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Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Post by skydhash »

recursive wrote: post #419
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #321

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Yeah, Microsoft Surface got this right. Having a touch screen on a laptop is great. I don’t do any coding on my iPad, but I got a knockoff Magic Keyboard and it’s pretty great. The real thing isn’t worth it, since it puts you into laptop price category, and you’re better off buying a low end laptop.

It seems a lot easier to put a touch screen on a laptop. Mine has one, and it's a totally normal laptop.

My work laptop (Dell XPS) has one and I've never used it. It runs Ubuntu and everything is much faster with the mouse (external) than touching the screen. I'm on my MBA, and I've never felt the urge to touch the screen for anything.

And even with the iPad, there is always this friction when context switching from keyboard to pencil. I either use it in tablet mode (touch and pencil) or writing mode (and I always want some pointing device then).

If only I could find a graphic tablet similar to the apple trackpad!

Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Post by scarface_74 »

smoldesu wrote: post #469
scarface_74 wrote: post #461

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What does that have to do with running a modern web browser on a device with 256MB RAM and a single core 500Mhz processor?

Nothing. Linux isn't a web browser. It will still work just fine with your modern web browsers though, as a server.

So now I’m going to put an open source operating system on my first gen 256MB RAM iPad to run a web server and that’s the same functionality I had in 2010 when I was using it to browse the then modern web?

Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Post by scarface_74 »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #459
scarface_74 wrote: post #406

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You did. > x86, a 2019 model (and I had this behavior from the start). > Lol. My MacBook Pro loses battery even when plugged and is constantly at 100% fan speed no matter what it is doing (or not doing).

They have i5's and i7's. I'm not even sure they have i9's actually...

They very much came with i9 options

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP809?locale=en_US

Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Post by DennisAleynikov »

speedgoose wrote: post #304
wiseowise wrote: post #188

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Define fair price first.

Between $500 and $3000 perhaps, like most laptops.

my main computer is a Lenovo Duet 5 tablet/laptop hybrid. It gets more than 24 hours of battery life and is completely silent, runs cold and has an excellent OLED screen. I honestly don't know what more I could ask for.

its $500 and includes the kickstand and keyboard

I did mention in my previous comment that the m1/m2 are still faster than other arm64 devices but for the web development tasks that I'm doing a chromebook is better suited anyways due to the less locked down environment and the ability to run full linux apps.

macos is okay for development but I'm not targeting iOS so its benefits are wasted on me. (I still got an m2 Pro mac mini with 32gb of ram to play with machine learning but its turned out to be too slow to compete with even a rtx3060)

Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Post by smoldesu »

scarface_74 wrote: post #472
smoldesu wrote: post #469

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Nothing. Linux isn't a web browser. It will still work just fine with your modern web browsers though, as a server.

So now I’m going to put an open source operating system on my first gen 256MB RAM iPad to run a web server and that’s the same functionality I had in 2010 when I was using it to browse the then modern web?

You could arrange it like that, sure. Webkit ships Linux builds, there are DEs that will give you a miserable but usable experience on those specs. If you really want to condemn yourself to a fate Apple doesn't support, there's no technical reason you couldn't.

Replacing the same functionality was never an inherent part of the deal though. There will never be Find My Linux or the Linux Store. The overall idea is that we put older hardware to use instead of recycling it for marginal returns on scrap. It's why they put "Reuse" before "Recycle" in the EPA maxim.

Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Post by tapvt »

I’m a solo dev for a medium-sized (but safety-critical) enterprise. So, I’m always “on call.” My 10th-gen iPad with a keyboard, alongside the Amazon Workspace app is a game-changer. I no longer have to lug my laptop everywhere.

Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Post by duped »

agnosticmantis wrote: post #79
sublinear wrote: post #57

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Or, just get any laptop really. There's nothing special about a Mac unless you need to do native development for Apple devices, and I'd suggest a Mac Mini for that.

I haven’t used a Linux laptop in a while. Is there any that’s competitive to MBP M2 in terms of processing power and battery life? I’ve been working on an MBP M1 for ~1 years now and I’ve yet to hear the fan working or feel the heat (to be fair, it’s a work laptop and most development happens in the cloud). If only for this reason I find it hard to buy anything other than MBPs for work, unfortunately.

Processing power: plenty. Battery life: not really but who cares? Just plug in. The real question is why you would want a $2,000 laptop to run as a terminal emulator.

Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

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Post by scarface_74 »

smoldesu wrote: post #476
scarface_74 wrote: post #472

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So now I’m going to put an open source operating system on my first gen 256MB RAM iPad to run a web server and that’s the same functionality I had in 2010 when I was using it to browse the then modern web?

You could arrange it like that, sure. Webkit ships Linux builds, there are DEs that will give you a miserable but usable experience on those specs. If you really want to condemn yourself to a fate Apple doesn't support, there's no technical reason you couldn't. Replacing the same functionality was never an inherent part of the deal though. There will never be Find My Linux or the Linux Store . The overall idea is tha…

So your alternative to mean old Apple not allowing you to run Linux is to have a shitty experience running Linux on hardware that wouldn’t meet the needs of a modern consumer ?
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