Got a New Tablet

[this_is_nascar]

... actually, my 1st ever. It's an iPad Generation -10 WiFi edition. Going to use it for both home and office, rather than lugging out my work laptop or home Chromebook when I need to do something.

Any pointers or gotchas to be aware of?

 

[KITROBASKIN]

Congratulations
Not sure how much you have dealt with tech but sometimes it is handy to access the world when out of WiFi coverage with your iPad. Using a cell phone as a hotspot is nice.

 

[bykfixer]

Check out a keyboard case for it. Especially if you type reports on it. And a pencil. Definitely get a pencil.

Oh, and a gotcha. Use the books app for viewing large PDF's. The PDF viewer has limited memory so you may get to page 22 out of 50 for example and the reader suddenly goes back to page 1 and will not go past page 22. Plus it's faster using the books app.

 

[this_is_nascar]

Forgot to say that I did get the Apple Pencil USB-C to go along with it. I'm using it for both personal and work purposes and for business, I will need people to sign things quite frequently and allot of them feel funny just using their finger.

 

[bykfixer]

This is my keyboard case.
The Mrs has one that you can also rotate to portrait mode as well.
Mine is an 8th gen with the old style plug and pencil hence the cap keeper on the pencil.

My mini case has a security feature

Nobody is going to steal a composition book.

 

[KITROBASKIN]

Sometimes a person wants to see a link but would rather continue on the same tab. This can be done by holding the finger touch until options pop up, one option is to put that link on a new tab.

Every once in a while, it is a good idea to get applications to not be 'at the ready', and thus taking up memory. Not sure what your iPad takes to do it, but ours requires a double tap of the home button. Then it is a simple matter of flicking up the apps and they disappear.

Also, turn off completely occasionally.

 

[bykfixer]

Sometimes a person wants to see a link but would rather continue on the same tab. This can be done by holding the finger touch until options pop up, one option is to put that link on a new tab.

Every once in a while, it is a good idea to get applications to not be 'at the ready', and thus taking up memory. Not sure what your iPad takes to do it, but ours requires a double tap of the home button. Then it is a simple matter of flicking up the apps and they disappear.

Also, turn off completely occasionally.

Good points. My old iPad has a home button. The newer ones do not.

I like the home button.

 

[scalpel_ninja]

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Every once in a while, it is a good idea to get applications to not be 'at the ready', and thus taking up memory. Not sure what your iPad takes to do it, but ours requires a double tap of the home button. Then it is a simple matter of flicking up the apps and they disappear.
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This subject discussed pretty extensively, and there's no benefit to closing the apps out in iOS. Some sources say it might actually consume more battery to relaunch the app from scratch. Apple software is really good at suspending and freezing background apps so as to not consume power. However, if there is an app that's glitching or clearly consuming battery, then by all means close the background process.

A occasional full shutdown/power cycle makes sense, as you stated.

 

[this_is_nascar]

This subject discussed pretty extensively, and there's no benefit to closing the apps out in iOS. Some sources say it might actually consume more battery to relaunch the app from scratch. Apple software is really good at suspending and freezing background apps so as to not consume power. However, if there is an app that's glitching or clearly consuming battery, then by all means close the background process.

A occasional full shutdown/power cycle makes sense, as you stated.

Same holds true for the modern day Android devices. Not like the "olden days".

 

[Monocrom]

Same holds true for the modern day Android devices. Not like the "olden days".

I remember when electronic devices just worked properly from Day 1 after being released to the Public. Just seems like a silly concept nowadays.

 

[DRW]

Practice the tasks you want to accomplish without a customer present. The tablet functionality is a subset of what your laptop can do, you want to know the limits before you put it in front of a customer.

 

[this_is_nascar]

Practice the tasks you want to accomplish without a customer present. The tablet functionality is a subset of what your laptop can do, you want to know the limits before you put it in front of a customer.

Good advice, thanks.

 

[bykfixer]

Practice the tasks you want to accomplish without a customer present. The tablet functionality is a subset of what your laptop can do, you want to know the limits before you put it in front of a customer.

I had a new iPad and wanted to show my boss how it could view a set of PDF plans. We were outdoors on a sunny day so the shiney screen was like a mirror. So I found some shade, opened the PDF viewer and started scrolling. I wanted to view page 77, but the limited memory of the viewer kept stopping at page 22 and resetting to page 1.
Fail!! The boss was not impressed.

That evening I put a dull screen cover over the "mirror" shiney screen and read about using the books app to view PDF documents. After that I showed the boss what was capable and the wanted an iPad too.

A cordless standard size keyboard is best if the tablet stays in one place mostly. Easier to use since you're probably used to that. But for on the go the keyboard case is a dandy option. Just don't expect to type full speed, error free due to the adjustment period required.

 

[KITROBASKIN]

Consider clearing your cache maybe once a month? I do it much less than that, but it might make your browser snappier.

 

[raggie33]

cant wait to apple or snapdragon drops cpu/gpu on a 2nm processs!!!!! omg the snapdragon x elite is insane so is the m4 by apple. but all apple tablets are good

 

[vicv]

It's basically a big iPhone. So what works on one, will work on another. (Gentures and features and such). I got a brydge keyboard for mine. They're really nice as basically turns it into a laptop. It's my main computer. Not that I have a lot of computery things to do mind you. I even have retroarch installed on it. It makes a nice retro game console with an 8bitdo controller. Here's me playing a 40+ year old arcade game