No. Vice Versa.
I have to admit I've been wondering lately if I even need a tablet in my life. Probably just buyers remorse as I'm only a week into a new 64GB iPad Air 2 but still...
You know, I've really turned my iPad in quite the productive little machine.
My 15" MacBook stays docked to a large external monitor at home and I take my iPad 3 with a Logitech Ultrathin Smart Cover to school. I use Word (and occasionally OneNote) to take notes during lectures or annotate professor supplied power points as they talk. I use Excel for iOS for some (very light) spreadsheet organization. I'm using PDF expert to read and annotate over 400 pages of PDFs for this terms classes. I've stopped printing PowerPoint slides and notes and simply consolidate them all into one large (50 to 200 page) PDF to study for exams. All my files stay in sync via Dropbox. I use Calendar and various Reminders lists to stay onto of my tasks and I stay on top of my emails throughout the day instead of letting them pile up until I'm home.
When I get home I pick up where I left off on my Mac to finish papers, work on my online class presentations, and work on my thesis (but I read the thesis PDFs and data on the iPad).
Together they make a pretty good team. My Mac is excellent for my heavy lifting tasks and my iPad works perfect as a light on-the-go device. The ability to use a keyboard in a more traditional laptop fashion when taking notes, but detach it into a more "book" like form factor for reading and annotating PDFs is a big help especially since some of my PDFs are rendered as one image so I can't highlight individual text on my Mac, but I can draw or freeform highlight on my iPad.
I have to admit I've been wondering lately if I even need a tablet in my life. Probably just buyers remorse as I'm only a week into a new 64GB iPad Air 2 but still...
Some value being able to read on the toilet, couch, bed, whatever and I can see that. However, sticking with my desktop and being tethered to my desk, I get the tradeoff of a 26" screen.However, when you don't want to be tied to your desk, the iPad has worked great for me as a consumption and browsing device. If I had to create content on the go, or have to take my own machine to work, sure I would prefer a notebook.
On a related note, I can't figure out what some commenters mean by "real work". All work is real work. Preparing discussion notes/lectures, grading student work, managing discussion forums, etc. is the real work of a college professor and, as I've mentioned, I can accomplish all of it on my iPad. I use my iPhone for attendance. I use Dropbox to access files. All of this is real, actual work. None of it requires a desktop or laptop to perform. So, I think that what some folks mean is not accurately stated as "real work" but should instead be referred to as "the kind of work I have to do". So, for the OP, what kind of work do you have to do? If it doesn't require the horsepower, or whatever, of a laptop or desktop, and you are willing to learn a different workflow, and you value mobility, then you can certainly ditch your laptop for an iPad.
Has anyone replaced their laptop with an iPad?
I'm getting closer every day it seems. The trusty ASUS laptop only gets used very sparingly and gaming is one of the the reasons. Just can't live without Age of Empires....
Seriously though, I'm so close to being a full blown tablet user only.
Myself and my brothers work in a family business and opperate solely off of iPad and we love it but we are serious power users. Content creation, collaboration is just excellent and iOS now is super powerful and fast to opperate!
If I may ask, what sort of content creation?
- Adverts - using Pixelmator, Adobe lightroom and pages
- Presentations - using Keynote
- Numours types of Spreadsheets utilising different graphs, pictures etc in Numbers
- Brochures using, PDF Editor, PDF Office, Pixelmator
- Business letters using Pages
- Customer profiles, distributor notes etc - Notability
To name just a few of many!
Please don't mention that...I'm recovering from using a windows and its hard enough to transfer from vista to OS X. I'll tell you what though, vista is a big ol bucket of suck.
I'm the other way around lol. I want a cheap MacBook (MacBook C?) made of plastic and running either a limited OS X or iOSYour comment is very true! I'm an iPad owner and I wish I had the functionality of a SP3! The iPad indeed feels like a toy! So much so that I have been considering giving my iPads to my young children and purchasing a real device for myself such as the SP3! I would rather an Apple tablet with OS X and a usb 3.0 port etc but I feel it's never going to happen as greedy Apple don't want to loose laptop sales, they want people to buy both!
Myself and my brothers work in a family business and opperate solely off of iPad and we love it but we are serious power users. Content creation, collaboration is just excellent and iOS now is super powerful and fast to opperate!