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0 pointscmelbye5y ago0 comments

Is this better in any way than just using a Mac? iPad is just as powerful as a MacBook Air, and costs about the same. But with the keyboard/trackpad case, it's thicker, heavier, and less ergonomic. And the workflow becomes useless when, for example, you don't have internet connection.

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monkin5y ago

It’s different… and for me in many ways better.

I have 12.9 Pro model from 2020 with only folio case and pen. I own an external keyboard but only use it at home. I also have SIM, so more or less I have always a decent internet connection no matter where I am. Feat that is impossible with MBP without hotspot from iPhone. ;-)

Yet, the whole magic for me is in applications, having native app for Netflix, HBO, Reddit (Apollo) is a game changer for someone who used only Safari, Figma nad iTerm2 in full screen on a Mac, and rest was just browser based stuff. I could lie down and read some news, respond to tweets, scroll through Reddit, code in Blink and design using pen and Figurative at the same time watching Netflix without having a MBP on my laps baking my balls. ;-)

And, yes, external keyboard isn’t as bad as most people tell.

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