iPad Pro vs Galaxy Tab S6 | ULTIMATE School Comparison! By Noah Herman

So I've been in college for about two weeks now, and I've, been using the iPad Pro for a lot of my school oriented tasks, specifically handwriting notes and accessing files for my courses and I recently got the tab as six for a full review and to compare with the iPad Pro and today, I thought I would see how it stacks up to it in regard to school oriented tasks here, but before we continue, I'd really appreciate it. If you leave a like on this video comment, if you have any questions, suggestions or opinions as the algorithm likes that and will help push my videos to more people, so without further ado, let me demo some school oriented tasks with both these devices to help you decide which one is right for you all right. So, first up, let's talk file management with both these devices with the iPad Pro we have the files app and with the tab, basics we have the Samsung my files' app. They serve the same purpose. However, they are different in many ways. We do have a sidebar here, so you can navigate to different folders and areas of your files or your device.

But, as you can see here, you got a lot more going on here with the Samsung app here. You can go into your internal storage and go through a bunch of folders, like you would on like a Windows device, whereas with Apple it's a little more lockdown, you know most of the folders are app based, and you can't really go into like system files and whatever you also have the ability to insert a micro SD card, so that is expansion for you there with the iPad Pro. As we know, the stores that you get inside is what you get, but yeah both of these apps serve the same purpose. You can access downloads documents, other app folders, you can organize file, and you can browse external storage connected via USB type-c. Next up, let's talk document typing or writing.

I! Don't have keyboard cases for either of these devices. That's just not how I use my tablets, so we're gonna focus more on the virtual keyboard aspect of these devices here. So, let's go into my app of choice: Google Docs here, which I use on a daily basis to plan content and to write stuff down. So let's go into my note, 10 shot list here so, as you can see, they load up very similarly. Obviously you have more of a paper size here with the iPad Pro it's more like a sheet of paper in terms of the aspect ratio, but you still get a nice view here.

Sixteen by nine with the tab, S six, let's go and edit them here and then again you have a more narrow view here, especially with the keyboard words. You have more of a wide aspect here with the iPad Pro. Both typing experiences are nice. You have swiping ability with the Amitabh here, whereas you don't get that by default with this big keyboard. However, if you swipe in then you get that with on the iPad Pro running, iOS 13 in terms of the typing experience, at least in Google, Docs and I would say were than any other apps that are available for both I pet OS and Android.

The experience is going to be the same, however, with the keyboards here I find that the iPad Pro screen accommodates a better typing experience, at least virtually as you have more screen space above the keyboard and just more space for the keyboard in general, the keys are gonna, be a little bigger. So I find myself feeling a little more comfortable typing on this versus this, which has more narrow keys, but you can definitely have a good typing experience here. It's just a little more narrow, as I said so not too much different once again in terms of virtual typing experience. Next up, let's talk note-taking, and this is the primary use I have for my personal iPad Pro here. I bring this to college every day and using the Apple Pencil with good notes.

Five has been an incredibly positive experience and the tab s6 here is a direct competitor to the iPad Pro and is sold with Samsung's S Pen, which attaches to the back as we know here. So, let's talk about this software available, so I use good notes 5. For my personal note-taking, however, the Apple Notes app is pretty decent for some rudimentary note-taking, as well with the tab s6 here. Obviously, you have Samsung notes, so we can open that up here and this can take advantage of the S, Pen and all of its glories. So let's just make a new note here, so I'll write here.

Hello is no uh and, as you can maybe hear you get that kind of cheesy little like pens sound effect, it's kind of fun, I think you also have the ability to draw some like artwork type stuff in here, so you can have different tools and paintbrushes pencils, whatever you want you're kind of similar to what you get with the iPad Pro, so I'll demo here in a minute but yeah the Notes app or at least a Samsung Notes app will do the trick if you're taking some, you know basic notes or if you want to sketch something out, let's just say, and the S Pen in my experience is all right: it's not the most comfortable thing in the world, but it's bigger than the note 10 S Pen, which makes it a lot more comfortable to use, especially for long durations and kind of moving over to the iPad Pro here. Obviously, once again you have the ability to take notes with the pen. You have. The ability to you know, highlight and also sketch with a pencil here. So you kind of get that with pressure sensitivity, I'm, just going to tell you objectively, the Apple Pencil is just more comfortable.

It's round, it's bigger, it's more like an actual pen or pencil. You know, and people were asking me, does your hand cramp when you write with this um, if you're not writing for an insane amount of time. No, it's actually really comfortable. The flatter design of the s-pen here is just not nearly as comfortable I. Do find my hand cramping just a little if I use it this for too long.

So in terms of comfortability I have to give it to the iPad Pro here objectively, and it just makes sense because the Apple Pencil is just a more comfortable shape that will more naturally conform to your hand or your fingers and then in terms of third-party note-taking apps. You do have some common ones like Evernote and Microsoft OneNote. However, I use good notes.5 I was trying to look for an alternative on the Play Store and the best one I could find. Was this app called squid? Maybe there's a better one. So leave me a comment: if there's another one, you think I should check out and demo, but this one's pretty decent I mean you get line paper.

You can use the s-pen, obviously to write notes you can erase and highlight and select just like you can in good notes here. I'm here are some of my notes: I've demoed this in a previous video. So we can go to my critical thinking class here via here. Some of my notes and usually what I do is I zoom in me? Just you know, start taking notes. You know in cursive so and then, of course you have all your little highlighting options here, and you can select text and move it around.

Just like you can with this app here, let's just demo that really, so I can write. You no note underlined, and then we can go to the Select tool and then move it around. You know maybe resize it or whatever change the color change, the know, opacity or the darkness level. Furthermore, you have a custom color. This is actually something I.

Don't think you can do with good notes five. So that's pretty cool, and here we have an app that is available. Cross-Platform Evernote, it's a little different, and I'm actually trying to figure out how to use this, but I mean you can like to have templates right. So you can choose like pre-planned documents for like an event budget or a gift tracker. So you have that you can also handwrite notes as well.

So let's create a new note on both these devices for handwriting, so we can do handwriting, and then we can choose the handwriting option here on iOS or iPad. Oh, it's a little different from my experience, maybe I'm using the app or on let me know, but you know, obviously you can. You know, write some notes in here, and you know jot some stuff down, whereas for the tab s6, it's a pretty similar experience. You know the same tools are available selected. This looks a little different interface wise, but you know you can still write here and that just kind of brings to my attention, while the tab s6 does offer a nice writing experience with an integrated stylus that actually comes with the tablet.

You don't have to buy an extra the 120 Hertz display with the iPad curled the low latency, the comfort ability of the stylus here, which is the Apple Pencil I, don't know, I just think that the writing experience is higher-quality with the iPad Pro and it kind of makes sense, because you're paying more for the stylus too, and of course, once again we have that really high refresh rate display and also the tip of these pens are different. This is more rough. It kind of has more drag. Maybe you like that? Maybe you don't with the Apple Pencil here you can get screen protectors which can give you like the drag quality of like writing on paper, but me personally, I like it really having a very smooth. You know almost gliding experience, you know, and it's plastic on plastic, so you just really do fly across the screen.

That's just my opinion, but in terms of the overall functionality of the apps here, they're, basically, the same, so I got to say at least in this category. In my humble opinion, I do believe the iPad Pro does offer a better handwriting experience. So if you're into taking handwritten notes the apps available and the know, stylus available, it's just more convenient, more comfortable and more smooth. It also has a better attaching mechanism. This is a much better spot in my opinion than having it on the back.

It also clicks better. This is just kind of okay, I guess, while it is a decent design, and I'm happy that Samsung did differentiate itself from Apple I do like the mechanism better with the iPad Pro. Personally, however, you do have the ability to have the pen on the back and have your tab mystic slightly elevated, with no rocking, which is a positive thing. I will say, however, I do like the placement of the Apple Pencil more with the iPad Pro last up. Let's talk about multitasking, and this is where things get interesting, because the tab at 6:00 has something that the iPad Pro does not, and that is a designated like desktop mode, but we're first going to talk about the tablet modes here in just the standard, iPadOS experience here with the iPad Pro with iPadOS, you can open an app, and then you can, you know swipe up with the dock and then drag over another app and boom you're.

Already doing that, you also have the ability to you know toggle, these, you know fanned out apps here by dragging them into the window. So we can, you know, drag I, don't know another instance of Safari here, and then you know dismiss them. Switch in between them. Put them on different sides. Obviously fan them out as I showed you and also resize the full screen apps here.

So we can, you know, make more room for Safari and more room for good notes, or vice versa, with the tab s6, we can, you know, open an app and then also drag in from the side and drag in. You know an app here, and it will pop up as a window. I don't know if I'm not doing this right. So you know correct me if I'm wrong, but we can also make this go full screen and then just like iPadOS. We can resize the windows here, but once again you can have, as we can drag around in its own window, which I really like, especially with the pen here, which allows you to you know, use it kind of like a cursor.

So we can set this down here and I. Can you know, have this hovering around here, bring it in to full screen or dismiss and once again resize so yeah? Both these devices are good if you're taking notes- and you know, referencing some kind of article or doing some research and maybe watching a video at the same time here. But let me demo really quick the Samsung decks mode here, which is something you cannot get once again with the iPad experience. So we're gonna launch into this, and I really like this. I wish one day: Apple will have some kind of macOS issue experience on the iPad, but for now this is what Samsung to offer.

It looks a lot like windows kinda like a hybrid of Windows and Android, but I really like it. You kind of have this Start menu. Looking thing here, you have the app switcher. You have the app drawer and I. Just think this does set up just looks a lot better than the actual OS r1 UI on the tablet.

So you can open up. You know Doc's here and have a window. You can open up the Samsung, no tab. Furthermore, you can open up another note-taking, app and YouTube and have all these you know, windows popping around here. I haven't figured out how to snap them, but you can, you know obviously manually resize them and have more than one app open at the same time here, which is pretty convenient, I think um and once again it's made really easy.

With this fine point of input, that is the S Pen. So I really do enjoy this experience. Maybe you will too, if you're, huge on multitasking, and you'd like to have more of a desktop like experience, you also have the ability, once again, with both these devices to connect a keyboard case and I think the tab s6 definitely benefits from that, although I haven't bought one because once again, I like to use my tablet more like a tablet, I have a laptop for reason, but yeah I really do enjoy the DEX experience with the tab. S6 here I think it takes advantage of the display much better than 1 UI does, and the multitasking experience is actually really nice with this windowed mode here. But once again the iPadOS experience is nothing to scoff at it's actually very, very useful.

It's coming a long way once again with this fan-out mode and the ability to you know just drag apps in and to drag files to and from windows, and it had the split screen mode and with the wider aspect ratio. Once again, you get just more. You know vertical room, at least in landscape mode and more horizontal mode and portrait mode. If you know what I mean so yeah I do like the aspect: ratio for multitasking a little better with the iPad Pro and I, find it to be a little more smooth with iPad one. However, as I've said, the DEX mode with the Tab s 6, and the ability to just have free-floating windows in either the one UI mode or the next mode is just really cool and as a feature I wish iPad had for sure and that all wraps things up here.

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