Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
Every time any of us packs a bag, we are making some very specific tech-focused decisions. It starts with what devices we need (or can live without) and cascades into charging bricks and cords and …
Good piece here from Jason Snell, and I have to say, I get exactly where he's coming from.
I tried to do the iPad-only thing, and was evangelical about it for a good year or so, but in the end got tired of having to figure out workarounds when iPadOS got in the way, trying to do things I knew a Mac could do without complaint. iPads are cool and all, but ultimately they're not (to me) an essential device.
Which left me thinking about whether or not I could justify even the price of the cheapest model. And I can't. Not any more.
Mostly for me it comes down to the gulf between what I see an iPad being capable of, and what Apple envision it to be. To my mind, if it has the same processor as a MacBook Air, then it should be able to run macOS as well as a MacBook Air does. But Apple is more concerned about product lines eating into each other's profits than it is about making a great device that can do anything.
At a stretch, I might consider an iPad mini to use for browsing the web, reading articles and such, but despite how hard I railed against people claiming that iPad was only a device for media consumption, I kinda agree with them now.
I mostly use my iPad for GarageBand and for Adobe Fresco. But I couldn't use it for my day job, I need to remote into several machines at once. My iPad will be a second screen for the foreseeable future, but I'd miss it if I lost it.
It’s one of the reasons why I didn’t upgrade my a14 air to m1.
I would love to be able to have a laptop for some light programming when I travel occasionally. But I don’t NEED a laptop on day to day basis.
I use my iPad every day, it’s light, it got a pen, I can take it anywhere.
MacBook or any other laptop would just sit and collect dust, I have a pc for those needs.