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All iPads What Do YOU Use Your iPad for When You Have an iPhone and Mac?

Other than for textbooks, occasional web browsing, and youtube I barely use my iPad Air. I might sell it at the end of the school year and go back to physical textbooks (which I do miss).
 
The iPad is perfect for watching any shows or movies when you are out and about.

My favorite feature to use the iPad for is to read digital comics. A PC wont compete in that department with the screen orientation.
 
Browsing like what I'm doing right now when I'm away from my desk.

The reason why I bought y Air 2 16GB LTE is for Music Videos while I'm doing cardio at LA Fitness.
 
Here is a quote from me from a thread about iPad productivity. My usage habits have skyrocketed and improved and all it took was a little adjustment.

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Forgot the quote.:eek:

Traverse said:
You know, I've really turned my iPad in quite the productive little machine.

My 15" MacBook stays docked to a large external monitor at home and I take my iPad 3 with a Logitech Ultrathin Smart Cover to school. I use Word (and occasionally OneNote) to take notes during lectures or annotate professor supplied power points as they talk. I use Excel for iOS for some (very light) spreadsheet organization. I'm using PDF expert to read and annotate over 400 pages of PDFs for this terms classes. I've stopped printing PowerPoint slides and notes and simply consolidate them all into one large (50 to 200 page) PDF to study for exams. All my files stay in sync via Dropbox. I use Calendar and various Reminders lists to stay onto of my tasks and I stay on top of my emails throughout the day instead of letting them pile up until I'm home.

When I get home I pick up where I left off on my Mac to finish papers, work on my online class presentations, and work on my thesis (but I read the thesis PDFs and data on the iPad).

Together they make a pretty good team. My Mac is excellent for my heavy lifting tasks and my iPad works perfect as a light on-the-go device. The ability to use a keyboard in a more traditional laptop fashion when taking notes, but detach it into a more "book" like form factor for reading and annotating PDFs is a big help especially since some of my PDFs are rendered as one image so I can't highlight individual text on my Mac, but I can draw or freeform highlight on my iPad.
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Iphone and Macbook Air (i have 13") is a must. While iPad is optional I f you want to enjoy life more.
 
I use mine for reading PDFs and also it's a great tool for having clients sign contracts. I usually have them sign the paper contract to have for themselves then I also have them sign on the iPad using Sign Now to have a copy for myself as well.
 
Second (Third?) screen of my Mac & messaging at home.
An ultra-portable productivity computer + eReader when I don't wanna carry my Mac. (1.5kg vs ~500g...)

Sometimes a hard border isn't needed. Just fill it into whatever gaps you feel right.
 
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I have no use for an iPad anymore. My 6 Plus does everything I would need an iPad for. I know that the size difference is significant, but that doesn't matter to me. The portability and ease of use of the 6 Plus trumps all of that.
 
I use my iPad for Facebook, iBooks, iMessage + Text forwarding, calls, general safari browsing, eBay, Twitter, Games(Minecraft etc etc), youtube, reading the newspaper, movies/tv shows, calendar, Showing people photos, email. I also take it to uni where I use it to take notes, browse power points, type essays, view uni announcements, take down homework and so forth.

I also do the same stuff on my Mac, but I tend to do the lightweight stuff on my iPad, and for doing stuff on the fly (Unplanned google searches, emails or whatever).
 
I recently got Duet and having the ability to use the iPad as a second screen is really useful and convenient.

It works through the lightning cable so the performance is really good too.
 
Reading comics (Marvel Unlimited and ComiXology)
Doodling/sketching (Sketchbook)
as a digital portfolio of my work


it's a great auxiliary piece.
 
I go to work by train and an iPad is great to read books, newspapers, magazines & watch movies on it. Bringing a macbook along is to heavy(especially since have too bring my workWindowsLaptop along) and an iPhone is too small.
At home I also use for couch-"surfing".
If a had to go to work by car. I probably wouldn't have an iPad or at least I would not upgrade as much.
 
Just a few ways:

Magazines

Web surfing

Books (especially, cooking and photography)

Photos (Photos, Lightroom, Snapseed, Flickr, etc.)

Video (Slingbox, Netflix, Vudu, Lynda, etc.)

Remote control (Especially nice for Splashtop Remote, but I also use it quite a bit for Roomie Remote and Rowmote)..not to mention using it for Airplay with music, videos, and photos.

News (USA Today, The local paper, Flipboard)

Duet or Air Display - fantastic for Lightroom, MBP, and a Mountie.

Music apps like Rdio look great on it.

It is better for lounging than a laptop and it has a bigger screen that is better for nearly everything (other than portability) when compared to an iPhone. I still use the iPhone at home to quickly check Twitter or email, but I prefer the iPad anytime I am going to spend more than ten minutes with it.
 
Reading books, mostly. Also, watching video in places where a laptop is too big, like on an airplane or a machine at the gym.
 
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