I was doing this challenge right around the time that iPadOS 15 was released. Moving on, let’s talk about Safari on the iPad Pro. With the iPad Pro, I can get around about double that performance. I can get 4–6 hours of usage on that battery. Compare this with my MacBook Pro, late in the afternoon I will end up having to put it on charge. Though i tended to charge it up every night, so I can’t say for sure. With medium usage, I can get a full day out of the battery, perhaps even more. I don’t have to worry about battery life on my iPad Pro. At that point I really needed a replacement for my Microsoft Surface Book 2, which was sluggish and presenting lots of quality issues. Do I believe that was a mistake? Not really. Yes, I did buy a Mac before the M1 series. My MacBook Pro is an early 2020 model, the one where they gave it 10th generation Intel processors, and fixed up the keyboard. Which brings me on to the conversation of battery performance. It never really got hot when I used Zoom, and the battery did not drain in the same way that my MacBook Pro did when I used Zoom on that machine. Now the iPad does not have active cooling, but I don’t believe it really needs this. I don’t want a noisier environment when I’m doing video calls. Zoom makes my MacBook Pro get hot, which in turn spins up the fans, creating a noisier environment. Another place where the iPad Pro impressed me on this front is noise and heat. The front facing camera on my iPad Pro is leagues ahead of the shoddy 720p front facing camera on my MacBook Pro, which has absolutely no place on a machine which I paid $3,300 AUD for. In fact, I believe it performed the job to a higher standard than my Mac did. I predominantly use Zoom, and it managed that task with ease. This is a place where I believe the iPad excels, when compared with the Mac. Definitely a step toward making iPadOS a desktop-class operating system.Īnother thing I do with frequency is video calls. Finding the photos in the Files app was perfectly easy to do, and I’m glad that Apple has enabled support for external drives in iPadOS. Maybe I should have a look at the Mac version of Pixelmator Pro to get a better comparison. It doesn’t have the same level of features as Luminar does, but at a pinch, it is okay. Instead, I purchased Pixelmator Pro for the iPad. However I do hope they seize this opportunity soon. As it stands, Luminar and Skylum Software have yet to create an iPad version of their applications. On my MacBook Pro, I use LuminarAI as my primary photo editing and batch processing software. The first challenge was a matter of photo editing. I already had peripherals from my Mac, so I didn’t need to purchase additional accessories to do this challenge. I thought, ‘what if I put my MacBook Pro away for a week or so, and use my 2020 iPad Pro 11" as a desktop?’ So for the past week or so, I have been using my iPad solely as my desktop machine. All these changes got me quite interested. These include improved external keyboard and mouse support, and turning the iPad version of Safari into a desktop-class browser. Recently however, Apple has made various changes to the iPad to make it operate in a fashion not unlike a Mac. It straddles a middle ground between the Mac and the iPhone. I have always been interested in the future utility of the iPad.
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