is 256gb enough for ipad

Unless you're storing a bunch of videos on your ipad, 64 should be fine. We were "given" the 256 Gb, and I'm almost done with my first year and have only used 25 so far.

What do you use your iPad for? Trying to understand the use case to see if it's worthwhile for me to get one!

Yeah, I feel like 64GB is a lot. I have 64GB on my phone and I'm nowhere close to using it up, but I just wasn't sure how much space word documents/notetaking apps take up. I don't plan on taking pictures or videos much, at most maybe recording lectures..

I primarily use my ipad when I'm on campus, and my laptop at home.
Anki, test-taking, notes (drawing, ppts, etc.), watching lectures (recorded by school). Notability is a great app for organizing your stuff, and you can use cloud storage to back-up/sync.
You'd save a ton of money just getting a portable hard drive to store your big stuff, and just managing your ipad storage for "on the go" stuff.

Even if you religiously take notes, the file size is very small, and you can back-up old notes after you finish the subject somewhere else.
If I was responsible for buying my own ipad, I would've gotten 64 Gb.

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I'd say no but only because I was a study to music person and BitTorrented a TON of music during pre-clinicals.

I would go for the 256 - between my notability, anki, and different resource vids, I would fill the 64 rather quickly even with a bunch of stuff in the cloud. I also like having a lot of my resources offline, but thats mostly because I do a lot of traveling across the state (a bunch of class carpools from east to westside of the state fairly regularly for family and such) and not being limited to only studying while connected to wifi is important to me, so my VLC is pretty full

I feel like I'm the only person on SDN who hasn't quite figured out how to really use my iPad pro lol. It felt like a total waste of money to me.

What are some things people use theirs for other than just powerpoint note taking? I take no notes lol

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I mostly have mine up as a second screen/use it for references/source material etc. I'll have my laptop open lets say on a lecture, with notability with lectures/first aid open, so I can have both things up at the same time. I also do any readings (especially things like when I'm working on my research project and reading a ton of pdf research article abstracts) on it, and annotate the slides for pathoma/B.B./etc while I watch the video on my laptop.

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I mostly have mine up as a second screen/use it for references/source material etc. I'll have my laptop open lets say on a lecture, with notability with lectures/first aid open, so I can have both things up at the same time. I also do any readings (especially things like when I'm working on my research project and reading a ton of pdf research article abstracts) on it, and annotate the slides for pathoma/B.B./etc while I watch the video on my laptop.

Solid recommendation. Tried it today and worked really well. Thank you

Does anyone have opinions on screen size? I like that the 12.5" has about the same dimensions as a legal pad (8.7x12"), since that's what I'm used to taking handwritten notes on. But otherwise it seems excessively large for carrying around during clinical rotations and such, and the 10.5" is significantly cheaper.

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If you're going to go with an Apple product, you can also pay $0.99/month for increased iCloud storage (50 GB). If ~100 GB of storage between local and cloud storage isn't enough, I'd suggest getting an actual PC or a 2-in-1.

Based on your experience, if I approximatly needed 30 gb for my first year in med school, do you think 128gb will be enough for extra 5 years? Really need an answer asap

Yup. If you need more storage, you can get 50 gb of cloud storage for like $2/mth.