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Are iPads any good?
| nah
| If they're cheap and used.
Otherwise lol no
| Yes they are, for casual media consumption or AppStore gaming. Insane battery life, great display and (if newer Ipads) great chipset.
Oh, avoid the Ipad Air, fuck that bullshit.
| Nope.
| Apple products are not good in general. You pay much for hardware that you don't really own in the end as it is locked. Apple is an expensive prison island. I don't even like the so much praised "design". It's pretty impractical and makes the devices more like useless fashion accesoires than actually universal usable devices (what computers are).
| what about for art then?
| Apple products meh
| Great for artists, that is if you get the pro that comes with the fancy Bluetooth pen.
| >>260965
Use ubuntu studio (or kxstudio) with Krita (drawing) or a couple of great DAWs and audio tools (music).
I prefer KDE neon with kxstudio repositories, as I love KDE.
Save your money for good hardware (drawing tablet, instruments, audio interfaces, midi controller, etc.) and don't waste it for overpriced hardware that comes with proprietary shit. Art is about freedom not about using templates from industry.
| Eh I only ever used mine for learning dwarf fortress and steelbattalion.
| Danger/tech/ aka the "use linux!!" board is probably not the best place to ask
| >>262820
If you're gettin' told to use GNU/Linux then you know you're in the right place. You're not going to get a productive answer to OPs question because there's frankly nothing productive to be done on an iBad.
| i would disourage people from getting apple products due to their ungodly cost and limited capacities, however if anyone wishes to use an ipad for drawing purposes then that's alright
| Doesn't even absorb blood properly. 4/10 Wouldn't buy this pad again.
| iPads are for people too stupid to figure out a computer.
| I dont understand these comment... Ipads are cheaper than Iphones yet retain a superb chipset, and I dont believe u arent getting your money's worth. Hell, my Ipad 2 from 6 years ago still works, albeit very slow.
Productivity is limited on an Ipad but it works for business executive's scheduling or browsing porn, fuck if i know what they do.
OP, as you can see, it's not a good place to ask about ANYTHING regarding Apple.
| I'd say it's pretty ok for art. It's shit at everything else and only gets slower through the years, but so does most other electronics. It's just a bit spendy and you have to pay a monthly fee for more space which just just pisses me off. Maybe look into windows or samsung?
| No.
Unless used and/or heavily discounted.
Then it's a very, very marginal yes.
| >>265272
Right I should explain. I use the iPad to load up reference sheets and stuff while I am playing DF. For Steel Battalion, it's mostly to look up effective weapon distance and guide stuff due to some stuff being extremely vague like how to actually survive stage three
| There are things that Ipads are good with, like the mentioned drawing pen. (If you really want your money's worth, get a cintiq tho)
What really are ipads good for? I only see peoppe watching vines, browsing fbook or playing candy crush. Honest question here.
| >>268836
So why is an iPad better for "drawing" than any other pad?
In the end for serious, professional drawing you need a wacom tablet with a desktop, ideally with krita and running linux. End of discussion.
>>263398
This is no apple circlejerking forum. This is a cyberpunk themed game inspired board, so the good and smart ones value freedom against unfree estate-company-complex controlled dystopia.
We're not circlejerking on GNU, we discuss about the heterogeneous FOSS world.
| >>269287
>so the good and smart ones value freedom
Meanwhile in the other thread
>U use samsung/apple phones? Ayyyy lmao, cuckporate brainlet! Use chinese phones instead, muh freedom, muh security
| For general media consumption maybe. They are generally well built, take some beating. I'd buy them if I could find them at a good price.
| >>270639
Kind of off-topic, but this is something that really bothers me: why is it that people use the verb "to consume" with media? This implies that media is something to consume once and then it's gone, completely ignoring the fact that just like art it can be used (watched, listened to, etc) over and over again.
| So, in general, ipads are basically a fancy electronic paper and pencil?
Not really worth the money in my opinion.
And regarding freedom, it is no small feat. I like to own the devices I have bought and consider them as mine. With Apple products I don't quite feel that way when half of all functionality is bundled around that apple-id thing.
| >>271570 You'll know what it is when you grow up. Carry on playing, my sweet child, don't worry about these things.
| Sometimes they are ok, like when you need to browse the internet or use youtube
| no
| I never used one.
And I don't want to anyway..
| >>269290
Aren't Apple & Samsung majorly made of parts from China? So they are basically Chinese phones with us/korean brand. What is a brand? A marketing promise to offer the best price/quality relation. China has it's brands too, with the same promise. What are marketing promises worth in general? Nothing! It's just the usage of social/psychological tricks to fool ppl about the real value of the product. Big brands have big marketing budgets and costomers pay for it. That's all.
| >>263461 that's what they're adwertized as! The "What's a computer?" AD was the worst thing ever that shows just how stupid you should be if you're an Apple user!
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