So I’ve been using this 13” M4 iPad Pro now for a few hours. My impetus to upgrade wasn’t that it’s new and shiny this time around but that my 2018 12.9” Pro was on its last legs. The battery lasts only a few hours and the screen has started to discolour I presume because the optical lamination adhesive has slowly baked over time.
A few quick thoughts:
The thin and light thing is not overblown, and unboxing was a real WTF moment, especially handling the two iPads together.
I’ve missed a couple of screen generations so that in particular is a big jump and the older screen looks like a bad joke now
The keyboard initially seems a bit difficult to open but there’s just a kind of knack to it. If you open it like a book, instead of a laptop, something in the hinge mechanism makes it kind of glide open, and it also locks in place requiring just a little extra pressure to start the closing action.
Making the pen “click” is my new fidget toy.
It feels significantly more rigid than the 2018 model.
I went all white, 256Gb (with 3 performance cores and 8Gb RAM) and love the way the keyboard looks closed.
Admittedly this is not an un-compelling reason for me to get one… I have been thinking about getting/making a begleri, and this iPad is only a little more expensive than some options there.
Please do outline some negatives. I’m currently on the verge of deciding to do an 800 km roundtrip on a bus across three countries to go to the nearest Store as the prices in Croatia are crazy overblown as usual, and trade-in values for my old one are abysmal.
Some negatives would, therefore, help. Is anything even remotely wrong with it? Bluegate? Bendgate? Anything?
So I don’t know about a palette for triggering a shortcut but you can set the squeeze to run a shortcut (and therefore a shortcut that is a menu of shortcuts if you so choose I guess).
So the biggest negative for me is Squarespace. I use squarespace for my personal website, and it looks great and viewing it on iOS/iPadOS is fantastic.
It cannot be reasonably edited on a touchscreen device. The iOS and iPadOS apps are an unmitigated diaper fire. The web interface doesn’t work on a touch device even if you add a trackpad or mouse. Just an absolute embarassing mess that Squarespace should be ashamed of.
Figured some folks might want to see this. I know my screen is dirty, but this is real world, not cleaned up for a photo. I live in Florida get a ton of sun, especially at work. Those are nano-texture studio displays above the iPads as a decent comparison of etched vs chemical.
My last iPad was a 2017 10.5” iPad Pro, and this is a big step up from that. Love the Magic Keyboard (I’m typing on it now). Stage Manager seems surprisingly nice. ‘
This iPad Pro complements my Macs, which remain my primary drivers, but fills a couple important roles in my workflows. Looking forward to using it often.
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