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Using an iPad as a sidecar tablet

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Using an iPad as a sidecar tablet

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- All right, now this one's just for Macintosh users and in a very select group of those. You'll need a recent model Mac as well as the compatible iPad in which case you can turn your iPad into a sidecar, meaning that you can actually control your Mac from the iPad. And assuming that you have an Apple pencil turn your iPad into a pressure sensitive drawing tablet where you're actually painting directly on the screen the way you would with a Wacom Cintiq or a Surface Book. And so just to give you an idea I'll go to the Apple menu and choose about this Mac. And you can see that this is a 2019 Mac book pro and more importantly, it's outfitted with Mac Os Catalina. So 10.15 or later, I would imagine. And so if you're curious whether your computer is supported I'll just go ahead and bring up this list right here. Note that the earliest Mac is late 2015 and then we've got these other devices. And in my case, by the way, I'm using…

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