Stepped up to the iPP M1 11” 256GB from a iPP 10.5 256GB, Smart Keyboard folio from Smart Keyboard cover.
Love the thing to bits so far. The screen is measurably larger, plain to see side by side, but getting used to the thicker black bezels tops and bottom in landscape vs the thinner white ones on the 10.5. Deceptive though as reading comics via ComiXology & Chunky is much better - the slight uptick in screen size makes text much more legible to my 48 year old eyes with glasses.
And the speakers! Playing back everything from classic rock to chamber quartets via Apple Music and this thing can go loud, stays clean and sounds wonderful. A quick watch of the opening of Blade Runner and yes, this is going to be quite the improvement for music and video vs the 10.5. I’ve yet to try Spatial Audio with it with my APP.
Enjoying the Smart Keyboard folio as well, mostly with the lack of a hinge/crease on the base when expanded and set up for typing; the previous keyboard had a tendency to fold and the iPad topple forward when used on a soft lap vs a hard surface/table.
Not even come close to taxing the machine yet; the biggest difference I’m seeing is the sheer number of apps and Safar tabs I can switch away from and not have them having to reload when I switch back to them.
My 10.5 was 90% of a laptop replacement to me over the past few years; e-reader, comic reader, note taking machine, household budgeting, web browsing, music, audiobooks and occasional video watching doohickey. The gap has closed a little more, and will be more than happy with this machine even if future iterations of iPadOS stagnate where it is now.
When TC next get onstage/appears in an event video touting the customer satisfaction figures for the iPP, I’m happy to be counted amongst them.
