The new iPad as a reference monitor?

[Derek Andonian]

If you use your New iPad as a reference monitor, it will get very warm and will lose its battery charge even while plugged in:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1345556

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Rick Lang]

Greg: If you use your New iPad as a reference monitor, it will get very warm and will lose its battery charge even while plugged in.

For still photography it would be fine but for video you may be right according to Consumer Reports. Would be interesting to see though as playing Infinity Blade 2 is likely much more taxing on the processors than displaying video out. We’ll probably see confirmation of that report for the game but I’d like to hear from someone that the battery can’t keep up when just using iPad for video.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Rick Lang]

Bret, the update of Air Display for the new iPad should be available soon. Article implies they’ve solved the problems writing to the higher resolution screen:
https://m.macnn.com/iphone/fullarticles/12/03/21/air.display.to.soon.support.ipad.retina.screen/

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Rick Lang]

Brett Williams:
“I use air sharing too. But just got my first iPad. I don’t use air display, just read about it.”

Posting this from an iPad4. Tried Air Display last night and it worked well on Aperture as a secondary screen. Both my 27″ iMac and my 23″ Apple Cinema Display have different colour viewing the same image. The iPad’s colour is also different but it’s much closer to perfect than my larger displays… Definitely will use the iPad when colour correcting. The iPad can also be used as the viewer in the video applications. Video colour looked good. Not a professional monitor, but better than what I’ve had to judge colour.

Who knows, someday may even work as a control surface in DaVinci Resolve and FCPX (there’s another thread just started on that topic).

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB