They also have a Mac app that syncs your "notebooks" over iCloud. You can't edit in the Mac app yet but it's helpful when you want to view your work while doing work on the bigger screen

 

[hassan.sadozye]

Regret? Hell NO. I wish i had got this machine of awsumness sooner. Its really good at wht its supposed to do.

 

[Aluminum213]

Regrets? Not in the slightest.
The quick drain on the battery is annoying, but it's an annoyance I get around.



Holy cow YES! My girlfriend wanted to buy the Pencil for me - I was so tempted to put it in my cart when I ordered, but thought "She really wanted to get it for me so I'll just pick it up at the store when we pick it up."
I ended up paying for it myself anyway because it was such a scramble (and involved more than a bit of luck!).

Quick battery drain defeats one of the main selling points of an iPad