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2020

2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali calls Drafts a really great tool for quick capture: whenever he has a thought he can open it on his iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac and start writing straight away. — 00:00:24
2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali reads little in the Kindle app on his iPad, but to take notes on a nonfiction book he opens it in Kindle in split screen with Drafts, Ulysses or Bear. — 00:11:32
2020-03-26 · Unboxing the New 2020 iPad Pro · 11 & 12.9 Inch Versions — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked whether note-taking apps work as well on a simple Android tablet, the channel says it depends how simple, and that the iPad is generally considered the gold standard of tablets. — creator comment
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali does not think Apple is trying to get people to upgrade their iPad every year. — creator comment
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked about artists and graphic designers who use the iPad for illustration, the channel says the 2020 iPad Pro is overkill for them too. — creator comment
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali: The 2020 iPad Pro has a square camera hump on the back like the iPhone 11 Pro's, and iPads come with a 12-megapixel camera. — 00:03:14
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali does not care about the iPad's camera at all: he cannot remember last using it, though he uses his iPad Pro for hours every day. — 00:03:43
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali: The 2020 iPad Pro's new LiDAR camera detects 3D space, helping the iPad sense depth and slightly improving augmented reality. — 00:04:12
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali sees little need for a studio-quality microphone in an iPad: for video calls on his iPad he has always used his AirPods' built-in microphone. — 00:05:15
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali thinks trackpad use on the iPad will become more interesting in May, when the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro, with a built-in trackpad, is released. (hedged) — 00:06:06
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali: Trackpad support comes with iPadOS 13.4 and is not exclusive to the 2020 iPad Pro: basically every iPad gets it. — 00:06:47
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali calls trackpad support one of the minor additions to iPadOS 13.4 rather than an upgrade to the 2020 iPad Pros. — 00:07:15
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — recommendation: Ali: A genuine professional who does video editing, photo editing or music production on an iPad and needs every ounce of processing power should get the iPad Pro, Ali says. — 00:07:15
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali: As a wannabe tech YouTuber with about half his channel's tech content about iPads, Ali says he has every reason to upgrade to the latest iPad Pro, but is not doing so. — 00:08:56
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali's 2019 video "Which iPad should you buy", analysing the budget iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air and iPad Pro, is still as relevant, he says, because basically nothing has changed between the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pro. — 00:10:05
2020-03-28 · iPad Pro 2020 Review - Overkill — Ali's video "Which iPad should you buy" recently passed a million views. — 00:10:05
2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — recommendation: Ali Abdaal (channel): To get handwritten notes from an iPad into Notion, the channel's answer is to take a screenshot and paste it in. — creator comment
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — recommendation: Ali Abdaal (channel): To a viewer starting interior design who must learn CAD software and asks about an 11-inch iPad Pro, the channel says CAD sounds like it needs a proper computer, not an iPad. — creator comment
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — Ali: An iPad can sort of replace a laptop, Ali says, but at a significant cost of efficiency: everything a MacBook Air does can be done on an iPad Pro, it just takes a little longer. — 00:00:29
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — Ali: Spending every waking hour at a computer juggling a hundred things, Ali finds it completely unfeasible that everything takes a little longer on an iPad: he needs to optimise for efficiency. — 00:00:29
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — recommendation: Ali: For people with very basic computing needs, like his housemate Molly Hunt, who watches Netflix and only occasionally types a Word document or makes a PowerPoint, Ali says the laptop's efficiency saving does not matter: get an iPad. — 00:00:58
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — recommendation: Ali: Someone whose needs are basic enough to use an iPad as a laptop could easily get by with the budget iPad or the iPad Air, both much cheaper than the iPad Pro, Ali says. — 00:02:09
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — Ali prices the budget iPad at $329 for 32 GB, too little storage, or $429 for 128 GB; with the $100 Apple Pencil and the $160 Smart Keyboard it costs $689, about half a MacBook Air. — 00:04:52
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — Ali prices the iPad Air with 256 GB at $650; with the Apple Pencil and the Smart Keyboard it costs $910, about 30% more than the budget iPad. — 00:05:15
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — recommendation: Ali: The iPad Air is certainly not 30% better than the budget iPad, Ali says, but it is probably the one he would recommend. (hedged) — 00:05:15
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — Ali: Given what an iPad can do compared with a laptop, Ali thinks the cost of an iPad Pro is unjustifiable for most people. — 00:06:36
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — recommendation: Ali: For people who care less about productivity and efficiency than he does and are on a budget, as he imagines most students are, Ali advises the budget iPad or the iPad Air, according to what they can afford. — 00:07:05
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — Ali: Most people should not really be choosing between the iPad Pro and the MacBook Air, Ali says; someone on a budget who wants to join the Apple ecosystem should consider the budget iPad, which could probably replace their laptop. (hedged) — 00:07:34
2020-04-20 · HEAD TO HEAD - iPad Pro vs MacBook Air (2020) — Ali calls $689 a very reasonable price for a budget iPad that will easily last through student days; another $230 buys the iPad Air, which should last a little longer. — 00:07:58
2020-04-23 · This is Incredible - iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Impressions — recommendation: Ali: Asked whether the iPad can do research work once possible only on a full computer, such as desktop websites and citations, Ali says it can but with difficulty, and he would not recommend it. — creator comment
2020-04-23 · This is Incredible - iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Impressions — Ali: The Magic Keyboard is backlit; its brightness is changed in the iPad's keyboard settings, but Ali says it adjusts itself from the iPad's ambient light sensors. (hedged) — 00:02:12
2020-04-23 · This is Incredible - iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Impressions — Ali: The Magic Keyboard's trackpad is as good as a MacBook's, Ali says, though much smaller and with a physical click, and he expects it to significantly increase his productivity on the iPad, especially for selecting text. — 00:02:56
2020-04-23 · This is Incredible - iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Impressions — Ali calls Notability his favourite note-taking app for the iPad. — 00:04:39
2020-04-23 · This is Incredible - iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Impressions — Ali: Citing weighings by people online, Ali says the Magic Keyboard case alone weighs about 700 grams, more than the iPad itself. (hedged) — 00:06:25
2020-05-15 · Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2 — Ali thinks the Surface Go 2 has a 1920 by 1080 resolution on a 10.5-inch screen, similar to the budget iPad. (hedged) — 00:05:44
2020-05-15 · Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2 — Ali: Writing with the Surface Pen in OneNote is not as nice for Ali as the iPad with the Apple Pencil: the stylus is treated like a cursor. — 00:08:46
2020-05-15 · Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2 — Ali dislikes OneNote and GoodNotes for handwriting because they slightly adjust strokes to look smoother, and loves Notability on the iPad because it does not change what he writes. — 00:09:10
2020-05-15 · Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2 — Ali: Scrolling on the Surface Go 2 has a slight input lag, Ali says, while a Mac's Magic Trackpad and the iPad's 120 hertz screen make you feel in control with basically no lag. — 00:10:21
2020-05-15 · Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2 — Ali: Each night in bed Ali writes down the most story-worthy moment of his day, sometimes on his iPad; for the next couple of weeks he will do it on the Surface Go 2. — 00:10:53
2020-05-15 · Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2 — Ali thinks the Surface Go 2's base price is $399, about the same as the budget iPad, and like the iPad it comes without a keyboard, pen or case. (hedged) — 00:11:22
2020-05-15 · Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2 — Ali: The budget iPad is much faster than the Surface Go 2, Ali says: Apple devices are far better optimised for speed, and against the charge of overpaying for specs he says specs don't matter, the user experience does. — 00:11:52
2020-05-15 · Apple Fanboy Reacts to Microsoft Surface Go 2 — recommendation: Ali: For now Ali recommends the iPad rather than the Microsoft Surface Go 2, though he may change his mind in two weeks. (hedged) — 00:12:26
2020-07-17 · Day in the Life as a Doctor (Gynaecology) — Ali runs weekly physiology supervisions for first-year medical students; on a quiet day at work he reads through the lecture notes on his iPad over a coffee. — 00:08:36
2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali took down a video on taking notes on his iPad at work after someone complained to his hospital that his flippant comments were blasé about data security. — 00:07:11
2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali: In the Kindle app on any device, including iOS, the iPad and Android, you can select a passage and highlight it, in different colours. — 00:01:14
2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali: In the last 18 months or so, no one who meets Ali has said they bought an iPad on his recommendation; instead people tell him they started using Notion because of him and it changed their life. — 00:10:44
2020-09-21 · Code with Me - My New Website Design — recommendation: Ali: Asked whether to buy a MacBook or an iPad, Ali answers: buy a MacBook; you don't need an iPad. — 02:07:33
2020-10-14 · Revamping My Living Room - Day In The Life — Ali: On his iPad Ali edits the structure of a Book Club episode on Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle Is the Way. — 00:00:58
2020-10-14 · Revamping My Living Room - Day In The Life — recommendation: Ali's preferred way of taking notes from books is Notion on one side of the iPad screen and the Kindle app open on the other. — 00:00:58
2020-11-11 · A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands — Ali starts the day on the hotel balcony with an espresso and his iPad, doing his morning dump, planning his day and scrolling through Twitter. — 00:00:00
2020-11-18 · Perfection - M1 MacBook Air (2020) Review — Ali says the M1 chip is similar to the processors in iPhones and iPads: very fast and very well optimised, because Apple now makes the software, the hardware and the processor, so the laptop turns on as soon as it is opened. — 00:00:58
2020-11-18 · Perfection - M1 MacBook Air (2020) Review — Ali says the M1 MacBook Air still has an annoyingly bad 720p FaceTime camera, but the M1's neural engine now improves the image on the fly, as on iPhones and iPads, so video calls look slightly nicer. — 00:13:03
2020-11-20 · My New Daily Driver - M1 Macbook Pro (2020) Review — Ali can now carry his 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil in addition to the MacBook Pro, because some things the iPad is good for, but a lot of things a MacBook is good for. — 00:01:49
2020-11-20 · My New Daily Driver - M1 Macbook Pro (2020) Review — Ali still does not think an iPad, even a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, can feasibly replace what a laptop does for him. — 00:02:34
2020-11-20 · My New Daily Driver - M1 Macbook Pro (2020) Review — announcement: Ali says he will make a proper video exploring in depth whether an iPad can replace a laptop for him. — 00:02:34
2020-11-20 · My New Daily Driver - M1 Macbook Pro (2020) Review — Ali: Apple has switched its Macs away from Intel chips to chips of its own design, as it has done from the start with the iPhone and the iPad, which is why they feel so fast, Ali explains. — 00:03:32
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — recommendation: Ali's upfront conclusion on the 2020 iPad Air: anyone in the market for an iPad should get it, while a student on a really tight budget would be completely happy with the budget iPad. — 00:00:00
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: On Ali's scales the 2020 iPad Air weighs 463 grams and 1,068 grams with the Magic Keyboard, so the keyboard is heavier than the iPad itself. — 00:01:46
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: The 2020 iPad Air has only one rear camera, which Ali puts down to Apple realising that no one seriously cares about the cameras on an iPad. (overstated) — 00:02:30
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: Having graduated from medical school, Ali no longer does a lot of handwriting on the iPad. — 00:05:49
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — recommendation: Ali: If you already have an iPad, Ali would not upgrade to the iPad Air or iPad Pro just for speed unless you have actively noticed it is too slow for what you do. — 00:09:35
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: The vast majority of people will not notice a performance difference between the 2020 iPad Air and the more expensive iPad Pro, Ali says, unless they push the iPad to its peak for hours every day. — 00:10:05
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: The 11-inch keyboard feels more cramped and he hits the trackpad more often, so if he could have any iPad Ali would still choose the bigger 12.9-inch size, easier to type and multitask on. — 00:11:24
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: People use iPads for a mix of things, Ali says: consuming, creating, connecting and coordinating, the four Cs, with celebrating as a possible fifth. — 00:11:54
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: Whether an iPad is worth it depends, Ali says, on whether you already have one and what you do with it: ask how much your own productivity will improve with an iPad versus without one. — 00:12:23
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: Going from no iPad to an iPad is a big jump, Ali says: you can leave your laptop at home or, as he did, switch to a Mac mini, and work in a coffee shop or on a plane. — 00:12:23
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: Having an iPad did unlock new productivity for Ali: he used it a lot for handwritten notes and still uses it for hand-drawn diagrams. — 00:13:02
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — recommendation: Ali: A student completely strapped for cash does not need an iPad at all, Ali says: it will not magically transform the student experience. — 00:13:02
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: Most students lean far too much towards note-taking, making pretty notes in Notability or GoodNotes, which Ali calls a total waste of time; if having no iPad stops that, all the better. — 00:13:32
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — recommendation: Ali: A student really strapped for cash should just get the budget iPad, with the older Apple Pencil and a less nice keyboard but a lot cheaper: it gets you 90% of the way there, Ali says. — 00:14:01
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali rates the iPad Air at about 98% of the value and the iPad Pro at 100%, with significant diminishing returns on what you spend on an iPad. — 00:14:25
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: For any extensive writing, such as an essay, a blog post or a video script, Ali prefers writing on the iPad to sitting at his desk, which feels a bit depressing when all he does is write. — 00:15:53
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: Before lockdown Ali used to take his iPad to coffee shops to get loads of writing done. — 00:15:53
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: Even with the new M1 MacBooks, Ali does not think the iPad has ever been able to fully replace a laptop for someone like him: it can do almost everything, just a little slower, which wastes his time. — 00:16:19
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: Taking a screenshot into notes takes Ali half a second on a Mac with Command-Shift-4 but about 15 seconds longer on the iPad, time that adds up for someone who takes many. — 00:17:22
2020-11-26 · iPad Air Review - Productivity Powerhouse — Ali: The M1 MacBook Pro is becoming Ali's daily laptop and the Mac mini his desk setup, but he will still carry an iPad nearly everywhere. — 00:17:46
2020-12-01 · Tough Choice - M1 Macbook Air vs Macbook Pro — Ali calls the M1 chips a total game changer: Apple is moving its MacBooks from Intel chips to its own M1 chips, similar to those that make iPhones and iPads so fast. — 00:00:29
2020-12-22 · PRODUCTIVE Day in the Life of an Aspiring Gymshark Athlete — Ali wakes at 8.30, lies in bed for another 40 minutes, then at 9.05 journals on his iPad and watches David Laid workout videos at double speed to build his motivation. — 00:00:00

Also named in: My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog

2019

2019-01-31 · How to Study for Exams with Google Sheets — Ali: With spare time before exams, Ali opens his Google sheet on his iPhone, iPad, laptop or any browser. — 00:07:52
2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — recommendation: Ali: For a student with little money, Ali says a budget iPad is no requirement: if you struggle to pay rent or go out with friends, don't buy one; otherwise he would save up, as it can make you a bit more productive. — 00:29:27
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali says that since about 2015 the specs of phones, iPads and similar devices have made no real difference to anyone's life, but for the Apple Watch they still matter. — 00:01:31
2019-03-05 · Apple Watch Series 4 Review — Ali: Email notifications on the Apple Watch let Ali decide whether he needs his phone or iPad, or reply to or archive an email from the watch, so he spends less time checking his phone and triaging email. — 00:02:00
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — recommendation: Ali: For using an iPad purely to consume content such as Netflix, YouTube and web browsing, Ali recommends the iPad mini, and calls the budget iPad pretty solid if you want a bigger screen. — 00:00:58
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — recommendation: Ali: For creation work on an iPad, such as a student using the Apple Pencil, Ali recommends the $489 iPad Air. — 00:00:58
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali places iPad use on a spectrum from consumption (YouTube, Netflix, web browsing, reading) to creation (video and photo editing, music production), with typing, handwritten notes and email in between. — 00:01:27
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: The closer your iPad use is to the creation, pro end of that spectrum, the more money Ali recommends spending on an iPad. — 00:02:14
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — announcement: Ali says a more detailed review of the iPad mini is coming a little later. — 00:02:43
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: For a student taking handwritten notes or typing, Ali says you can get by with an iPad mini, but its screen is too small to do anything meaningful. — 00:02:43
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali tried planning some of his videos on the iPad mini and found it doable but would not want to do it all the time, while the iPad Air is a joy for handwritten notes. — 00:03:19
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali gives the prices of the budget iPad (£319), the iPad mini (399) and the iPad Air (about £479, or $479). — 00:04:29
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: Taking the iPad Pro as 100%, Ali values the budget iPad at about 91%, the iPad mini at about 90–92% and the iPad Air at about 95%. (hedged) — 00:04:29
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali recommends the iPad Air for most people because he thinks the £180 price jump from the budget iPad to the iPad Air is worth it. — 00:05:31
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali names three differences that make the iPad Air worth £180 more than the budget iPad: screen quality, keyboard attachment and power. — 00:06:01
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: The iPad Air has a very nice glass screen, while the budget iPad's screen feels plasticky, a difference Ali calls significant though fine if budget is really an issue. — 00:06:01
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: The budget iPad has a slightly bigger gap between the screen and its internals, so the Apple Pencil lags very slightly, which Ali says you only notice side by side. — 00:06:28
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali calls the iPad Air's Apple Pencil writing identical to the iPad Pro's, feeling like writing directly onto the screen. — 00:06:28
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — recommendation: Ali highly recommends that any student using the Apple Pencil on an iPad get the Paperlike screen protector, which he has used for over a year. — 00:07:16
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali says the screens of the budget iPad and the iPad Air differ only a little, but writing on a Paperlike screen protector and writing on glass differ by a world. — 00:07:46
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: Apple's origami Smart Keyboard attaches to the iPad Air and semi-easily turns it into almost a laptop replacement; Ali likes typing on it. — 00:08:15
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: The budget iPad cannot take Apple's keyboard and needs a third-party Bluetooth case such as Logitech's, which Ali says cost about £70 against about £150 for Apple's. (hedged) — 00:08:50
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — recommendation: Ali: On a real budget, if you need to type on the budget iPad, Ali says a third-party Logitech keyboard case works, though it is heavier and less nice than Apple's. — 00:08:50
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: The iPad Air has the newest processors and higher Geekbench benchmark scores than the budget iPad. — 00:08:50
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali thinks the iPad Air will probably last longer than the budget iPad. (hedged) — 00:09:19
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: The value of delight: the iPad Air does the same things as the budget iPad but is a little nicer and more delightful to use, and that justifies the £180 for Ali. — 00:09:19
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali thinks spending £180 to upgrade from the budget iPad to the iPad Air is worth it, because time he spends on his iPad, as a student and now as a doctor, is inherently productive. — 00:11:37
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: As a student Ali used his iPad for lecture notes, all his textbooks, past paper questions and medical books. — 00:11:37
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: For someone using an iPad for productive, creative work, Ali says the iPad Air's extra delight encourages more use, making it an investment that adds value over time rather than a liability. — 00:12:14
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali says the iPad Pro is a slight increase in quality of life over the iPad Air, but unless you have a lot of money to spare it does not justify the extra £300. — 00:12:53
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: Apple Pencil writing on the iPad Pro and the iPad Air is identical and the screens are nearly so, Ali says; the only real difference is that the Pencil sticks magnetically to the Pro. — 00:12:53
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: For anyone on some kind of budget, Ali calls the iPad Air the sweet spot between price and value. — 00:13:48
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — recommendation: Ali's own reasons for choosing the iPad Pro are not a recommendation he can in good conscience pass on to other students: he asks them to get the iPad Air. — 00:13:48
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali: For pure consumption Ali thinks the iPad mini's one-handed use, for example while commuting, beats all the benefits of a slightly bigger screen. — 00:15:23
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — recommendation: Ali recommends students get Apple's official keyboard for the iPad Air, which makes it more of a laptop replacement, if they can afford the extra £150. — 00:15:55
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — recommendation: Ali: For students or most people on a budget, Ali calls the £319 iPad absolutely incredible, though its screen is plasticky, it is less powerful, harder to add a keyboard to and will last less long. — 00:15:55
2019-04-23 · Which iPad should you buy - Analysis of iPad Pro vs iPad Air vs iPad Mini vs iPad — Ali uses his iPad Pro for over 10 hours every day, but says that without it he would use an iPad Air just as often and probably not notice much difference. (hedged) — 00:16:25
2019-05-27 · My Geriatric Medicine Placement - Junior Doctor Vlog #02 — Ali: On the ward round Ali kept a separate note on his iPad for each patient listing the jobs he had to do. — 00:14:13
2019-05-28 · How to Spin a Pen Around Your Thumb (Tutorial) — Ali: Spinning his Apple Pencil is one of Ali's favourite ways to impress people at work: he takes out his iPad, detaches the pencil and does a few spins. — 00:00:00
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — recommendation: Ali would not recommend the 2019 iPad mini for students. — 00:00:00
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — recommendation: Ali: Instead of the iPad mini, Ali tells students to get the iPad Air if they can afford it, or the budget iPad if budget is an issue. — 00:00:29
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali puts the iPad Air at about £80 more than the iPad mini and the £319 budget iPad at £80 less. — 00:00:29
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali calls the iPad mini great for content consumption but not great for content creation, handwriting or taking notes. — 00:00:58
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali took notes on the iPad mini while planning this video and found it doable in an app like Notability or GoodNotes. — 00:00:58
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali cannot think of many situations where a student needs to take notes holding the iPad mini in one hand and the Apple Pencil in the other; he mostly sat in a lecture hall or at a desk with the iPad on a table. — 00:01:27
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali: A bigger iPad screen gives more room to write neater and bigger, draw more diagrams and scroll less, so Ali finds note-taking on the iPad mini less nice than on even the £319 budget iPad. — 00:01:56
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali: Split screen, such as Notability beside a web browser to drag and drop images, is nice on 9.7-, 10.5- or 11-inch iPads but works a lot less well on the small iPad mini. — 00:02:37
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali: The iPad mini has no Smart Keyboard connector like the iPad Air's, so a keyboard means a Bluetooth attachment, which Ali finds a less nice experience than a built-in one. — 00:02:37
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali: For this video Ali bought the iPad mini, the budget iPad and the iPad Air from the Apple Store two weeks earlier and is returning all three within the two-week window. — 00:03:53
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — recommendation: Ali highly recommends the iPad mini to someone who only consumes content, such as Netflix, YouTube and web browsing; any kind of creator is far better served by the budget iPad or the iPad Air. — 00:04:27
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — Ali seriously considered keeping the iPad mini: it is cute, fits in his bag when travelling instead of the bigger iPad Pro or laptop, and weighs about as much as his iPhone. — 00:04:27
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali uses his iPad every day at work for about 10 hours a day and at home, for almost everything except a few things only a laptop can do. — 00:00:26
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali says iPadOS, an operating system made just for the iPad, brings it closer to being a genuine laptop replacement, and thinks that when it comes out in autumn 2019 the iPad will be able to replace a laptop for a lot of people. — 00:00:26
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — announcement: Ali says he will make a separate video covering iPadOS in more depth. — 00:00:55
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali: The iPadOS features Ali is most excited about: split screen, external drives (which make the iPad Pro legitimate for photo and video editing), an easier way to move the cursor, many more keyboard shortcuts and desktop-class Safari. — 00:00:55
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali: Desktop mode in Safari on the iPad will help Ali edit websites in Ghost and Squarespace, and anyone annoyed that Google Docs cannot be edited on an iPad. — 00:01:24
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali suspects that iPadOS, once out in autumn 2019, will replace his laptop for everything except video editing. (hedged) — 00:01:24
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — announcement: Ali: Apple announced iOS 13 for autumn 2019, selling it mainly on dark mode, which now comes to iOS and iPadOS. — 00:01:54
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali: Sidecar in macOS Catalina lets an iPad act as an external display for a MacBook; Ali, who takes his MacBook everywhere and misses an external display for editing, thinks Apple's own version will be genuinely useful where options like Duet never were great. — 00:03:23
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali: People now come up to Ali in the street to say they bought an iPad because of him. — 00:07:27
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali says the changes Apple announced for the iPad with iPadOS at WWDC 2019 all seem aimed at making the iPad more of a replacement for the MacBook. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali Abdaal (channel): The video continues the WWDC 2019 series with a deeper look at the new iPadOS features coming in autumn 2019. — video description
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali admits the main reason he uses split screen on the iPad is pretending to take notes in a lecture in one window while browsing Reddit in the other. (playful) — 00:00:29
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali: With iPadOS, Ali says, users will finally be able to plug external drives into the iPad. — 00:01:08
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali says he cannot use his iPad for photo or video editing because, being cheap, he bought the 64 GB version, on which he cannot edit raw photos or video at all. — 00:01:08
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali calls importing camera photos straight into Lightroom on iPadOS game changing and thinks it will mean the iPad replaces his laptop for a lot of his photo editing. (hedged) — 00:01:44
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says iPadOS is apparently going to completely revamp text editing on the iPad. (hedged) — 00:01:44
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali finds text editing on the iPad a pain in 2019: moving the cursor around to select text is fiddly. — 00:01:44
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali says the revamped text editing in iPadOS makes the iPad more legitimate for actually writing, without frustration every time. — 00:02:13
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says iPadOS will introduce more keyboard shortcuts in autumn 2019. — 00:02:13
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali says he has never quite switched to the iPad for everything because almost everything he does on an iPad is a bit less efficient than on a MacBook. — 00:02:42
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali hopes the new keyboard shortcuts in iPadOS will bring the iPad closer to a MacBook Pro in efficiency of action and economy of motion. (hedged) — 00:02:42
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says full desktop web browsing is coming to Safari on the iPad with iPadOS. — 00:03:04
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali: Safari on the iPad counts as a mobile browser in 2019, which Ali says mostly makes no difference unless you are editing a website with a tool such as Ghost, WordPress or Squarespace. — 00:03:04
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali uses Ghost for his website in 2019 and cannot edit his posts on the iPad as fully as on a desktop; with iPadOS he expects to make website changes on the fly. — 00:03:04
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says the new Sidecar feature is coming to iPadOS and macOS Catalina in autumn 2019. — 00:03:33
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali has tried earlier ways of using an iPad as a second display for a Mac, such as Duet, but they never worked perfectly and he never stuck with them. — 00:03:33
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali hopes Sidecar will let him set the MacBook and iPad down in a library or coffee shop and feel more of a boss working on two displays. (hedged) — 00:03:33
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali says iPadOS and the new iOS will apparently let two pairs of AirPods connect to one device to watch the same thing. (hedged) — 00:04:12
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali jokes that AirPods sharing is no use to him yet, but perhaps one day, once married, he and his future wife will have date nights watching an iPad on the sofa. (playful, hedged) — 00:04:42
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali says he uses his iPad for almost everything in 2019, except video editing and photo editing. — 00:04:42
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — Ali hopes the iPad will become more of a laptop replacement once iPadOS comes out. (hedged) — 00:05:11
2019-06-05 · My 7 Favourite iPad OS Features - Apple WWDC 2019 — announcement: Ali promises that as soon as iPadOS comes out and he has tinkered with it, he will give his thoughts on how the iPad fits into his life. — 00:05:11
2019-07-05 · AWAY Weekender Bag Review — Ali says reading a book on a Kindle is a ten times better experience than reading on an iPad or another screen. — 00:03:30
2019-07-05 · AWAY Weekender Bag Review — announcement: Ali says he has a video coming out soon on why he reads on a Kindle rather than on an iPad or a phone. — 00:03:30
2019-07-10 · iPad vs Kindle for Reading Books — recommendation: Ali recommends a Kindle rather than an iPad Pro for reading most things, because reading on it looks like reading on paper. — 00:00:00
2019-07-10 · iPad vs Kindle for Reading Books — recommendation: Ali: For reading books cover to cover Ali says you should get a Kindle even if you have an iPad: it looks like real paper, you can read it in bed and it does not strain your eyes. — 00:00:58
2019-07-10 · iPad vs Kindle for Reading Books — Ali says the new Kindles are waterproof and the iPad is not, and that the Kindle is cheap and light enough to carry anywhere while the iPad is not cheap. — 00:00:58
2019-07-10 · iPad vs Kindle for Reading Books — Ali notes the iPad mini can be used one-handed, but says reading on any iPad feels like reading on a screen and on a Kindle like real paper, which completely sells him the Kindle. — 00:01:27
2019-07-10 · iPad vs Kindle for Reading Books — recommendation: Ali says a device for reading has to be the Kindle, while for browsing through and annotating textbooks or PDFs the iPad is better. — 00:01:27
2019-07-10 · iPad vs Kindle for Reading Books — Ali says the Kindle app on the iPad is all right and he uses it if he absolutely has to, but it is not as nice: like reading on a screen rather than on paper. — 00:02:26
2019-07-10 · iPad vs Kindle for Reading Books — recommendation: Ali would still recommend that someone with an iPad but no Kindle buy a Kindle; someone with a Kindle should get an iPad only for reasons other than reading. (hedged) — 00:02:26
2019-08-02 · General Surgery - A Day in the Life - Junior Doctor Vlog — Ali: On the ward round Ali logs into the hospital computer system on his iPad, which saves waiting for a computer on wheels to load. — 00:02:55
2019-08-23 · The Best iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike V2 — announcement: Ali: The makers of the Paperlike iPad screen protector have launched its second version, the Paperlike V2. — 00:00:00
2019-08-23 · The Best iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike V2 — Ali calls the Paperlike the best screen protector for the iPad: it makes drawing with the Apple Pencil feel like drawing on paper. — 00:00:00
2019-08-23 · The Best iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike V2 — Ali: The Paperlike V1 came out about two years ago; Ali has used it ever since and made a video calling it the best iPad screen protector on the market. — 00:00:00
2019-08-23 · The Best iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike V2 — Ali: With the Paperlike V2, Ali says, the iPad display looks almost as vibrant as bare glass; some noise remains but is much reduced compared with the V1. — 00:00:58
2019-08-23 · The Best iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike V2 — recommendation: Ali: For anyone who writes with the Apple Pencil on an iPad or iPad Pro, Ali calls getting the Paperlike pretty much a no-brainer. — 00:00:58
2019-08-23 · The Best iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike V2 — Ali says his iPad has pretty much replaced his laptop for everything except video editing and coding: he does everything on it. — 00:01:58
2019-08-23 · The Best iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike V2 — Ali: Since he spends so much money on his iPad and pretty much his life on it, Ali says a screen protector that makes using it a little nicer, such as the Paperlike, is absolutely worth it. — 00:01:58
2019-09-17 · My Favourite Productivity App for Students - Notion — Ali: Ideally, once he finishes revising neurology, Ali goes through its topic list and, on his iPad, actively recalls everything he knows about each topic, such as strokes. — 00:12:11
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali now thinks that for most people, students or not, an iPad can probably replace a laptop, with caveats: it depends on how much they value efficiency and what work they do. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali weighs whether an iPad can replace a laptop on three points: efficiency, complexity and delight. — 00:00:29
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali: An iPad is inherently less efficient than a laptop at the same tasks: Mac and Windows have system-wide search utilities such as Alfred or the Windows logo key, which are harder to match on an iPad. — 00:01:07
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali now does most of his writing on an iPad, though text work is still more efficient on a MacBook with its trackpad, mouse, drag and drop and copy and paste. — 00:01:36
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — recommendation: Ali: The first thing to weigh before replacing a laptop with an iPad, Ali says, is how much you value the laptop's efficiency saving. — 00:01:36
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali uses keyboard shortcuts for everything, Alfred, automations, workflows and text expanders to save seconds on each interaction, so he cannot really replace his laptop with an iPad. — 00:02:05
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali thinks his housemate Molly's use is the standard one for students, so for them replacing a laptop with an iPad is very reasonable: a few seconds of efficiency make no real difference. — 00:02:35
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali: With her casual needs, Ali says, Molly can very feasibly replace her laptop with an iPad, and he has been actively encouraging her to. — 00:03:18
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali: Complex work such as video editing or coding can be done on an iPad, Ali says, but it takes much more hackery and fighting against the system. — 00:03:47
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — recommendation: Ali: A student who uses a computer like most students, not as a massive computer nerd, can completely replace a laptop with an iPad, which Ali calls a nicer experience overall. — 00:03:47
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali will not fully replace his laptop because of efficiency and complexity, but uses his iPad more hours a day for light work (browsing, writing, planning videos, notes), keeping the laptop for heavy lifting. — 00:04:09
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali carries his 15-inch MacBook Pro, a heavy machine he dislikes carrying, only when going home for a weekend of video editing on his brother's monitor; on holiday he takes just his iPad. — 00:04:39
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali's iPad goes with him everywhere and is worn from use, with paint broken off some keys of its keyboard; it is the device he uses for most of the day. — 00:04:39
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali would love to replace his MacBook completely with his iPad, but because he values efficiency and productivity he knows it is not feasible. — 00:05:08
2019-10-14 · Do students need an iPad or a MacBook? — Ali: The MacBook-versus-iPad debate comes down to how productive you can be and need to be on each device; a student doing basic work can easily do it on an iPad. — 00:05:08

2018

2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: For anyone getting an iPad, Ali recommends the new 2018 iPad rather than the iPad Pro: it is a lot cheaper and does basically the same thing. — 00:07:10
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali has seen studies showing typing notes is less effective than handwriting, so he handwrites on an iPad; he has seen no study comparing handwriting on an iPad with paper. — 00:08:50
2018-05-28 · Study with Me + How I take notes - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #36 — Ali's palliative care topic was the final moments of life: he turned guidance from a hospice website into an eight-point checklist in Notability, his iPad note-taking app. — 00:04:32
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali scans lecture handouts into OneNote when he is typing, or into Notability when he is handwriting on the iPad. — 00:03:18
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali says a student should get an iPad for studying if they can afford it: iPads are quite useful but by no means compulsory. — 00:03:18
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: For the on-screen writing in his video on what happens after medical school, Ali wrote in Notability on the iPad: with a black background, the screen blending mode removes the black so it looks like writing on a transparent surface. — 00:05:30
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — announcement: Ali will film a video about Notability and how to use the iPad to take notes in medical school, at some point when he has a day to himself. — 00:20:46
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: The best technology for medical school depends on budget, Ali says; he uses a MacBook and recently an iPad, which he thinks a pretty great combination. — 00:21:55
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali takes notes on an iPad with the Apple Pencil because he thinks it combines the advantages of handwritten and typed notes and removes the disadvantages of both. — 00:00:36
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali: The iPad's main disadvantage is its price; the budget 2018 iPad supports the Apple Pencil and costs about half as much as the iPad Pro. — 00:02:47
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali says the only differences are that the iPad Pro is slightly more powerful and has a smaller gap between pencil and screen, so writing feels more like paper. — 00:03:16
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — recommendation: Ali: For taking notes at school or university, Ali would probably recommend the 2018 iPad rather than the 2017 iPad Pro; most YouTube videos he has seen say its larger pencil-to-screen gap is noticeable only to digital artists. (hedged) — 00:03:50
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — announcement: Ali plans to borrow a friend's 2018 iPad for a full comparison with his iPad Pro, and will hurry it along if viewers ask for it in the comments. — 00:03:50
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — recommendation: Ali calls Notability the best note-taking app for the iPad if your laptop or desktop is a Mac; it is not available on Windows, so Windows users should use something like OneNote. — 00:04:19
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali finds the iPad really good for making notes in real life, especially in clinical settings such as observing a GP consultation. — 00:09:09
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali: In the workplace an iPad is much better than a phone, Ali says: a phone looks rude, as if you are texting, while writing on an iPad with a pencil looks more professional. — 00:10:44
2018-06-02 · How I take notes on my iPad Pro in medical school - Cambridge University medical student — Ali thinks the iPad is worth having for that alone if it encourages you to take more and better notes about ideas and day-to-day life. — 00:12:50
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: Writing notes on each other's devices, Ali's friend Charlotte could notice no difference between her 2018 iPad and his iPad Pro, and Ali noticed only a very slight difference. — 00:00:29
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: With the 2018 iPad, Ali noticed a very slight extra input lag between the Apple Pencil touching the glass and the words appearing on screen. — 00:02:50
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: One reason for the 2018 iPad's input lag, Ali says, is its gap between the glass and the screen, which the iPad Pro's laminated screen does not have. — 00:03:26
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: The 2018 iPad felt slightly more plasticky to Ali than the iPad Pro because its screen is not fully laminated; he does not think that is a placebo effect. — 00:04:25
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: With graphics-intensive apps, Ali says, the iPad Pro performs better than the 2018 iPad. — 00:04:25
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: Charlotte, who has used her 2018 iPad for months, says she has never felt it slow; Ali noticed a very slight lag on button taps in Notability, such as changing pens and colours. — 00:04:54
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: The base model of the iPad Pro costs £300 or $300 more than the base model of the 2018 iPad. — 00:05:23
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: For a student who just takes notes, browses YouTube and edits documents, Ali sees pretty much no reason to get the iPad Pro unless they have spare cash and want the top of the range. — 00:05:23
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — Ali: To Ali the iPad Pro is an absolute joy to write on while the 2018 iPad is only functional, and that pleasure justifies the extra £2 a week for him personally. — 00:07:28
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — recommendation: Ali: Anyone even slightly unsure between the iPad Pro and the 2018 iPad should go to an Apple store, try both and judge for themselves, Ali says. — 00:09:25
2018-06-09 · iPad Pro vs iPad (2018) comparison for college / university students — recommendation: Ali: For the vast majority of students, who are not trying to make money online with illustration and graphics, Ali highly recommends the 2018 iPad over the iPad Pro. — 00:09:25
2018-06-12 · Study with me + The Magic of Categorisation - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #38 — recommendation: Ali: Working through role-play cases in an OSCE preparation book, Ali writes possible diagnoses roughly on his iPad: the aim is active recall, not notes, and writing makes categorising easier than doing it in his head or out loud. — 00:03:21
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — recommendation: Ali has not tried GoodNotes: when he first got an iPad three years ago his research suggested Notability was more legit, so he went with it and has not looked back. — 00:28:09
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — recommendation: Ali prefers the Kindle to the Kindle app on the iPad: it is easy to read in bed, more like paper and easier on the eyes, while the iPad's strong backlight keeps him from falling asleep even with Night Shift on. — 00:46:02
2018-07-09 (said on 2018-05-12, implied) · Final year exam results - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #39 — Ali: The staff on the delivery unit use iPads for everything, with hardly any paper, which Ali finds awesome. — 00:00:50
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali credits his study-with-me videos and his iPad video with doing really well and bringing in many of his new subscribers. — 00:00:29
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — announcement: Ali wants to tie education in with tech after his iPad note-taking video did well, maybe with videos on the productivity apps he uses on his iPhone, iPad and MacBook; he calls himself a big Apple fanboy. (hedged) — 00:04:00
2018-08-30 · Monthly Favourites #6 - Ali Abdaal — announcement: Ali: Because viewers seemed to like his iPad videos, Ali wants to bring tech-themed videos to his channel more often. — 00:09:40
2018-09-26 · My Productivity Desk Setup — announcement: Ali: Now working as a doctor, Ali makes vlogs about a doctor's life and is also making a few tech videos on the productivity apps he uses and what is on his iPad. — 00:05:31
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: The story of the whole iPad-versus-laptop debate, Ali thinks, is that an iPad can sort of replace a laptop but would be such an annoyance for many tasks that it is probably not worth doing. (hedged) — 00:01:11
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: For a student who only writes a few assignments, takes notes in class and watches YouTube, Netflix or Facebook, Ali says replacing the laptop with an iPad kind of makes sense, though it is not the full story. — 00:02:17
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: For general efficiency the iPad is not a very efficient device, Ali says: its touch navigation is cool but objectively slower than navigating with a keyboard on a MacBook. — 00:02:47
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: Opening a web address on an iPad takes a swipe up to the dock, a tap on Safari, a tap on the address bar and typing; on a MacBook used with Spotlight, Alfred and keyboard navigation, Ali says, almost anything is a little faster. — 00:03:16
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali genuinely tried replacing his MacBook with an iPad for a few days of standard student work and found that it was possible, but he grew frustrated with how slow the whole process was. — 00:03:16
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali wants an action done as soon as he thinks of it, which a fast typing speed with Alfred or Spotlight allows, while on an iPad the software and the touch interface hold him back. — 00:03:45
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: For essays and long assignments with references, finding good reference software and integrating it with a word processor is much more of a pain on the iPad than on a MacBook or a Windows laptop, Ali says. — 00:04:14
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: Printing from an iPad is possible but a pain, since AirPrint printers seldom connect reliably, Ali says; with a laptop you can always plug in the printer's USB cable, so a MacBook makes printing more pleasant. — 00:05:41
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: PowerPoint or Keynote presentations can be made on an iPad, Ali says, but it is much faster on a laptop, whose interface everyone knows, including anyone you hand the file to. — 00:06:09
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: Preparing a teaching session for students in the year below, Ali tried to make the presentation in Keynote on his iPad, gave up after about five minutes of struggling, and went home to do it on his MacBook. — 00:06:38
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — Ali: Google Sheets can be used on an iPad, Ali says, but formulas, conditional formatting and dragging formulae across cells are much faster on his MacBook. — 00:07:07
2018-10-10 · iPad vs Macbook for Students - Can a tablet replace your laptop? — recommendation: Ali: A student really choosing between an iPad and a laptop should definitely go for the laptop, Ali says. — 00:08:10
2018-10-16 · The best iPad Screen Protector - PaperLike Review — recommendation: Ali thinks the Paperlike screen protector is worth it: anyone spending 500 to 1,000 pounds on an iPad or iPad Pro might as well get a decent screen protector rather than a two-pound one. — 00:00:21
2018-10-29 · Study With Me - Scoping the Subject ft. Just Eat — Ali: After looking up the syllabus online, Ali creates an Evernote notebook for each of its 17 subjects and recreates the structure in Notability on the iPad under one obstetrics and gynaecology divider. — 00:01:27
2018-11-19 · iPad Pro 2018 Review - Should you buy it? — Ali: The student-friendly 2018 iPad starts at 300-something pounds; with AppleCare and the Apple Pencil it costs about 450 pounds, a little less with the student discount. — 00:04:34
2018-11-19 · iPad Pro 2018 Review - Should you buy it? — Ali compares 400 pounds for the 2018 iPad with AppleCare and Apple Pencil against 1,100 pounds for the iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, or 1,300 with the keyboard at about 200 more. — 00:04:34
2018-11-19 · iPad Pro 2018 Review - Should you buy it? — Ali: Writing with the Apple Pencil is very slightly nicer on the iPad Pro, thanks to the reduced screen distance and 120 Hz refresh rate, but Ali calls it a minor thing noticed only side by side with the 2018 iPad. — 00:05:24
2018-11-19 · iPad Pro 2018 Review - Should you buy it? — recommendation: Ali: The second question of Ali's flowchart: if you have the 2018 iPad with Apple Pencil, especially as a student, it is very hard to recommend buying the 2018 iPad Pro, which costs more than twice as much. — 00:05:53
2018-11-19 · iPad Pro 2018 Review - Should you buy it? — Ali: The price difference between the 2018 iPad Pro and the 2018 iPad is 600 pounds. — 00:05:53
2018-11-19 · iPad Pro 2018 Review - Should you buy it? — Ali: In his earlier comparison of the 2017 iPad Pro and the 2018 iPad, Ali says, he preferred the Pro by spreading the extra cost over three years, about one pound a week, which he is happy to pay. — 00:07:49
2018-11-19 · iPad Pro 2018 Review - Should you buy it? — Ali: A student probably does not need an iPad, Ali says, but one with Apple Pencil support is quite useful, can make note-taking paperless and could genuinely make you a better student. — 00:10:43