#Mac of all trades ipad pro#
#Mac of all trades ipad Bluetooth#
#Mac of all trades ipad tv#
#Mac of all trades ipad mac#

While my cameraвЂ™s card was recognized, it wasnвЂ™t so easy to edit my photo-and all I needed to do was crop it to a specific size. Just pop in the card, transfer the pictures to my desktop, open them in Photoshop, and make the necessary edits.

To print (see below) and to properly crop a photo I took.

#Mac of all trades ipad mac#

In fact, I only had to open my Mac twice. My VPN and CMS worked very well, my external hard drive was instantly recognized, and working with Word was a breeze. The iPad has come a long way as a productivity tool, and thereвЂ™s a lot I can do now that I couldnвЂ™t before. I do like that IвЂ™m able to use it on my lap thanks to its excellent weight distribution, but the iPad Magic keyboard is still a few generations away from being perfect. And the Apple logo is still sideways when you restart. The trackpad is too small compared to my Mac, and itвЂ™s missing a function row. The iPad doesnвЂ™t easily come off like it does in AppleвЂ™s marketing shots. ItвЂ™s too heavy, too rigid, and too hard to open.

#Mac of all trades ipad pro#

With the Magic Keyboard attached, the iPad Pro is about the same size as the 13-inch MacBook Pro-but itвЂ™s way heavier.Д«ut the magic ends there.

#Mac of all trades ipad Bluetooth#

I like it so much, in fact, I just bought a Bluetooth Magic Keyboard to go with my MacBook. Typing is aa million times better than both my butterfly MacBook Pro and the Smart Keyboard, and I really hated to give it up.

#Mac of all trades ipad tv#

That means your widescreen display will have black bars on the sides like when you watch an old TV show on a newer TV.ДЄs soon as I put my fingers on the Magic KeyboardвЂ™s keys, I was in love. When you hook up your iPad to an external monitor, which is as easy as finding the right USB-C cable or dongle, youвЂ™ll see exactly whatвЂ™s on your iPad in the same aspect ratio. But I canвЂ™t imagine why anyone would want to. The iPad Pro boasts support for a second monitor, which I regularly use on my Mac. And worst of all, spell check was way more aggressive than it is on the Mac, so words often changed to things I didnвЂ™t mean to write. Some fields needed an extra click to switch to the keyboard. Selecting text with the trackpad isnвЂ™t nearly as intuitive as it is on the Mac, and depending on the app I used, I often had to reach out to touch the screen just to make sure the selection I needed was properly highlighted. Most of it gets thrown out the window on the iPad. Whether using touch or trackpad, text on the iPad Pro is frustrating to work with.ДЄs a writer, I work with text a lot, and I have a lot of shortcuts and muscle memory built into my workflow. I understand that the iPad is different than the Mac so floating windows donвЂ™t make sense, but iPad multitasking still feels Apple would address these confusions in iPadOS 14, but that doesnвЂ™t seem to be that case. Split View apps need to be opened from the Dock, a Slide Over window is impossible to close without touching the screen, and resizing is basically a guessing game. But while multitasking with my Mac is effortless and seamless, on the iPadвЂ™s is kind of a confusing mess, especially when using the trackpad. One of the main reasons why Apple split iPadOS from iOS is its multitasking advantages. Switching between apps is great on the iPad, but multitasking is a confusing mess. The contextual awareness took too long with some fields, wasnвЂ™t always recognized by text fields, and made me long for the classic arrow on my Mac. Even beyond aesthetics, the cursor just felt more laborious than it should. IDGДЇrom the size to the slight parallax effect when the cursor hovers over an icon, the whole system feels surprisingly amateurish and cheap. The iPad Pro didnвЂ™t just gain a trackpad, it also gained a вЂњreimagined cursor experienceвЂќ that Apple says is вЂњthe biggest thing to happen to the cursor since point and click.вЂќ Its circular design definitely unique, but I found it to be more frustrating than fun.