Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I've only just read about the remarkable - yet to see any real world examples of it being used but considering the price (inc. pen and folio) was £650 I'd probably go for the iPad.

Spoke to a contractor who used a remarkable. He rated it but also said it's more or less a specialised ipad

I'm all for having a tool that does one job especially well (looking at you Kindle) but how much better is the remarkable than the iPad?

I'm sat here with a mountain of note books thinking if I had a digital way of doing this I'd be far better off.

@Tenderloin How about the wacom Bamboo slate?

@6pt what's the best bang for your buck ipad now, to get on this handwriting recognition note taking thing. My ipad mini is ancient, 1st or 2nd gen. So which model ipad air/pro should i be looking out for on ebay?
Also £300 quid for a keyboard and £119 for an apple pen christ on a bike!

New iPad Air is basically a pro and is faster in some regards. Best bang-for-buck release in a while if you’re after new. It does cost more though.

iPad and pen is great, replaces print, sign, scan, email with open, sign, save, email. Saves trees and your stuff is saved correctly thanks to the files app accessing all your data on every cloud everywhere.

I haven’t touched my montblanc fountain pen in so long the nib has dried out.

I’m on pro 11 but if I was buying now I’d get basic iPad Air. You don’t need onboard storage when you have cloud storage and decent Wi-fi.

I've ordered a remarkable 2 as I have coveted one since they first came out, and they were doing an introductory offer for the new model. But that seems to have finished now and they are back up to £450.

It hasn't arrived yet, and while I don't regret purchasing it (yet), for similar reasons of liking things that do one thing well, I do think that perhaps an ipad air is a more sensible choice.

Particularly since that now I'm working from home I don't actually have anywhere to go where I might need to take notes.

The only people I've seen with remarkables in the wild are academics.

I have the phone but no case yet

Case just arrived, 45 minutes to go on the data transfer

Apple saving the planet with separate deliveries!

Thank you!

Swapping XS for a 12 Pro, my main concern is camera quality and battery life. Perf is still good on the XS even with iOS 14. Arrives next week.

(Of course by swapping I mean hand-down, not send back to Apple for "up to £280". What a poop deal)

was looking at them, but the price of the additional bits (2nd gen pencil/ cheaper folio keyboard) moves it towards laptop territory...

Swapping XS for a 12 Pro, my main concern is camera quality and battery life.

11 Pro camera was much better than the iPhone X I had before, and better than my girlfriend's XS. 12 Pro will definitely be better than an XS. Battery life has been better on the 11 Pro too.

No - The Remarkable is just really, really good at replicating writing on paper honestly it feels so close in every way. BUT I wanted an iPad and had been going for a pro until they announced the Air. It means that rather than a laptop and Remarkable or pen+paper I can just take an iPad to meetings etc. Less of an issue now but for me was the best decision.

Tech bros love Remarkables too

They are really excellent and I came pretty close when they first announced v2

I just fondled an iPhone 12 Pro IRL...

Feels frikkin weird, bigger and heavier than the 11/XS/X which is exacerbated by the slab sides.

The steel band around the edges is really freaky, feels cheap & plastic somehow, like a Samsung from 2009. Maybe it's coated with the same 'ceramic' stuff as the screen? Whatever it is, it feels nasty in the hand to me... Weird squeaky 'juddering' sensation when I ran my finger along it.

The bog-standard 12 feels much nicer!

I have a 256Gb XS- would it be a strange move to go to a 13 Mini?

Ive used a remarkable, lots of colleagues use them. I'd say you need pretty decent handwriting for it to be even remotely legible, but I have that problem with the Apple Pencil too

They seem to be quite similar size "on paper", but I guess the squared off design could make it feel different in hand.
I was quite sure to go for the regular iPhone 12 this year, possibly a 12 mini.
But there seem to be good deals out there for the iPhone 11 pro at the moment. Last version of a true and tested design is not necessary a bad thing.

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