Brilliant. Finally someone who like me, really favours the iPad. Not only that, in my case I’ve been using the iPad Mini since the iPad mini 5, and I now have the iPad mini 6. It’s perfect. I write with Scrivener, having a few books published now, and use Word occasionally. I use the three Affinity apps, Publisher, Designer and Photo. They cover the lot. I don’t have an external keyboard. I use the floating keyboard on screen. I haven’t found anything I can’t do on it yet.
I’ve done over 750 YouTube videos mostly using my trusty Mini 6. I’m now waiting for the Mini 7.
I love this device. It fits in my coat pocket and has almost no weight. Appel Pencil 2 works easily with it, and magnetically snaps to the side. So I can be sitting in a coffee shop and tap out a few words while waiting for my partner.
I have an M2 Mac Mini and 4K monitor on it and it barely gets used from one day to the next.
So great, I love pushing this stuff to its limits.
I’m so interested in your workflow with the Mini 6. I have one as well that I primarily use for notes and ebooks. Do you film your videos on it or do you use it more for editing? Do you ever wish you had the external keyboard at all?
I do love the form factor of the mini. It fits just perfectly in my coat pocket in the winter.
Hi, I rarely use it for direct filming but I do use it all the time to screen record the tutorials I do for Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. I’m looking forward to the iPad mini 7, so I can make full use of the filming capabilities of Blackmagic Camera and Kino Cine camera. Both run on my iPhone now and using iCloud and photos, and air drop it’s easy. I also have everything stored on Dropbox, so I don’t run out of room on the iPad.
Editing I do with LumaFusion, which is so like FCP there is hardly any difference. I started out with iMovie, and still use it occasionally as well as Keynote.
I have done a few on the Mac of course, using FCP etc, but really, mostly on my trusty little iPad. I’ve never used an external keyboard with it. Too much clutter. I’m rarely at a desk doing this so there’s no where to put one! When I am at the desk, I’ll be on the Mac or have the iPad connected to the Mac so I can record the screen with OBS.
And so on.. Travelled to Spain, Australia, around the UK and so on. Because the Mini is connected to Dropbox and iCloud, I save Scrivener writing, well anything really from anywhere and it’s right there when I’m ready. Wouldn’t own a laptop anymore, and dubious about full size iPads.
I tried. I bought scrivener for it, wrote a book, but it was missing features, and I could only have one document open at a time. I recorded music in auria, which is very full featured, but it was always painful adding in other devices or using another app as an instrument. I finally bought a MacBook, and it just works for complicated tasks so much better.
I absolutely understand where you’re coming from. When I had to decide what I was taking with me on my last big trip, I brought my MacBook Air because I knew that no matter what happened, I wouldn’t have to worry about not being able to do what I wanted to do with that device. It turns out I made the right choice, because I spent about six hours on a plane trying to troubleshoot my home network (because I accidentally broke it by fiddling with it). I wouldn’t have been able to do that on the iPad because it doesn’t have an actual Terminal.
I have to admit I am an android person trying to do some of the same things (sorry the Apple walled garden drives me nuts) and am typing this on a Mi Pad 6. Recently discovered Softmakers freemium office suite. Their Excel equivalent is called Planmaker I think. On my tablet it's a near dupe of the desktop and let's u open more than 1 sheet in multiple tabs. There is an apple version of the app, I believe, so maybe u could give it a try?
Excel itself works fine, from what I can tell, and so does Apple’s built-in Numbers application. I have to use Sheets for work, though, so I have to actually use that particular program. Using it in a web browser works, but not the app.
Oic! Bummer! U can't just use another app and export to Google sheets? Guess your office probably uses the revision record n collaboration features then...
I totally agree! Switched to my iPad Pro fulltime after my MacBook went dead 2 years ago & haven‘t looked back since. But yeah, also still missing features that would transition it into a full force MacBook replacement. Until then we gotta be creative 😁
I enjoyed the The Talk Show with John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak, and one key discussion was exactly this topic. MacBook v iPad. And the Apple answer is clear. To paraphrase: "We built a super V8 engine (M series) and we want users to have that V8 experience in their Utility truck (Macbook) and their Sports car (iPad). In short, huge power at low cost and low overhead, available to all no matter their device preference.
Reading the comments here, I have found my people. I have an M1 Mac Studio but an iPad Pro is my primary computing device.
There’s a lot of hope and a lot of pushback in the tech community about putting some form of Mac OS on an iPad. I don’t want that. I just want them to fix basic things that shouldn’t be as hard as they are.
Give me a more robust file system, the ability to associate file types with apps. Most of all, please, please, please let me install fonts without the like 15 taps that it currently takes to install a single font.
Brilliant. Finally someone who like me, really favours the iPad. Not only that, in my case I’ve been using the iPad Mini since the iPad mini 5, and I now have the iPad mini 6. It’s perfect. I write with Scrivener, having a few books published now, and use Word occasionally. I use the three Affinity apps, Publisher, Designer and Photo. They cover the lot. I don’t have an external keyboard. I use the floating keyboard on screen. I haven’t found anything I can’t do on it yet.
I’ve done over 750 YouTube videos mostly using my trusty Mini 6. I’m now waiting for the Mini 7.
I love this device. It fits in my coat pocket and has almost no weight. Appel Pencil 2 works easily with it, and magnetically snaps to the side. So I can be sitting in a coffee shop and tap out a few words while waiting for my partner.
I have an M2 Mac Mini and 4K monitor on it and it barely gets used from one day to the next.
So great, I love pushing this stuff to its limits.
I’m so interested in your workflow with the Mini 6. I have one as well that I primarily use for notes and ebooks. Do you film your videos on it or do you use it more for editing? Do you ever wish you had the external keyboard at all?
I do love the form factor of the mini. It fits just perfectly in my coat pocket in the winter.
Hi, I rarely use it for direct filming but I do use it all the time to screen record the tutorials I do for Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. I’m looking forward to the iPad mini 7, so I can make full use of the filming capabilities of Blackmagic Camera and Kino Cine camera. Both run on my iPhone now and using iCloud and photos, and air drop it’s easy. I also have everything stored on Dropbox, so I don’t run out of room on the iPad.
Editing I do with LumaFusion, which is so like FCP there is hardly any difference. I started out with iMovie, and still use it occasionally as well as Keynote.
I have done a few on the Mac of course, using FCP etc, but really, mostly on my trusty little iPad. I’ve never used an external keyboard with it. Too much clutter. I’m rarely at a desk doing this so there’s no where to put one! When I am at the desk, I’ll be on the Mac or have the iPad connected to the Mac so I can record the screen with OBS.
And so on.. Travelled to Spain, Australia, around the UK and so on. Because the Mini is connected to Dropbox and iCloud, I save Scrivener writing, well anything really from anywhere and it’s right there when I’m ready. Wouldn’t own a laptop anymore, and dubious about full size iPads.
I love lumafusion, I’m not a pro video guy, but it’s sure easy to make something simple that looks good.
I tried. I bought scrivener for it, wrote a book, but it was missing features, and I could only have one document open at a time. I recorded music in auria, which is very full featured, but it was always painful adding in other devices or using another app as an instrument. I finally bought a MacBook, and it just works for complicated tasks so much better.
I absolutely understand where you’re coming from. When I had to decide what I was taking with me on my last big trip, I brought my MacBook Air because I knew that no matter what happened, I wouldn’t have to worry about not being able to do what I wanted to do with that device. It turns out I made the right choice, because I spent about six hours on a plane trying to troubleshoot my home network (because I accidentally broke it by fiddling with it). I wouldn’t have been able to do that on the iPad because it doesn’t have an actual Terminal.
I have to admit I am an android person trying to do some of the same things (sorry the Apple walled garden drives me nuts) and am typing this on a Mi Pad 6. Recently discovered Softmakers freemium office suite. Their Excel equivalent is called Planmaker I think. On my tablet it's a near dupe of the desktop and let's u open more than 1 sheet in multiple tabs. There is an apple version of the app, I believe, so maybe u could give it a try?
Excel itself works fine, from what I can tell, and so does Apple’s built-in Numbers application. I have to use Sheets for work, though, so I have to actually use that particular program. Using it in a web browser works, but not the app.
Oic! Bummer! U can't just use another app and export to Google sheets? Guess your office probably uses the revision record n collaboration features then...
I totally agree! Switched to my iPad Pro fulltime after my MacBook went dead 2 years ago & haven‘t looked back since. But yeah, also still missing features that would transition it into a full force MacBook replacement. Until then we gotta be creative 😁
I enjoyed the The Talk Show with John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak, and one key discussion was exactly this topic. MacBook v iPad. And the Apple answer is clear. To paraphrase: "We built a super V8 engine (M series) and we want users to have that V8 experience in their Utility truck (Macbook) and their Sports car (iPad). In short, huge power at low cost and low overhead, available to all no matter their device preference.
Reading the comments here, I have found my people. I have an M1 Mac Studio but an iPad Pro is my primary computing device.
There’s a lot of hope and a lot of pushback in the tech community about putting some form of Mac OS on an iPad. I don’t want that. I just want them to fix basic things that shouldn’t be as hard as they are.
Give me a more robust file system, the ability to associate file types with apps. Most of all, please, please, please let me install fonts without the like 15 taps that it currently takes to install a single font.