I don’t think anyone has said that. In business applications, with a keyboard, an M1 iPad perfectly replaces a Windows PC. My architectural studies and work in the local historic community has gone on seamlessly without the old PC. However, I don’t pretend that I speak for all users - and I don’t think you should pretend to, either.
Apple silicon (m1) vs the A12z is evolution not revolution.
Yep, I was talking about the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon (I wasn't talking about the iPad, only about the Mac)
Civ 6, Eve Echoes, Divinity Original Sin 2, Alien Isolation… there are of course tons of other games available which are not exactly triple A, but look absolutely beautiful and are very fun. 🤓
Well, you can get a MacBook Pro with 64GB RAM, can’t you? 🤓
But can it run Final Cut? 😂🤣😎
That - as of this writing - Blender isn’t in the Appstore has nothing to do with wether Apple allows it. There is the little obstacle that it is simply not ported to iPadOS.
Nobody wrote that.
As of July 7, 2022, I have used iPad Pro (2nd generation) daily for more than four years. I don't have any book series and rely on iMac Pro for 'real' computer job. I had thought the iPad Pro would replace most of laptop functions, but it did not. The strength of iPad pro lies in that it actually creates new usages because of its touch-focused user interface.
I believe this statement is in reference to the M2 MBA.
Since when having a display kb/mouse in covid, WFH, times is rare. Like really? XD
I have an external monitor and keyboard / mouse at my workplace, but not at home, where I am running an iMac in the study room. In my bedroom, I use a MBA, but a monitor would take up too much space on my desk.
Exactly. Mac got a quicker cpu. Interferes my iPad use exactly zero.
That is a real part of it though. Scrivener on the iPad is a shell of what it is on the Mac/Windows. Same with Devonthink, Office, etc.,
I'm curious... what was the task you were trying to accomplish on the iPad?
Well, that's because those kind of apps were built from the ground up that doesn't compare to the history of Windows/Mac. Have to put it into perspective since Windows/Mac software have decades of history behind it.
Change the orientation of a single page on a pdf, then print it two sided borderless scaled to fill complete paper. The first part - manipulating the pdf - I could probably have done ok using a third party app, but the printer offered nowhere near the level of fine-grained control I rely on. In no way was this an issue of hardware, nor likely of Apple software, but none-the-less I had to go back to the mac where the task was done in seconds.
But that’s the thing… this task could have probably been completed on the iPad with some additional work on your part. Granted, the task is much easier and perhaps quicker on the Mac.
Agianst my better judgment I’m going to wade into the swamp. Why are “we” better off not having dual boot option. “You” may feel you are better off for it because it doesn’t spoil your pure iPad world, but for those users willing to accept the compromises of poor touch capabilities for having an ultra-modern, ultra-portable MacBook when we need it, why shouldn’t we get that? Why should Abazigal and ericwn determine what me and exoticSpice have to live with? Let ME make that choice, not you (or Apple)...
True… but I’ve never been an advocate of going iPad only. I use a desktop PC whenever it’s needed and use the iPad as my primary device. Now, I understand it might not be for everyone… but I prefer the versatility of the iPad.Right, but that doesn't make it any easier to go iPad only.
I am not sure where you’re getting the idea that I want to determine what you should or should not be able to have in terms of functionality. I’m simply guessI g that their marketing department shot the idea down in no time.
Thanks, I do understand that - it's an Epson, and yes, that is more limited than HP I know, but the printer itself is better (Ecotank). But in general I do change a lot of specific printer settings, and *for my usage* I've never found an app that can handle it. HP may have improved since I last used theirs about 4 years ago. But there's also the point that doing these things requires additional software downloads on the iPad, free or paid, whereas on the Mac it's all built in. I find the same with TextEdit. I use it heavily on the Mac for simple documents, and haven't found a good alternative on the iPad - one (cheap I admit) paid app allows me to edit them but makes it really hard to keep the original documents and edited ones straight because it saves them as new documents. Why Apple couldn't just build in TextEdit I truly have no idea.
The TL;DR is that it would run counter to the very essence of what makes an iPad an iPad, and it would run counter to the very essence of what makes Apple uniquely Apple. The day Apple goes down that road is the day Apple stops becoming a design company and turns into pretty much any other tech company out there.
