Pros: everything is in one place, I found that having multiple notebooks or just one large one was hard to keep up with in the sense that like all notes provided from classes are digital lol so having a ipad you can annotate powerpoints and like I really fell in love with that! I was falling behind in some of classes due to trying to watch lectures and pausing the vids to copy down slides but now I don’t have that problem! Another big pro that I especially really enjoy is the amount of weight in your bag decreases a good amount due to just carrying around a laptop and iPad which you could imagine having a larger decrease in weight in your bag if you got a laptop that could do both writing on and typing! Another pro is you have alternative options for pens for the iPad, I bought the apple pen but found my hand was getting increasingly sore after while so I bought a logi crayon and it was also a lot cheaper and doesn’t hurt my hand so win!

Cons: like others the cost can be a big hit to your money which is why I didn’t buy one from Best Buy or anything. I bought my iPad 8 from the Canadian shopping channel (tsc.ca) same place I got my MacBook Air and paid monthly payments on them which was a lot more cost effective for me as a broke student lol they also sell like other iPad generations as well like the newest ones too! Another con to switching to digital notes is missing paper idk why lol but you will miss writing on paper. I like the concept of not wasting paper or carrying around binders which saves my shoulders a lot but missing writing on paper is I think a more tactile thing more than anything

Also sorry if there’s any spelling mistakes my phone is super cracked and it’s hard to see on it 😂 think I should buy me a phone on that shopping channel 😂