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Post by nfriedly »

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Agreed! The thing about 6ghz is that it doesn't travel through walls as well, and tends to have shorter range in general. On the surface, this seems like a negative, but if you're in a crowded apartment building, it can actually be a major benefit. Even if a bunch of your neighbors end up using it on the same channel as you, you won't experience as much interference because the walls will attenuate their signals. Of…

One of my neighbors put in 8 access points for about 1000sqft. Swamped everyone else out. That is what unfortunately will happen. :(

If they're configured correctly, multiple APs on a given network can actually lead to lower congestion, because they can each lower their signal strength to only cover a small area... but it sounds like that isn't what happened here.

8 in a single small home is absurdly excessive. My home is more than twice that size and I only have a single AP (although I have been considering adding 1-2 more.)

Re: iPad Pro M2

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Post by wlesieutre »

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I have a 2018 model and love the 12.9" screen size for media, note taking, reading, sketching, etc. That said if they made a cheaper version with a 12.9" screen I would have bought that instead. I don't do anything that needs a desktop class processor. Artists do love the performance though, people use them for video editing or large image editing with lots of layers. Edit to add - 12.9" is also helpful for using two…

> That said if they made a cheaper version with a 12.9" screen I would have bought that instead. I don't do anything that needs a desktop class processor. This right here. I literally only buy them for the screen size, and because Android tablets are... really bad and largely have much worse (for my purposes) software available, even if I could find one in that size. I never really push the processor or graphics capa…

At the most general level, it does run a 2732-by-2048-pixel display at perfectly smooth 120 hz, and that looks great with the Pencil. But I'd give that up to save a couple hundred bucks.

The main bummer with the base iPad display is that it's still using sRGB, while Apple has been using P3 gamut pretty much everywhere else since the iPhone 7. Not sure if I'd downgrade to that one, but I'd be fine with a 12.9" iPad Air.

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Post by wlesieutre »

bpye wrote: post #283
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And only the digital painting parts of Photoshop, not photo editing. Which isn't to say that it's not a great app! It's just not a full on replacement for Illustrator of Photoshop. If you want an alternative to Illustrator or Photoshop, Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo are more in that vein.

How does the iPad version of Photoshop compare to the full desktop application?

I've seen occasional blog posts about X feature from desktop being added to mobile, so definitely didn't launch with feature parity, though they made a big deal about how it was based on the real desktop Photoshop codebase.

But personally I dropped Photoshop when it went subscription (last version I owned was CS5) and I've never tried the iPad version, so no personal experience to compare it.

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Post by miiiiiike »

roody15 wrote: post #210

I Work IT in a institution with 290 employees and have had 5 switch to iPad Pro's to "replace" their laptop. I am now 5 for 5 with all asking for their laptop back. iPadOS is nothing more than iPhoneOS renamed and the device is still too heavily crippled for desktop/laptop replacement. In my mini test case scenario I never said a word..simply the employee asked for iPad Pro.. I just handed it to them... waited... the…

I have my iPad Pro+Magic Keyboard with me 24/7. I wish I could code on it but that's it. For everything else it's perfect.

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Post by asdff »

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Does it allow you to have access to the whole fileystem, unrestricted access?

I think the arguments is non-developers don't really need access to it. You aren't configuring anything or doing anything that needs access to the file system. You are simply interacting with documents and online systems/applications that you can do the same as on a laptop. Add the greater mobility and the iPad pro really is a better device for most people. However, as another commenter mentioned, these individuals w…

Thats kind of a poor argument that just self fulfils itself. If we mask things like the filesystem and the actual shell, then of course no one will really need to use it. If we unmask these things, maybe paradigms will shift and they will themselves use these things.

IMO so few people know how to code because we have been abstracting it for years, not because its tough to do or anything like that. Plenty of things people do are just as challenging as coding. You just need exposure to coding is all, its easy to write bash or python. Anyone could do it in a week. Hard to get that exposure when a company decides it won't be possible for you, and its a slap in the face considering these features are there in the device but you have to jailbreak the damn thing and violate your warranty to get at them.

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Post by ghostpepper »

dagmx wrote: post #356
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Thanks for your comment. I was just about to waste time researching Procreate under the false impression it was vector. By the way, if anyone is interested in a vector drawing app, I highly recommend Concepts.

Affinity Designer is another really good vector app and exists on desktop too so you can have a single app workflow

Affinity products are like if Adobe never got huge and bloated and instead just kept working on keeping Photoshop/Illustrator/etc modern and usable

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Post by 1123581321 »

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I don't even understand the advantage of an iPad for non-drawing work. It's just a worse laptop with a too-small keyboard that can fall off and a square screen so it's not good to watch video on and an OS that doesn't do anything well. But Mac laptops are amazing, run all the same software, and don't have any of these problems.

I have an iPad Pro M1 11" with the Magic Keyboard. It doesn't fall off or detach unexpectedly at all. And the keyboard size is close enough to "normal" that I don't notice for normal typing. The only thing I miss is a dedicated ESC key. All that said, it only replaced my personal laptop. I continue to use a 13" MBP at work.

You can map caps lock to esc on the Magic Keyboard.

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Post by asdff »

Terretta wrote: post #296
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The biggest drawback of iPad OS is lack of windows, to drag around.If you don't need to multitask - iPad is OK. I tried going all iPad and my husband opted for iPad Pro as personal computer - it is woefully underutilized. "And that's not just me"

> biggest drawback of iPad OS is lack of windows, to drag around First thing productivity users do to a Win or Mac laptop is install a windows manager so they don't drag windows around. iPad Pro in its landscape dock provides split screen with adjustable ratio, as well as left and right floats, along with swipe between desktops, as well as push to view and pick a diff app. One app wide, one app narrow, tends to put t…

IMO productivity users are mostly lemmings. MacOS has plenty of good tooling built in to manage windows and desktop environments. A tiling window manager makes a lot of sense with cli based tools but for gui based tools imo becomes annoying fast. Especially when most websites these days will serve you a mobile website depending on the dimensions of your viewport.

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Post by llui85 »

aikinai wrote: post #264
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ProCreate and illustrator aren’t comparable. The former is raster while the latter is a vector app. I think you meant to or should compare it to Photoshop

Thanks for your comment. I was just about to waste time researching Procreate under the false impression it was vector. By the way, if anyone is interested in a vector drawing app, I highly recommend Concepts.

Personally, I use Vectornator, although it has a history of being a bit buggy on lower-end devices (seems to be fixed now).
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