My friend just said that 64 GB is not enough. I was about to purchase and I am already planning to pay more for Cellular. Now I am worried if he is right. he said he ran out of storage on his iPhone or something
iPad Storage. Is 64 GB Enough?
screensaver on 04/06/2023 - 13:25
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You will likely only run out of storage if you use it to store a lot of photos.
Have you decided which mobile data plan you will be using Pam?
I have decided I am not taking Harvey Normans offer of a $400 giftcard if I take the 24 months $35 30 GB Optus plan or should I? All these decisions
Best to buy outright, and non-cellular. I donb't think the GPS antenna is that great in an ipad.
I hotspot to my Galaxy Fold 3 , and I have used 130gb+ of the '256GB'
I disagree. GPS works great in the iPad
I might just get a starter iPad, 64 GB and no cellular.
Cellular is essential if you ever want to use an iPad for sat nav in your car or just navigation in general. Only cellular iPads have GPS chips in them. Though most people just use their phone, so GPS in iPad is really just a luxury extra/backup.
Ah yes, the iPam..
or not if you don't…..
I also would say that 64 GB is only entry level and would suggest you search for ( refurbished or ex demo models “ as new “
( on ebay , amazon , other sites , etc , get a model with higher GB and still 1 year of warranty ( if purchased at a reputable seller) good luck ☘️
Pencil or no pencil?
Color?
Size?
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Pro/Non Pro?
4G/5G?
6/6E?
M1/M2/A14/A13?
1080P/4K?
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Onedrive is cheaper, if you have office 365. Forget icloud.
Also, GoogleDrive.
It is enough with two caveats.. don't use it to store thousands of photos and/or personal videos (offload to the cloud instead), and don't go expecting to store hundreds of games on it, especially if you tend toward favouring 'console equivalent' games, over simple mobile type games. Although such games are fairly rare on mobile, there are some out there that might take a quarter to half of your available memory in one go: Diablo Immortal, Genshin Impact, XCom Collection, Call of Duty Mobile etc. So if you wanted to play any of those, and intend to keep them on your iPad for some time you should go higher.
My 64Gb iPad (mostly used by my kids) has enough storage for hundreds of photos and some videos taken by the kids, a dozen or so learning apps we have on there, and a dozen or so games, and Netflix/ABC Kids etc apps, with enough storage left over to store a dozen or so videos from those when we are going on a long road trip or camping trip, and may want something to occupy them for an hour or two. So for us it is sufficient and we need no more.
What I also think is unnecessary is the cellar version. With that you need a sim and another data plan which just adds extra expense. Allowing the regular iPad to hotspot to your phone works well and is super simple, and saves needing another cellular account. Put the money to more memory instead if you need to exceed the use cases I outlined.
Depends what you're doing. I have a 256gb iPad but didn't end up using it for photo/video. It's mainly used for browsing, streaming and a few apps. For my use, it's fine.
No.
Yes.
Maybe.
My man why you want a iPad, your cousin jimmy used to study under street lights with no technology, just pen and paper -
Dont be a failure. Get something better than iPadS8+ ?
Same dilemma as OP. What's harder is I never owned an iphone/ipad, i can't imagine how usability 64gb is on ios. (Definitely useless for android). I keep lots of stuff thus I already gone for 256gb phone + 1tb macbook. Now i don't know whether i must also go higher on ipad storage?
I won't store much stuff on it becuz i use it as a complement to my mac only for productivity purpose－read books (google play / kindle), notes app, write docs. No games, no movies, no music. I'm considering the money saved for buying 64gb version can be used towards iCloud storage so it sync betw my mac & ipad. Should i go down this route?
I use an iPad for music, especially with peripherals, it's easier to get support, however I ditched Onsong fo Bandhelper. It works on Windows, MAcOS, and Android, so I don't have to downgrade my phone.
My ipad 5th gen is 128gb and overflowing. I was holding out for a 10th gen finally being USBC, but I could justify paying far extra for a Speed limited USBC, that is the same speed as Lightning/Micro-USB.
128GB worth of draft posts… 🙀
The Harvey Norman sales person actually told me you can only use data sims, but someone said here that is not the case. If so he shoudnt be selling computers
If so he shoudnt be selling computers
Says the person who frequents Harvey Normal stores.
No I dont but I have a $250 gift card that I must use there
If you store lots of stuff on your iPad, you need lots of storage, otherwise you don't. Ie if your iPad is for accessing shopping, social media, browsing, YouTube, email, etc, you don't need much storage.
What sorts of things to you use your IPAD for ? I went through purchasing a new ipad last week and would up with a 256GB unit.
But.. I store offline GIS data and other mapping related stuff on it.. Also offline training courses etc as a lot of places I work and travel around Victoria there is no mobile coverage (Starlink mobile one day)
If I was only using it for browsing or using only online material a 64GB would be acceptable.
WRT to photos etc you can get external storage to use with ipads for that sort of stuff .. A lot cheaper than buying a ipad with more storage.
They should make a model that accepts an sd card.
I doubt it will ever happen. Apple's answer is Icloud!
I would say 64 GB is not enough. A chunk of that is reserved for the OS itself already, and you'll end up adding tons of games, photos, videos, apps etc over time that'll eat it up pretty quickly.
It's not worth hamstringing yourself with very limited space from the start. Especially if you do not want use iCloud storage.