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  1. Comment on Is an iPad enough for college students these days? in ~tech

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    Use an actual keyboard, Bluetooth preffered. It's essentially a 10-12inch screen.

    Use an actual keyboard, Bluetooth preffered. It's essentially a 10-12inch screen.

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  2. Comment on Is an iPad enough for college students these days? in ~tech

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    I've been rocking a 2020 iPad pro since it came out and haven't felt the need to upgrade. Now mind you I do have a ThinkPad that I use as well but I bought I second hand and it's for coding but I...

    I've been rocking a 2020 iPad pro since it came out and haven't felt the need to upgrade. Now mind you I do have a ThinkPad that I use as well but I bought I second hand and it's for coding but I learned how to code off my iPad as well. I haven't needed much more.

    When I was in school the iPad was more than enough. I wrote notes in good notes before transferring over to notability as it was easier to have endless pages for lectures. There was the added benefit of being able to audio record my lectures and have my notes sync up with them. It also had math conversions available if I so choose. It was an added cost but if you're not good at math it's an option. Most of the things that I needed to submit for school we're done through some type of web portal whether it be MyMathLab canvas, etc. And I didn't really have much need for much else. I had all my textbooks on the iPad and highlighted them with the pencil. I was able to send screenshots to my friends it was a very smooth workflow. Eventually I added a second brain solution originally being Notion and then to Obsidian for all my notes taking needs as being able to reference my notes and connect them to other notes was unrivaled. Also you can add hand written notes to Obsidian and they are still referenceable with a plugin

    Microsoft 365 has a functioning app which gives you access to the entire office 365 suite and it works well enough.

    There is something to be said about the apple ecosystem but for me it was never an issue, I used my girlfriends Mac to see if I'd ever view my notes on there since notability has a desktop version and I never did, my ipad stayed a work device, I saved pdf versions of my notebooks as backups and iCloud stored them before I realized I could use my one drive which came with my office subscription.

    Id highly recommend the iPad air M1 with the second tier storage. The iPad does not have enough going for it to utilize the M2 chip. I have the Pro with 128gbs and am able to mange it cause I setup a nas with a raspberry pi. But when I do more intensive things like photo edit with affinity photo or draw with procreate I sometimes wish I had more space but again I've learned to manage it very well and Ive never actually hit full. PS the Air is the cheapest model you can get that supports the gen 2 pencil, and to me that's worth it.

    If you need a Mac get a MacBook Air M1 used or refurbished. The performance from the M2 refresh isnt substantial enough to warrent the price. But uses those saving to get more storage cause unlike my ThinkPad with it's upgraded 1tb drive, storage is not upgradable. And desktop apps take up more space. 512gb minimum.

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