Yes the new slimmer bezels on the 3rd generation have made the 12.9” much nicer to use and carry - making the it a no brainier if you want to multitask. My old 2nd gen 12.9” is now just used as a consumption device in the kitchen
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iPad Pro Poll: Which professions are using iPad Pros?
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It may not be as simple as that. If the printer has to be connected to a wireless network in order to work with your iPad wirelessly, your school's IT dept. will have to approve it. Furthermore, that would probably make your printer available to anyone on the network.
My assistant uses one and is very happy with it. She manages the billing, point of sale (izettle), scheduling of the office, facturation, procedures with third party payers, communication with patients and providers on it.
Sorry, just saw you said "excluding general office tasks".
Sorry, just saw you said "excluding general office tasks".
I teach online (LSAT and Bar Exam Prep) and made the move from a laptop plus Wacom tablet to a 12.9” iPP two years ago and couldn’t be happier. I found that I didn’t use my Mac, so I sold it, but I still really liked having my air 2 ad a companion device, so I kept that and upgraded it to the iPP 11 inch a year ago.
I think you'll find, on a statistical basis, that graphic arts professionals are going to be a much smaller percentage of iPad Pro (on not-Pro) professional users. There was a powerful economic argument for graphic arts professionals moving to Mac. The previous technology for typesetting/layout was far, far more expensive, so purchasing even "expensive" Macs was a no-brainer.
A bit later, when digital audio and video/film production became practical, the move from early digital systems running on minicomputers with hatbox HD arrays and custom-built hardware user interfaces to Mac/PC was another financial no-brainer.
At this point, those transitions are ancient history. The cost savings from those professions moving from Mac/PC to iPad is not nearly as great, so other considerations take priority - adapting workflows, display size, hardware capabilities, software availability... the typical "iPad can't replace my Mac" arguments. Trust me, if there were really big bucks to be saved, those folks would be far more adaptable.
The real growth in professional use in many fields comes from mobility, which doesn't affect graphic arts pros nearly as much as it affects other professions. For teachers, I suppose, moving easily around a classroom or from classroom to classroom is a big deal, and stylus input is also likely a significant advantage. In other highly-mobile fields that had yet to fully migrate from paper to computer (especially healthcare), it makes much more sense to carry an iPad from room to room than continually logging in and out of desk-bound PCs or carrying a laptop.
The economic argument in these professions is that iPads are cheap enough that one-per-worker is economically practical, whereas the economics of PCs still argue for shared use (especially when you compare the costs of IT administration of PCs to iPads), and the form factor is close enough to a clipboard that it's a natural adaptation.
So, if it's going to be one-worker-one-device, then those professions with the most workers are likely to dominate the usage statistics.
And if we isolate the discussion to iPad Pro... the price spread between "regular" and Pro is not that great - it'll more likely be a measure of the worker's salary/corporate status than of actual technical requirements.
A bit later, when digital audio and video/film production became practical, the move from early digital systems running on minicomputers with hatbox HD arrays and custom-built hardware user interfaces to Mac/PC was another financial no-brainer.
At this point, those transitions are ancient history. The cost savings from those professions moving from Mac/PC to iPad is not nearly as great, so other considerations take priority - adapting workflows, display size, hardware capabilities, software availability... the typical "iPad can't replace my Mac" arguments. Trust me, if there were really big bucks to be saved, those folks would be far more adaptable.
The real growth in professional use in many fields comes from mobility, which doesn't affect graphic arts pros nearly as much as it affects other professions. For teachers, I suppose, moving easily around a classroom or from classroom to classroom is a big deal, and stylus input is also likely a significant advantage. In other highly-mobile fields that had yet to fully migrate from paper to computer (especially healthcare), it makes much more sense to carry an iPad from room to room than continually logging in and out of desk-bound PCs or carrying a laptop.
The economic argument in these professions is that iPads are cheap enough that one-per-worker is economically practical, whereas the economics of PCs still argue for shared use (especially when you compare the costs of IT administration of PCs to iPads), and the form factor is close enough to a clipboard that it's a natural adaptation.
So, if it's going to be one-worker-one-device, then those professions with the most workers are likely to dominate the usage statistics.
And if we isolate the discussion to iPad Pro... the price spread between "regular" and Pro is not that great - it'll more likely be a measure of the worker's salary/corporate status than of actual technical requirements.
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No its not. My printer uses airprint and has a password on it. If you dont know the password you cant airprint to it. Plus it isnt on the schools network.
My dad is a doctor. His entire department uses iPads.
I run a relief organization, we issue our team cellular iPads. We‘ve been able to do field work where wifi only laptops had no data access. The iPad has increased our on ground response time many times over.
I also teach for a college, both in class and online, all from my iPad. Our entire school staff operates from iPads.
I run a relief organization, we issue our team cellular iPads. We‘ve been able to do field work where wifi only laptops had no data access. The iPad has increased our on ground response time many times over.
I also teach for a college, both in class and online, all from my iPad. Our entire school staff operates from iPads.
Computer Scientist - Use iPad Pro 11 for iOS & Web development, P2P pentesting, deployment and management doctrine, watching NetFlix.
I work in entertainment. My main device for work is a Mac, since my work requires specialized software, multiple large monitors with several windows, and more power for larger projects. My 12.9 iPP (with the pencil) is useful as a peripheral work device on the go, more specifically for:
- preliminary idea sketching
- viewing/presenting/marking up PDFs and other supporting documents/files
- occasionally acting as a pen-input display/second monitor to a laptop
- being a laptop alternative for general productivity and communication (with the keyboard)
For me, the iPP’s qualities make it a very beneficial work tool, though a secondary role, mostly for convenience. It is only a critical tool when work needs to get done on the go and I’m able to use it as a portable pen-input display with a laptop.
However, I’m hoping the developers of the software that I use for work create a companion/extension app for the iPad to make it even more useful.
- preliminary idea sketching
- viewing/presenting/marking up PDFs and other supporting documents/files
- occasionally acting as a pen-input display/second monitor to a laptop
- being a laptop alternative for general productivity and communication (with the keyboard)
For me, the iPP’s qualities make it a very beneficial work tool, though a secondary role, mostly for convenience. It is only a critical tool when work needs to get done on the go and I’m able to use it as a portable pen-input display with a laptop.
However, I’m hoping the developers of the software that I use for work create a companion/extension app for the iPad to make it even more useful.
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Work as a journalist for TV and take my Ipads everywhere: 9.7 to carry around and my 12.9IPP to work at home. Fire up my Mac only for photo editing or long texts.
Big-firm corporate lawyer. The 12.9" 2018 iPad Pro has been the most significant tech hardware development for me since we deployed color printers for all users (and the most significant hardware development before that was deploying PCs at the beginning of the 1990s). I compare and mark up documents using the gen 2 Pencil - it's far faster and easier than marking up paper and scanning or using Adobe Acrobat Pro. I also get a lot of use out of note-taking with Notability, although that's less significant.
I work from home full time, I do tech support for a electronics retailer, the live chat on our website, emails, and log into our voip phone system to take customer and inter office calls. The 12.9” 2018 iPad Pro is my only machine. Works out great!
Pilot, we do get company issued iPad Pro 11 inch 4G models. Documentation, reporting, charts, OFP handling and so on will be done on that device. It will be our central hub for pretty much everything we do.
It's interesting to see so many teachers making so much use of the iPad. As far as I know, I'm the only one in my department that makes extensive, full-time, daily use of the device.
I'm a professor at a small liberal arts college teaching medieval literature and a little linguistics.
I grade all student essays as marked up PDFs on my iPad. I have a smartboard that I can plug the iPad into and then use it as a virtual chalkboard. I keep attendance on the iPad using the TeacherKit App, I check email during the day, etc. I keep lecture notes on it. I occasionally use it to take in-class video or record sounds as part of in-class phonetics for dialect projects. Very useful to have it as a sound recorder and sound-playback for talking about the Great Vowel Shift and proto-Indo-European sound changes.
I've also either taken to keeping the textbooks on the iPad, either as Kindle Books or scanned PDF files of various chapters, so I don't have to lug several books around from class to class.
I'm a professor at a small liberal arts college teaching medieval literature and a little linguistics.
I grade all student essays as marked up PDFs on my iPad. I have a smartboard that I can plug the iPad into and then use it as a virtual chalkboard. I keep attendance on the iPad using the TeacherKit App, I check email during the day, etc. I keep lecture notes on it. I occasionally use it to take in-class video or record sounds as part of in-class phonetics for dialect projects. Very useful to have it as a sound recorder and sound-playback for talking about the Great Vowel Shift and proto-Indo-European sound changes.
I've also either taken to keeping the textbooks on the iPad, either as Kindle Books or scanned PDF files of various chapters, so I don't have to lug several books around from class to class.
I’m in the fire service, and so is my boyfriend. We went and purchased used iPad Air 2’s instead of using department issued Microsoft surface pro’s.
I'm in corporate finance and have the IPP 12.9". I use it for all of my handwritten meeting notes, signing PDF documents, and the occasional Word or Excel document. Mine gets daily use and has been a great way to keep organized.
I am a consultant with various clients in the US and abroad. After years of lugging around MacBooks, I switched to all ipad when I realized that I could do everything I needed to on the tablet. I could not be happier. My 11 inch iPad pro stores client files, background relating to cases, interviews, financials, reports to clients, maps, photos, etc. I use a 512gb and so far it has been enough.
in my office, I use a 12.5 pro that mirrors my travel machine but I don’t always take it with me since the smaller iPad is so capable.
in my office, I use a 12.5 pro that mirrors my travel machine but I don’t always take it with me since the smaller iPad is so capable.