I am currently looking for a new tablet and of course my first instinct was to buy an iPad Air M4. But then I stumbled upon some posts describing iPadOS as extremely bad in comparison to Samsungs OneUi. On the Samsung galaxy s11 you can natively run a Linux VM which I find impressive. Also, the screen of the S11 is much better than that of the iPad Air (AMOLED, 120Hz, higher PPI). Does anyone know how flawlessly one can integrate a Samsung tablet into the Apple ecosystem? I currently use an M5 macbook and an iPhone 16. The tablets main use would be reading and annotating PDFs, no gaming or movie watching. The screen is very important to me as I need it to be extremely sharp and “paper like”. Also, the Samsung s11 is €200 cheaper if I were to get the Apple Pencil Pro with the iPad Air.
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Le_Chiffre
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If you want to remain in the ecosystem I wouldn’t suggest a Samsung tablet.
Pick up a refurbished m2 or m3 iPad Pro instead.
Pick up a refurbished m2 or m3 iPad Pro instead.
Thank you for your answer. As far as I know, there is no iPad Pro M3 and an M2 iPad Pro will soon be 5 years old…