How has your experience been so far?
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How has your experience been so far?
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I used to use my iPad as a third monitor using Duet Display. Unfortunately, the drivers were sometimes horribly incompatible with Windows 10 updates, causing blue screens. I decided it wasn't worth it anymore.
Same here. Would like to know which software works?
If there was one that worked well, sure, I'd like to know what it is.
Same! I’d love a better alternative...
Yes! Before updating to MacOS Catalina, I used an app called Duet and it was great! The downside was that I had to connect my iPad to my Macbook Pro (so many dongles) and pay about $10.
But since updating, I now use sidecar, and that's been very smooth and I really like it.
I really enjoy it. Its super smooth, I didn't notice any latency issues.
Its great if you work remote or need an extra tiny screen to hold a window or two.
I only have an iPad mini, I image with the bigger iPad pro the experience is even better.
Awesome, do you use anything special to prop it up/attach it to your laptop?
I have one of those standard iPad covers from Amazon that fold into a triangle. Its worked well for propping it up.
Before Apple announced iPad screen sharing I was considering this as an option 😂
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I too just bought an iPad Pro 11” (pro tip amazon sells them “renewed” for cheap). I’m using it in many ways including an extra monitor. A while back I purchased the Luna Display, it makes things very consistent and retains quality — highly recommended for power users. I also saw someone on YouTube who uses the new raspberry pi as their mobile work environment that they connect to iPad. Very interesting.
I have and I very much like the experience.
However, I don't code much when I'm travelling so I usually travel with just my iPad.
If I were going to code, I'd probably use a cloud-based IDE like Codesandbox or Code Anywhere
Hope that helps! :D
Hmmm. I was really excited when sidecar came out. I have an iPad Pro. I hooked it up and then suddenly realised that actually, 95% of what I have on my Mac, I have natively on my iPad Pro anyway 🤷🏻. I think I really good use case is the Adobe Cloud, for using your iPad and pencil to actually draw on your Mac.
I've found sometimes my iPad Pro will disconnect when using sidecar. The trick/hack I use to get it to reconnect is to click the sidecar/iPad icon in the top right and click mirror display then I switch it back to separate display.
I've used Duet in the past with a 9.7'' iPad but didn't like it and usually if I have an iPad next to my Mac is to debug applications on it, so is not really available to be a second display all the time.
Besides, I'm not a fan of dual monitor setups unless they're both the same size/level. I had an iMac, now I have a Mac Mini with a 27'' display and if I work on my Macbook Pro I only use its 15'' display.
I recently bought the new iPad 10.2. Been using it as a second display on and off over-the-air. Experience has been great as far a second monitor is concerned.
Eventually, I would like to use it more as a design / illustration / note-taking tool that seamlessly integrates with my Mac. That experience has been a bit jittery and I am looking for tips to optimize that. I am using Notability for illustrations and notes and would like to know how you guys use this app in conjunction with your Macbooks.
I used to use AstroPad with a dummy HDMI adapter, which worked pretty okay. Then when Luna Display came out I switched to that, and it worked a bit better. Now that macOS Catalina has that functionality built-in, it works great.
The main issue is that it can be kind of unwieldy to physically juggle the devices depending on the space I'm working in.