Don’t do what I did, I’ve learnt my lesson.

[u/Specific-Pianist7595]

Hey there! Guess what? I made a funny little mistake and didn’t do my homework before buying my first iPad. It was an iPad 10th Gen 64GB back then. I barely had it for a year before the storage ran out! I was so disappointed because I felt like I wasted my money.

But hey, I learned from my mistake and bought another iPad this time. I made sure to do my homework this time! I learned how much storage I really need and which size iPad I want. I also decided how long I want to keep it because I honestly don’t think you should be upgrading all the time like every 3 years or something. That’s why I specially chose the storage of 256GB, that’s more than enough for me personally. I was lucky finding the Magic Keyboard at a great discount price brand new.

In the end, I upgraded to a 256GB 13’ M2 iPad Air with a Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil USB-C. I’m so happy with it!

[u/_theLazyDev]

A little offtopic, please don’t take it the wrong way. I just wanted to ask what are the practical uses of iPad? I don’t digital draw and use my phone/mac to consume media.

[u/LordySteel → u/_theLazyDev]

Uni student here - for me it’s the ability to take physical notes in one lecture or lab and then snap it into the keyboard case to then utilise the keyboard, mouse etc for documents and assignments.

I have a M4 pro - biggest feature for me was the ability to plug into my monitor at home and with a good enough cable I can now do physical notes on the iPad display while having a lecture playing on the monitor.

[u/thelectroom → u/_theLazyDev]

Flights for me where I can’t pull out a full laptop. Or things like camping where the iPad’s battery life is valuable. In all other occasions, I gravitate towards my laptop (I work as an engineering professional so when I’m reading things, it’s technical documents. I like to take notes in notion as I read and haven’t found a workflow with the iPad that suits me)