In short:
If I could have only one, I'd have my 10.5".
In long:
For an advice to others, I'd say: it depends on your use of the device.
I bought my 10.5" Pro (with the optional Smart Keyboard) as my home work horse, my (all but) desktop replacement. Great.
I bought the first 12.9" Pro (with an Apple Pencil and a Logitech Creative keyboard) as a graphics powerhouse. I just recently found good use for it. That Creative keyboard is great, but (in my opinion) it turns a great tablet into a mediocre notebook. I now use it with a cover that can act as a 360° stand. I may use portrait orientation more than landscape, and I consider quickly switching a key feature of a tablet.
I'm still fond of my light Air 2. It's the traveling one.
I also have an iPad 4 (dedicated to making music, but I don't find the time for that) and an iPad 2 (based in the kitchen).
All five feature cellular capability, and therefore GPS. The 10.5" and Air 2 actually have SIM cards inserted.
A factor that may make me buy another iPad (probably another 12.9" Pro with LTE) is my recent involvement in boating. I fondly remember the short trip with a motor yacht when we had left our printed charts aboard the sailing yacht, and I was glad to have a navigation app with charts installed on my Air 2 (with GPS).
No problem on that motor boat, but I have become obsessed with battery life when navigation is concerned. (I use Google Maps for navigating directions on my bicycle.) GPS seems to draw a lot of power. To the extent of me deciding to stop using Android devices alongside my iOS ones when navigation is involved. (I tracked a cycling trip using Road Bike Pro on both my iPhone 6 and its counterpart Galaxy S6, the latter limited to that, the former not.. Yet the battery drain of the Galaxy was hopelessly greater.)
Another note on navigation: GPS is omnipresent, but mobile networks (let alone wifi) aren't. So do load your appropriate off-line maps before you set off. Which implies: make sure that your device has the GBs of storage available.
By the way, I occasionally use screen mirroring (like AirPlay) to project the screen of my small device onto a large screen. I recently bought a Full HD projector and a 2.5 * 1.5 m screen. I could show contents from my NAS at home using my iPhone 6. Even wirelessly, as my projector has a wifi option installed.
So do list your intended uses for your one device, along with the features needed, before you settle.
If I could have only one, I'd have my 10.5".
In long:
For an advice to others, I'd say: it depends on your use of the device.
I bought my 10.5" Pro (with the optional Smart Keyboard) as my home work horse, my (all but) desktop replacement. Great.
I bought the first 12.9" Pro (with an Apple Pencil and a Logitech Creative keyboard) as a graphics powerhouse. I just recently found good use for it. That Creative keyboard is great, but (in my opinion) it turns a great tablet into a mediocre notebook. I now use it with a cover that can act as a 360° stand. I may use portrait orientation more than landscape, and I consider quickly switching a key feature of a tablet.
I'm still fond of my light Air 2. It's the traveling one.
I also have an iPad 4 (dedicated to making music, but I don't find the time for that) and an iPad 2 (based in the kitchen).
All five feature cellular capability, and therefore GPS. The 10.5" and Air 2 actually have SIM cards inserted.
A factor that may make me buy another iPad (probably another 12.9" Pro with LTE) is my recent involvement in boating. I fondly remember the short trip with a motor yacht when we had left our printed charts aboard the sailing yacht, and I was glad to have a navigation app with charts installed on my Air 2 (with GPS).
No problem on that motor boat, but I have become obsessed with battery life when navigation is concerned. (I use Google Maps for navigating directions on my bicycle.) GPS seems to draw a lot of power. To the extent of me deciding to stop using Android devices alongside my iOS ones when navigation is involved. (I tracked a cycling trip using Road Bike Pro on both my iPhone 6 and its counterpart Galaxy S6, the latter limited to that, the former not.. Yet the battery drain of the Galaxy was hopelessly greater.)
Another note on navigation: GPS is omnipresent, but mobile networks (let alone wifi) aren't. So do load your appropriate off-line maps before you set off. Which implies: make sure that your device has the GBs of storage available.
By the way, I occasionally use screen mirroring (like AirPlay) to project the screen of my small device onto a large screen. I recently bought a Full HD projector and a 2.5 * 1.5 m screen. I could show contents from my NAS at home using my iPhone 6. Even wirelessly, as my projector has a wifi option installed.
So do list your intended uses for your one device, along with the features needed, before you settle.
--
Chris
in the Netherlands
reacting to:
On 24 Dec 2017, 08:25 +0100, Gretchen Hunter gretchenhunter@mac.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com>, wrote:
For those who have used a 12.9 and a 10.5 iPad Pro, which do you prefer if you could only have one? I know some people have multiple iPad Pros.
Thanks.
Gretchen
Sent from my iPad Mini 4
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