Tablet recommendation

lustyd said:
Not at all, iPads can do all of that stuff, they just need some accessories. Most rugged tablet use is done using cases, and HDMI is pretty rare on tablets for good reason. A usb-c to HDMI is a very cheap accessory.
A good Android may well be a better fit here but iPad can definitely meet those criteria.
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Not the USB one
 
steve yates said:
USB ports, can’tise flashdrives for storage or transfer of data/images etc.
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We do this all the time on my partner’s iPad Air. Yesterday I connected an SSD and imported a video project to Davinci Resolve which was created on Windows, then edited it with keyboard and mouse on the iPad before rendering it.
IPad has changed a lot
 
Slight thread drift, but if I was buying an iPad these days I’d avoid any of them with a lightning connector. Not Apple’s finest moment. Newer stuff has USB-C - much less failure prone in my experience.
 
steve yates said:
It certainly has, but thats very good to hear, off to google lightning to usb adaptors now! every day is a school day :)
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Don't do that! Lightning is USB2 and slow AF so even if it works it'll be a bad experience. USB-C iPads are USB3 and above. With iPhones the Pro is USB3 while standard is still USB2.

I know I may seem pro Apple here, but they have their problems too and a good Android is as good or better than an iPad. My issue with Android is that good ones are challenging to identify and consumers often get caught out for various reasons. Even worse, price is not a good indicator, there are good cheap ones and bad expensive ones. My Android tablet mentioned above was £600 so I feel entitled to be bitter that it was obsolete even when they first released it.
 
fredrussell said:
Slight thread drift, but if I was buying an iPad these days I’d avoid any of them with a lightning connector. Not Apple’s finest moment. Newer stuff has USB-C - much less failure prone in my experience.
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Vastly superior to the micro USB which is what everyone else was using at the time. Lightning was one of the original proposals for USB-C but other members of the standards group wanted a higher power connection which is what eventually came out 5 years later. So Apple went their own way for phone and tablets. USB-C is great provided you get a good make, there are an awful lot of dodgy, low spec cables out there and if you use one in a high power application it may melt.
 
The connector makes very little difference to power. USB is almost universally 3A max with some exceptions for 5A. What changes is Voltage and that doesn't need bigger wire. The wires can be thicker for longer runs to avoid voltage drop.

Some cheap cables melt and catch fire but only because they used thinner cores or iron cores (not kidding!) to reduce cost.

The lightning spec actually supports far less power than USB-C, but in reality this is a spec issue rather than a connector issue. Apple just hasn't upped the max voltage supported because they were phasing it out and didn't need to.
 
lustyd said:
The connector makes very little difference to power. USB is almost universally 3A max with some exceptions for 5A. What changes is Voltage and that doesn't need bigger wire. The wires can be thicker for longer runs to avoid voltage drop.

Some cheap cables melt and catch fire but only because they used thinner cores or iron cores (not kidding!) to reduce cost.

The lightning spec actually supports far less power than USB-C, but in reality this is a spec issue rather than a connector issue. Apple just hasn't upped the max voltage supported because they were phasing it out and didn't need to.
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If you are using power delivery, you need thicker wire. Simple Ohms law and that is the problem. Somebody gets a USB-C cable with a skinny wire and uses it to charge his high power laptop and it will melt.
 
SimonX said:
If you are using power delivery, you need thicker wire. Simple Ohms law and that is the problem. Somebody gets a USB-C cable with a skinny wire and uses it to charge his high power laptop and it will melt.
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No, power delivery uses higher Voltage to deliver more power, the Amps remain the same so the same wires can transfer more Watts.
 
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