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I've got 30 GB on our shared plan. The closest that we've ever come was 28 GB, a recent month when we made a WDW trip. Those 7 hour drives consume a lot of bandwidth. One of our iPads is still on the grandfathered unlimited plan which helps. The other two are on our WiFi hotspot which is on our shared family plan.
But you know it's worth the price to keep the girls happy on a long drive. I never have to say, "If I have to stop this car "
Have a Macbook Air, but unless I need to use specific programs (e.g., Dreamweaver, Aperture) for work, I like to take my iPad Air 2 when I'm not in front of my iMac.
Just some of the things I do on my iPad are:
Evernote
News reading
Some games
Light word processing
Reading books
Some light graphics creation (see the app iDraw)
Watching TV using various apps
Movies on Netflix
Just some of the things I do on my iPad are:
Evernote
News reading
Some games
Light word processing
Reading books
Some light graphics creation (see the app iDraw)
Watching TV using various apps
Movies on Netflix
I use my iPad mini 2 for reading mostly. I save a lot of articles from Twitter or websites that I want to read into Instapaper to read later. I also use the Kindle app for books and PDF's.
I play an occasional game now and then and also use it for Twitter, iMessages, note taking in Evernote, email that sort of thing.
I play an occasional game now and then and also use it for Twitter, iMessages, note taking in Evernote, email that sort of thing.
I use my iMac very sparingly now, in fact it's used more as a beside media/TV hub now where my wife and I watch TV shows together in bed. Other than that I use it to sync apps or restore my iPhone or iPad if needed.
My iPhone 5s is my go to device while out and about, although I take my iPad Air with me in my backpack when I go to work and use it at lunch to browse the web while tethering to my iPhone.
When I get home I kick back on the sofa and relax with the iPad like I am right now, browse the web, play some games, listen to some Spotify while browsing, etc.
iPad has significantly reduced my iMac usage.
My iPhone 5s is my go to device while out and about, although I take my iPad Air with me in my backpack when I go to work and use it at lunch to browse the web while tethering to my iPhone.
When I get home I kick back on the sofa and relax with the iPad like I am right now, browse the web, play some games, listen to some Spotify while browsing, etc.
iPad has significantly reduced my iMac usage.
There's no doubt that the iPhones are the "go everywhere devices", which is why I think they are the most popular ones.
Yup. Either subsidized or financed. I reckon this more than anything else accounts for the popularity of smartphones in general.
It certainly accounts for the fact that they are upgraded so regularly, and why iPads and Macs tend to be kept for a lot longer.
i tried that sometimes ago (ipad3) but a full charged ipad wouldnt last A NIGHT
isnt that a terrible amount of wasted (paid) energy ?
I suppose some people can't afford $1.36 a year #
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tricity-cost-Gadget-uses-1-36-power-year.html
It takes 6+ hours to charge my iPad. It's plugged in every night, as is my iPhone which is lying face down on the bed running Motion X 24/7 Sleep Tracker. Truthfully, I don't worry too much about wasted energy. That little trickle of juice going to the iPad isn't anything compared to a few minutes of that dryer or electric furnace.
Use iPad mostly for browsing web, mail, games, and live streaming. Huge football and tennis fan. Many times have a tennis match on TV, one on Mac, and one on iPad. Same for football.
Love the Air 2 for streaming any of these. Display is fabulous and it does not heat up like my previous iPads.
Love the Air 2 for streaming any of these. Display is fabulous and it does not heat up like my previous iPads.
From what it sounds like, it just depends on the laptop you have. My 15" rMBP gets far less use nowadays.
If I had a MBA or 13" rMBP, which are both very easy to pull out, I could certainly see opting for the Macbook over the iPad. Although fairly light, the 15" rMBP has a fairly large footprint. When flying, forget it.
iPad Air 2 gets extensive use as my e-textbook and pdf reader, mobile gaming console (unless you are die hard fan of series like Mario, iPad Air 2 is a perfect mobile gaming machine), emails, movies, internet. Perfect for sitting in the library or coffee, or even waiting in classroom waiting class to start.
If I had a MBA or 13" rMBP, which are both very easy to pull out, I could certainly see opting for the Macbook over the iPad. Although fairly light, the 15" rMBP has a fairly large footprint. When flying, forget it.
iPad Air 2 gets extensive use as my e-textbook and pdf reader, mobile gaming console (unless you are die hard fan of series like Mario, iPad Air 2 is a perfect mobile gaming machine), emails, movies, internet. Perfect for sitting in the library or coffee, or even waiting in classroom waiting class to start.
At least most plans have been revamped thanks to T-Mobile. Before, you spent $30-40 monthly per additional smartphone line ($10 line fee + $20-30 data on older family plans; $30-40 fee on shared data plans) regardless of whether you got a subsidized phone or not. Before, I upgraded phones yearly (staggered upgrades on multiple lines) because if I didn't, I'm pretty much giving carriers $300-600 of free money every 2 years. At least now, if I don't wish to upgrade, I get to keep that $300-600 in my pocket.
That's a little weird. I mean, I use my iPad (3) basically all day and when I get home at 6 it's at 50-40%.
It's basically a second monitor at work where I use it for Evernote, calculator and some other apps like iEngineer on occasion. Also MR
. Being a designer I use it for sketching a little (not enough) with an Intuos stylus. I also like to compose a little music when a tune pops into my head as it does on occasion. I take tons of notes which I use the iPad for often, both Evernote and notes app, as well as more niche list making like movies with IMDB. It's also the occasional AnyList machine, but usually I use the iPad 2 in a Griffen for actually reading the recipe while I'm cooking/baking and my iPhone 5 for entering items. Now if I could just get my wife to put recipes in there
the 3 is also a part time Netflix machine and game player, but really the only game I've ever really played on it is Monument Valley and Blek. Oh right, Letterpress and air hockey too. Ok and that stupid penguin race game . sometimes it will order pizza, but usually the 2 does that and it also peruses the instructables and ifixit apps. I'm on LinkedIn more than Facebook so I use that app from time to time, although the LinkedIn app is truly terrible. I've used it to show my portfolio with Behance, pay mortgage, and now I'm realizing this list is dragging on way longer than I thought it would we love our iPads!
I use my MBP and MBA for web browsing, email, all manner of chores like budgets and stuff, plus the major work of my quilt projects, keeping track of inventory, previewing fabric selections for new projects, dealing with vendors, making size adjustment of block designs I want to use together, photos of work in progress, reading associated magazines and websites etc.
I use my iPhone for duh, phoning (once in awhile, since I live in a dead zone), otherwise quick hits on some email, news, markets, reading ebooks while waiting at appointments, listening to music, watching whatever selection of TV shows or movies I have on it. I use Notes in the cloud for my grocery list, love it, can update it from any of my stuff and there it is when I hit the store, ready to keep me in line.
I have an older iPhone (the original) I use as a WiFi device, mostly for snaps of my quilt work in progress or fabric photos for projects. I just leave it in the studio and don't have to remember to stick it in my handbag if I'm going somewhere. Everything on it ends up on my laptop so I don't even have to back the phone up.
The iPad Mini I use for ebook reading a lot, otherwise a selection of movies, and TV shows I have particularly liked and like to watch again now and then), calculating stuff or reviewing block designs or fabric photos being considered for some current quilt project, quick hits on news, weather. But mostly books, books, books.
The big iPad gets the most varied use of my mobile devices; the whole rest of this post is about what I use it for.
Reading magazines like the New Yorker and Economist that have great layouts for iPad.
Reading ebooks and using reference apps that have charts or maps in them, like World Factbook, stuff like that.
Movies and TV shows purchased from iTunes. I change up what's on there once in awhile, usually ditch them when finish watching.
Using Bittman’s recipe books (How to cook everything, vegetarian and the regular one).
A few very special apps that take wonderful advantage of what the iPad can offer:
1) the OpenGoldberg project offering Bach’s Goldberg variations, both the score and a performance that you can sync to the score to follow it. It’s a marvel.
2) an app from the American Folk Art Museum, a wonderful replication of the 2011 exhibition in NYC of 650 of Joanna Rose’s red and white quilts from her collection of more than a thousand, made over the last three centuries. You can see the overall effect of now the exhibit was hung, plus each individual quilt in full view and in detail enough to see the quilting stitches. The exhibit was funded by Mrs. Rose’s husband at the Park Avenue Armory as her 80th birthday gift. What a remarkable and generous thing to share with the world. How amazing to have it on my iPad.
And of course a few sheer indulgences:
1) breeding my collections of Pocket Frogs and keeping their habitats suitably decorated. Poor things. They spend months waiting for my drop-in visits. I love that app though.
2) playing Plants vs Zombies when I need something to do while letting my brain puzzle out some problem I’m having with the design for a quilt or wallhanging. It’s almost as good as taking a walk, and a lot more workable when there’s 14” of new snow on the ground.
I use my iPhone for duh, phoning (once in awhile, since I live in a dead zone), otherwise quick hits on some email, news, markets, reading ebooks while waiting at appointments, listening to music, watching whatever selection of TV shows or movies I have on it. I use Notes in the cloud for my grocery list, love it, can update it from any of my stuff and there it is when I hit the store, ready to keep me in line.
I have an older iPhone (the original) I use as a WiFi device, mostly for snaps of my quilt work in progress or fabric photos for projects. I just leave it in the studio and don't have to remember to stick it in my handbag if I'm going somewhere. Everything on it ends up on my laptop so I don't even have to back the phone up.
The iPad Mini I use for ebook reading a lot, otherwise a selection of movies, and TV shows I have particularly liked and like to watch again now and then), calculating stuff or reviewing block designs or fabric photos being considered for some current quilt project, quick hits on news, weather. But mostly books, books, books.
The big iPad gets the most varied use of my mobile devices; the whole rest of this post is about what I use it for.
Reading magazines like the New Yorker and Economist that have great layouts for iPad.
Reading ebooks and using reference apps that have charts or maps in them, like World Factbook, stuff like that.
Movies and TV shows purchased from iTunes. I change up what's on there once in awhile, usually ditch them when finish watching.
Using Bittman’s recipe books (How to cook everything, vegetarian and the regular one).
A few very special apps that take wonderful advantage of what the iPad can offer:
1) the OpenGoldberg project offering Bach’s Goldberg variations, both the score and a performance that you can sync to the score to follow it. It’s a marvel.
2) an app from the American Folk Art Museum, a wonderful replication of the 2011 exhibition in NYC of 650 of Joanna Rose’s red and white quilts from her collection of more than a thousand, made over the last three centuries. You can see the overall effect of now the exhibit was hung, plus each individual quilt in full view and in detail enough to see the quilting stitches. The exhibit was funded by Mrs. Rose’s husband at the Park Avenue Armory as her 80th birthday gift. What a remarkable and generous thing to share with the world. How amazing to have it on my iPad.
And of course a few sheer indulgences:
1) breeding my collections of Pocket Frogs and keeping their habitats suitably decorated. Poor things. They spend months waiting for my drop-in visits. I love that app though.
2) playing Plants vs Zombies when I need something to do while letting my brain puzzle out some problem I’m having with the design for a quilt or wallhanging. It’s almost as good as taking a walk, and a lot more workable when there’s 14” of new snow on the ground.
Mac mini is almost exclusively itunes server and some photo work or when I need to use a real keyboard (Pages & Numbers) ipad/iphone keyboards don't cut it for me for prolonged typing and streaming to Apple TV.
iphone 5c for on the go mostly just for calls/texting but also very handy having contact/calendar synced, occasional checking of train/bus timetables and maps if I'm lost! plus those spontaneous (usual drunken) snaps
Ipad air for almost everything else - it's just so easy to pick up and use immediately when relaxing on sofa for checking emails, browsing/shopping, reading magazines,news, weather, social stuff - twitter/facebook/messaging. it's my encylopaedia, atlas, timetable, shopping centre (shopping mall for our colonial cousins) travel agent, newsfeed.
Having been unconvinced of its usefulness when originally launched and thinking it was just another tech gadget, I wouldn't be without it now.
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iphone 5c for on the go mostly just for calls/texting but also very handy having contact/calendar synced, occasional checking of train/bus timetables and maps if I'm lost! plus those spontaneous (usual drunken) snaps
Ipad air for almost everything else - it's just so easy to pick up and use immediately when relaxing on sofa for checking emails, browsing/shopping, reading magazines,news, weather, social stuff - twitter/facebook/messaging. it's my encylopaedia, atlas, timetable, shopping centre (shopping mall for our colonial cousins
) travel agent, newsfeed. Having been unconvinced of its usefulness when originally launched and thinking it was just another tech gadget, I wouldn't be without it now.
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I have an iPhone 6 Plus, which is my on-the-go device away from home, and I find that I hardly take my iPad Air 2 out of the house now. I have an iMac which is the family's media server, video encoder, photos etc.
My iPad Air is still used the most at home. With handover, I carry on surfing where my iPhone left off, play games, check emails, social media etc. it's my sofa computer, and it's used heavily.
I feel complete in my setup of a desktop, full size iPad and a 6 plus, along with an Apple TV and 2 airport expresses, I'm very happy
My iPad Air is still used the most at home. With handover, I carry on surfing where my iPhone left off, play games, check emails, social media etc. it's my sofa computer, and it's used heavily.
I feel complete in my setup of a desktop, full size iPad and a 6 plus, along with an Apple TV and 2 airport expresses, I'm very happy
When I got my original iPad 1 (on release day) I used it extensively, incorporating it into my workflow as much as possible. I went the whole nine yards, wireless KB's, etc. After a few months I was using it exclusively and this was fine as I was traveling 300k miles/year and the light weight and battery performance was a godsend.
With less travel this past year (125K or so) I am back to a new rMBP for primary workflow and my iPad (now Air 2) is mostly a media and entertainment consumption device, with my iPhone 6+ bridging the gap when it's inconvenient to pull the iPad out of the bag.
Simply a matter of different tools in the toolbox.
With less travel this past year (125K or so) I am back to a new rMBP for primary workflow and my iPad (now Air 2) is mostly a media and entertainment consumption device, with my iPhone 6+ bridging the gap when it's inconvenient to pull the iPad out of the bag.
Simply a matter of different tools in the toolbox.
iPhone 5: Goes with me everywhere; used as a phone, SMS/iMessage, Facebook, Twitter, email, light web browsing, news and sports, some light gaming, occasional GPS, and music.
iPad Mini 1: Used either at home or at my part-time job (preschool aide; super useful during nap time since we're not allowed to have phones out); used for Netflix, medium web browsing, reading powerpoints for online class, occasional social media, and more light gaming. At 16gb it's somewhat limited though.
rMBP: My main workhorse for school and leisure; used for heavier web browsing, MS Word, managing my iTunes music library and iOS devices, and some Netflix or iTunes movies.
MBP (non-retina): Mosty retired and relegated to being media storage for my growing iTunes and Ultraviolet movie collection. The 500gb HDD manages that better than the 256gb in my rMBP.
iPod Classic: Not used as much as when I first got it in high school, but it does come out occasionally since it holds more music than my iPhone and can reserve my phone battery for other tasks.
During school I tend to use my rMBP more than the iPad Mini, but I definitely used the iPad Mini more this last summer. My iPhone definitely sees the most usage. I'm not sure if an iPhone 6 would change anything. I would never buy the plus. It's too big. Plus the iPad Mini is useful for my job when I can't have my phone out whether it's a regular smartphone or a phablet. Using my rMBP at work wouldn't be as convenient.
iPad Mini 1: Used either at home or at my part-time job (preschool aide; super useful during nap time since we're not allowed to have phones out); used for Netflix, medium web browsing, reading powerpoints for online class, occasional social media, and more light gaming. At 16gb it's somewhat limited though.
rMBP: My main workhorse for school and leisure; used for heavier web browsing, MS Word, managing my iTunes music library and iOS devices, and some Netflix or iTunes movies.
MBP (non-retina): Mosty retired and relegated to being media storage for my growing iTunes and Ultraviolet movie collection. The 500gb HDD manages that better than the 256gb in my rMBP.
iPod Classic: Not used as much as when I first got it in high school, but it does come out occasionally since it holds more music than my iPhone and can reserve my phone battery for other tasks.
During school I tend to use my rMBP more than the iPad Mini, but I definitely used the iPad Mini more this last summer. My iPhone definitely sees the most usage. I'm not sure if an iPhone 6 would change anything. I would never buy the plus. It's too big. Plus the iPad Mini is useful for my job when I can't have my phone out whether it's a regular smartphone or a phablet. Using my rMBP at work wouldn't be as convenient.
After I got my MBA last year I hardly use my iPad any more.
Just so much nicer to open the screen and it stays up. No balancing or holding, everything is faster to do as well, at least for me.
Only the kids use it now.
Just so much nicer to open the screen and it stays up. No balancing or holding, everything is faster to do as well, at least for me.
Only the kids use it now.