iPad for vet med

Aside from drawing anatomy/diagrams, what's the bonus of using an iPad plus a laptop for study? Debating whether it's worth it to buy one.

I cant decide if an iPad is worth the investment when I already have a Mac. how would the two compare and how could I use them together to maximise efficiency and cost-value?

I cant decide if an iPad is worth the investment when I already have a Mac. how would the two compare and how could I use them together to maximise efficiency and cost-value?

I'm in the same situation as you: I have a mac but I've been thinking about getting an ipad for vetmed. The thing is that it's all about personal preferences, because some vet students and uni students in general will swear by their ipad, while others don't use theirs and regret the purchase.
I personally am a handwriter when it comes to notes, so I know that I won't be using my mac to take notes. I just don't like making a ton of typos when I'm listening to lectures 😅. So since I know that I am 100% going to be handwriting my lecture notes and diagrams etc, the choice is between writing on paper and buying a ton of folders to keep my five years worth of content organized or buying an ipad and simulating handwriting on there. So it makes more sense for me to get an ipad so that my notes will be organized and easily accessible from wherever I am.
If that's you also, then it's probably worth it to make the investment now and save the stress and organizational headache later down the line. But if you're someone who is ok with typing notes, then save your money and stick with the laptop! Hope this helps!

It’s not like A levels, you won’t have tons of notes to take as lecture notes are provided by the uni and you may just need to annotate a bit to complete, but often the lecture is almost word for word what’s in the PowerPoint made available to the students ahead of each teaching session.

Vet med, like some other courses, will be what I term 'content-dense'. Lectures might be 20 powerpoint slides long. Or they might be 70. You will have several a week. Covering 70 slides in 1 hour is going some, believe me.
These lectures may include complex images, diagrams, flow charts and all sorts of details. You will not have time to create notes on all of this nor recreate every slide by hand.
You download the lectures ahead of time, put them into OneNote and then annotate the them by hand as you go through the lecture. As someone with the most trash handwriting going (a nurse I am very fond of and who knew me well once described my handwriting as being more dangerous than Harold Shipman) even I managed to make this method work for me. With a tablet like an Ipad and a stylus you can do all the hand-writing you like, you can highlight, scribble, cross out, delete, cut and paste all with a whirl of your pen on an Ipad. The skill some of my colleagues had with Ipads was off the scale. You can create beautiful artworks as well if you want to sketch anatomy although I can't draw to save my life and I'd sooner have real images because your exams will feature these.
People who are facing content dense courses may benefit from reading my 'Going to medical school' thread as I outline a lot of things which may be useful to know ahead of time.
Tablets/touchscreen devices like Ipads and SurfacePro are very expensive. Buy the nicest/largest screened one you can afford but try them out in John Lewis or an Apple store first. Get a stylus, get a keyboard, get a laptop as well if you want, buy a second monitor to plug in at your digs to make study easier. This will all help you get your study process implemented quickly and from day 1.
I too enjoyed writing notes on paper, I love textbooks. I love folders and stationery and fountain pens and posh paper and posh ink, but my handwriting is absolute garbage and there is no way I could make paper notes work in the early years or preclinical med school.
And have a think about using Anki if you aren't already.

About Anki, I looked it up and it says that the ios version is paid but the desktop/android version is free. I have a mac, a Google Pixel phone, and the new ipad, so do you think it would be fine to just use it on my laptop or is the free version different somehow?