iPad Pro Those who bought the ipad pro M4 with nano texture glass- any regrets?

[The Game 161]

I know it seems apple is making this more normal now as it's on the mac as well and may have similar for iphone 17 pro series.

Those who bought it for the ipad pro M4 how you finding it?

any regrets? or you think you will settle for this going forward?

 

[0lf]

I am too interested in the feedbacks.
Especially, can the magic keyboard damage the screen in the long run ?

 

[nathan_reilly]

i'm almost a year in, i love it. nano texture is so good.

I use it daily but not heavily because I also use several computers and other equipment. Not full time drawing like some. I am super careful so I am not sure about others, but I also work in an environment ripe for bad things to happen to tech products...I am a designer and a machinist so I use my iPad to make sketches and annotations on designs and operate metalworking machines to produce parts, sometimes in the same space if things are busy.

I have to make sure to keep steel dust/small burrs out of the closure areas of the iPad. I don't use my iPad directly in the machine shop if I can avoid it but I do go back and forth between my studio the shop a lot. As an example the entire upper edge of my MBP's display has magnetically drawn thousands of tiny steel shavings to it, and I regularly use gaffers tape to gently pull them off.

I was concerned about the keyboard wearing into the iPad's screen. So far nothing. I have travelled (flown) 4 times with this iPad, taken it on the train a dozen times perhaps. Usually carry it in a Waterfield messenger bag. I make an effort to avoid squeezing the iPad in its case, and if I am putting it somewhere where I think it will be squeezed I use the folio style case instead of the keyboard case. It's a bit more weight to carry an extra case but sometimes I prefer the folio such as when I am reading music.

I was concerned about the various oils that I often have on my hands (from the machine shop, not choir) affecting the o-ring that runs around the keyboard but so far so good. Mechanically speaking it is straight in the line of fire so I gently place my hands on the keyboard and make sure not to drag them across the o-ring or (allah forbid) pick at it absentmindedly. I thought the o-ring was critical to keeping the display safe but frankly the display seems to tolerate the keys just fine.

I use the apple polishing cloth every few weeks if I get some spare time. I have not noticed a single blemish on the display nor keyboard in this time (except the usual polished spots on high use keys). This was an incredibly expensive iPad but almost a year into owning it I have yet to regret balling this hard.

 

[SoyMaxV]

I used to own a 13” with normal glass and moved to an 11” with nano texture.
It’s almost constantly inside my Zugu case (fantastic, by the way) and have not used it with a Magic Keyboard so can’t comment on that part.
But I love the nano texture and have not had any damage on it since I got it last September. Drawing and writing on it is just lovely.
The only times I realize something is “off” is when watching media with deep blacks, but even then I just love the texture on the image. It kinda looks like a color e-ink reader but with actually good color depth and resolution.