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Re: iPad Pro M2

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Post by dkonofalski »

michaelt wrote: post #97
lapcat wrote: post #15

I love how "Desktop-class apps" means extremely basic features available decades ago on desktop: "consistent undo and redo, a redesigned inline find-and-replace experience, a new document menu, customizable toolbars, and the ability to change file extensions, view folder size".

You could actually get a full desktop experience from a tablet back in 2003, with products like the NEC Versa Litepad [1] running Windows XP. With a fully-fledged x86 processor, you could run anything a desktop could run. It was pretty neat, but I can tell you from experience that coding using handwriting recognition isn't a great experience :) [1] https://www.cnet.com/reviews/nec-versa-litepad-tablet-pc-vlp...

All of the Tablet PC's running XP Tablet Edition were terrible. I will die on that hill. I tried probably about 10 different versions and the company I worked for was a reseller for them so I got to play with a lot of them. It was just Windows XP with pen input slapped on and it *sucked*.

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

reustle wrote: post #105

Has there been any recent discussions as to why Apple still hasn't introduced cellular connectivity on their laptops? Is it yet another attempt to get people to convert over to the walled garden of iOS? With every ipadOS iteration, they push it to be closer and closer to a desktop experience (windows, monitor support, keyboard trackpad cover, etc).

Maybe once the apple designed 5g chips are ready. Maybe they’ll be a little more battery friendly. And apple will either have to negotiate something worthwhile with carriers or start their own mobile network to keep the data prices reasonable. None of the current carriers offer data plans suitable for full time laptop use.

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Post by ulfw »

e40 wrote: post #138
agrippanux wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention video calls (Google Meet, Zoom, Teams) kill the battery on an iPad. Google Meet in particular seems to be about 1% of battery a minute.

On the ARM versions? My M2 air uses very little battery for zoom (1+ hr about 10% or less, don't remember).

Your M2 Air is a Macbook, not an iPad

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

lbotos wrote: post #74

Anyone have iPad Pro screen protector recommendations? Looking to get one of these and worried about screens getting "softer glass" and would rather have a sacrificial layer on top.

Best Buy does lifetime warranties on some of the screen protectors they sell. I have them on my phone. They’re not mind blowing but they have changed them for free for me no questions asked before.

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

hartator wrote: post #513

Can this actually replace a MacBook for a backend engineer workflow?

github.dev works fine on an iPad - you could integrate with their new codespaces service to run dev servers for web projects. So it easy available fancy remote terminal. If you’re traveling with just your iPad, this is a nice secure option where you don’t need to have clones of repos locally or any keys saved locally to your device.

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

vbezhenar wrote: post #131

Is it possible to use iPad with Safari and VSCode? I'm thinking about something like GitHub Codespaces. Like development in browser.

Try GitHub.dev on your iPad now. Totally possible. You can save a link to it on your Home Screen. It’s not a full time workspace but a decent backup option if on the go.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

crazygringo wrote: post #568
mort96 wrote: post #564

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Do people ever seriously edit video on the iPad?

Oh my goodness, absolutely. You're not going to edit a feature film on it, but for anything that's just filming a few minutes of different things and editing then together and posting/sending it wherever, it's a godsend. Whether you're a professional actor taping a last-minute audition from your hotel room, a sales manager putting together an instructional video on site, or a high schooler putting together a classroo…

I didn't think the camera was good enough on ipads for decent video, but turn your back for six years and look what happens.

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Post by scarface74 »

hollandheese wrote: post #628
scarface74 wrote: post #510

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You can’t connect a laptop to another laptop and treat it like a drive. Why expect anything different from a phone that’s really a computer?

Yes you can. It's called Target Disk Mode on the Mac.

Yes and you can also easily share files from an iPhone over Wifi on a Mac. That isn’t possible on a Windows PC either.

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Post by senectus1 »

roody15 wrote: post #210

I Work IT in a institution with 290 employees and have had 5 switch to iPad Pro's to "replace" their laptop. I am now 5 for 5 with all asking for their laptop back. iPadOS is nothing more than iPhoneOS renamed and the device is still too heavily crippled for desktop/laptop replacement. In my mini test case scenario I never said a word..simply the employee asked for iPad Pro.. I just handed it to them... waited... the…

ipads (like phones) are appliances... designed for consuming. Much like a microwave or a fridge. they're designed for very specific scenarios. sure you could make it do other things... but it will not be very effective.

Laptops are swiss-army knives. you can create/consume/compute and they're pretty effective at all those things.

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