iPad Pro iPad Pro 12.9” + Jump Desktop = Laptop Replacement?

[Apple_Robert]

Okay...but don’t you pay a huge amount in data then, or watch in low quality?

I pay about $24 dollars a month for unlimited data on my iPad. Video is streamed in 1080p.

 

[Digitalguy]

Honest question: why do you remote into another machine to watch videos?

This happened often when my main laptop was a 17in one. I generally started watching a video on it but then would move around the house and take a light device with splashtop to keep watching the video (using wifi headphones plugged into my laptop). At that time I mainly used a surface 2 to do that. Now I generally either use an ipad pro, a macbook air 11 or a surface 3 to do that directly (no remote desktop)
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The thing is, there is a product that does what you want. It's a Surface Pro... just like you said; it fits the bill exactly. It's Windows, but that's not that bad, really. I get the Microsoft Store sucks for apps. Having recently moved to Windows from macOS and iOS I can agree completely. However, this is Windows and if you look around you can find what you need outside the store. There is a lot of software for Windows; much of it sucks but there's enough good stuff to get what you want done.

Surface pro is better only if you want one device. Personally I am a multi-device guy, so that I can have the advantages of the ipad (and there are many) and the advantages of windows for work (and honestly surface is not necessarily the best device for that, it's not the lightest, it's not comfortable on your lap and the latest doesn't even have LTE). If I want to bring a device on the go, if I know I am going to have to work I'll bring a (much lighter, under 1.8 pounds) windows laptop with a proper hinge. If the chances I have to do office work on the go are low, I'll use remote destktop if necessary and only bring my ipad pro with LTE. And if it's a business trip of several days I'll bring the laptop plus an ipad mini LTE.

 

[Conutz]

I pay about $24 dollars a month for unlimited data on my iPad. Video is streamed in 1080p.

Wow, that’s really cheap - must cheaper than what’s available here. Makes sense then.

This happened often when my main laptop was a 17in one. I generally started watching a video on it but then would move around the house and take a light device with splashtop to keep watching the video (using wifi headphones plugged into my laptop). At that time I mainly used a surface 2 to do that. Now I generally either use an ipad pro, a macbook air 11 or a surface 3 to do that directly (no remote desktop)

Okay, that also makes sense being on WiFi, and having a not-so-portable 17"!