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iPad Pro Macbook or iPad Pro. Hear me out.
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I've enjoyed reading this thread and didn't want to start a new one, but I'm in a fairly similar position to the OP.
I'm using an early 2015 Macbook Pro with 128gb. I also have an iPhone 12 with 128gb.
I'm a teacher and my school gives me a Windows laptop with software I need for my job that I don't want to pay for to use on my own personal computer, so I don't particularly use my MBP for work purposes beyond the odd bit of lesson planning here and there. I'm likely to leave my job in the next year to go on supply and also dabble in stocks, at which point I will be using my own Macbook as a work computer.
Due to COVID, I've got some cash to spare and feel like treating myself given that I'm isolating at the moment.
I can sell my MBP for £330 via MusicMagpie. Amazon are selling the M1 Macbook Airs for £900, meaning I'd be spending £570 on a Mac (vs £670 if I traded in through Apple). However, my MBP for the time being at least is absolutely fine bar the fact that I'm forever postponing updates because I don't have the space for them on the SSD. The Macbook Air at double the storage space solves that problem.
The only taxing thing I use my Mac for nowadays is to play Football Manager, which isn't graphics intensive at all but is processor intensive. However, my Mac is just fine for that purpose, as well as for my light work on it and general browsing and streaming sport.
Therefore, I'm considering keeping my MBP for another year, by which point the M2 Airs will be available. My only concern in doing that is my MBP will depreciate and I could be faced with spending £700 on a new Mac rather than £570 on one now that more than exceeds my needs.
I consider that I have three options:
1. The 'boring' option - keep my MBP this year and get an Air next year for work. Total outlay a minimum of £600.
2. The 'pragmatic laptop' option - sell my MBP and upgrade to an M1 Air now. Total outlay £570. Possibly buy an iPad next summer too for a total outlay of £1100.
3. The 'alternative' option - upgrade to an M1 or M2 Air eventually but buy either a refurbished 2018 iPad Pro or a new iPad Air this summer for around £500.
I owned the original iPad Air which was great. I sold that for £150 two years ago when money was tight as a student teacher. Ever since, I've felt like I've missed out on the portability of it. I used it all the time for watching sport in the kitchen while cooking and streaming TV and movies, while it was really comfortable for browsing too. I definitely couldn't use an iPad as a replacement for a Macbook, even though I don't do anything particularly taxing on my Mac nor plan to do so in the future. For an iPad, I prefer the aesthetic and larger screens of the new Airs and the Pros from 2018 onwards - I'd be underwhelmed to spend £329 on a new 10.2 inch iPad which looks exactly the same as the one I bought in 2013. I'd rather buy new but I've no qualms with getting a 2018 12.9 Pro for the bigger, better screen.
Options 2 and 3 are the most enticing for me at the moment. I've the money to treat myself to a new device but I'm in no urgent need to upgrade my MBP unless it dies. I will definitely need a laptop if it does die in the next year.
I'm using an early 2015 Macbook Pro with 128gb. I also have an iPhone 12 with 128gb.
I'm a teacher and my school gives me a Windows laptop with software I need for my job that I don't want to pay for to use on my own personal computer, so I don't particularly use my MBP for work purposes beyond the odd bit of lesson planning here and there. I'm likely to leave my job in the next year to go on supply and also dabble in stocks, at which point I will be using my own Macbook as a work computer.
Due to COVID, I've got some cash to spare and feel like treating myself given that I'm isolating at the moment.
I can sell my MBP for £330 via MusicMagpie. Amazon are selling the M1 Macbook Airs for £900, meaning I'd be spending £570 on a Mac (vs £670 if I traded in through Apple). However, my MBP for the time being at least is absolutely fine bar the fact that I'm forever postponing updates because I don't have the space for them on the SSD. The Macbook Air at double the storage space solves that problem.
The only taxing thing I use my Mac for nowadays is to play Football Manager, which isn't graphics intensive at all but is processor intensive. However, my Mac is just fine for that purpose, as well as for my light work on it and general browsing and streaming sport.
Therefore, I'm considering keeping my MBP for another year, by which point the M2 Airs will be available. My only concern in doing that is my MBP will depreciate and I could be faced with spending £700 on a new Mac rather than £570 on one now that more than exceeds my needs.
I consider that I have three options:
1. The 'boring' option - keep my MBP this year and get an Air next year for work. Total outlay a minimum of £600.
2. The 'pragmatic laptop' option - sell my MBP and upgrade to an M1 Air now. Total outlay £570. Possibly buy an iPad next summer too for a total outlay of £1100.
3. The 'alternative' option - upgrade to an M1 or M2 Air eventually but buy either a refurbished 2018 iPad Pro or a new iPad Air this summer for around £500.
I owned the original iPad Air which was great. I sold that for £150 two years ago when money was tight as a student teacher. Ever since, I've felt like I've missed out on the portability of it. I used it all the time for watching sport in the kitchen while cooking and streaming TV and movies, while it was really comfortable for browsing too. I definitely couldn't use an iPad as a replacement for a Macbook, even though I don't do anything particularly taxing on my Mac nor plan to do so in the future. For an iPad, I prefer the aesthetic and larger screens of the new Airs and the Pros from 2018 onwards - I'd be underwhelmed to spend £329 on a new 10.2 inch iPad which looks exactly the same as the one I bought in 2013. I'd rather buy new but I've no qualms with getting a 2018 12.9 Pro for the bigger, better screen.
Options 2 and 3 are the most enticing for me at the moment. I've the money to treat myself to a new device but I'm in no urgent need to upgrade my MBP unless it dies. I will definitely need a laptop if it does die in the next year.
I would recommend going with option 3… buying the iPad Air 4th generation in the meantime while you wait to upgrade the MBP.
You could go with a refurbished 2018 12.9 inch iPP, but that bigger model can take some time to get accumulated using it… and considering the activities you will be doing an iPad Air 4th generation would be perfect.
Thanks for the advice.
Would a 2018 256gb 11 iPad Pro refurbished by Apple be better than a new iPad Air? They're exactly the same price. The storage and screen quality upgrade for that seems like a better deal to me, though being two years older than the Air is a concern in terms of long-term support and current performance.
I mind up my mind and bit the bullet on the Macbook Air instead of getting an iPad. £570 is an excellent deal and it'll last me a good 5 or more years. It's almost every bit as fun as an iPad with its portability while being perfect for my workload now and for the future.
Both are proper computers. just depends on what you want to do with it.
My advice is go for 3. Having both a mac and an iPad gives you best of both worlds if it’s within your financial means
Personally I’m an iMac + iPad combo fan But that’s my inherent dislike for laptops speaking.
OP, your story is so similar to mine, and I have flip-flopped on this so many times in my life.
I have a 2019 model 15" MacBook Pro that I have docked on my desk to a keyboard and mouse and two large monitors. This is my workstation for my day job, and my company supplies the computer. I LOVE this setup. Nice big spread out desktop that lets me put anything anywhere I want it and runs absolutely every app I could ever want to use. And since I mostly use it docked with a Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse, I don't even usually have to deal with that terrible keyboard. This setup is pretty static. I always have some form of the above up and running. The only thing that ever really changes is when I get a new notebook from work every 5 years or so.
The flip-flopping happens when I leave my desk and look at my roster of personal devices. I need a personal "large screen" device too, as I prefer to do as little personal business on work gear as possible. So other than my giant Max iPhones, what is that device? For a long time, the obvious choice for me was the iPad Pro. I had my work Mac if I really need a Mac. I had the iPad for everything else, and it would probably get me by with no problem if I didn't have the work Mac anymore, god forbid.
M1 changed that calculus completely in my mind, especially when they also decided to throw it into the newest iPad Pros. Do I want an M1 iPad that has all that Mac-caliber power but is still missing the ability to use workflows that are really easy on the Mac and can't run Mac apps? Or do I want a Mac that can run Mac apps AND iPad apps when I need to fill in the gaps? Do I want to spend a bajillion dollars on accessories to turn the iPad into a laptop and make it thicker, heavier, and harder to carry around or even pick up/open from a flat surface, or do I want a Mac that has all those abilities built in without losing its thin, light profile?
Long story short: The M1 MacBook Air was too good to pass up. It's an amazing computer and continues to blow my mind when it comes to performance, battery life, and heat. So I've recommissioned my old iPad mini back into active duty for when I want to read or something, and the M1 MacBook Air is my trusty companion for most everything else I need a large screen for. The last time I tried this, I regretted it. This time I 100% do not.
I have a 2019 model 15" MacBook Pro that I have docked on my desk to a keyboard and mouse and two large monitors. This is my workstation for my day job, and my company supplies the computer. I LOVE this setup. Nice big spread out desktop that lets me put anything anywhere I want it and runs absolutely every app I could ever want to use. And since I mostly use it docked with a Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse, I don't even usually have to deal with that terrible keyboard. This setup is pretty static. I always have some form of the above up and running. The only thing that ever really changes is when I get a new notebook from work every 5 years or so.
The flip-flopping happens when I leave my desk and look at my roster of personal devices. I need a personal "large screen" device too, as I prefer to do as little personal business on work gear as possible. So other than my giant Max iPhones, what is that device? For a long time, the obvious choice for me was the iPad Pro. I had my work Mac if I really need a Mac. I had the iPad for everything else, and it would probably get me by with no problem if I didn't have the work Mac anymore, god forbid.
M1 changed that calculus completely in my mind, especially when they also decided to throw it into the newest iPad Pros. Do I want an M1 iPad that has all that Mac-caliber power but is still missing the ability to use workflows that are really easy on the Mac and can't run Mac apps? Or do I want a Mac that can run Mac apps AND iPad apps when I need to fill in the gaps? Do I want to spend a bajillion dollars on accessories to turn the iPad into a laptop and make it thicker, heavier, and harder to carry around or even pick up/open from a flat surface, or do I want a Mac that has all those abilities built in without losing its thin, light profile?
Long story short: The M1 MacBook Air was too good to pass up. It's an amazing computer and continues to blow my mind when it comes to performance, battery life, and heat. So I've recommissioned my old iPad mini back into active duty for when I want to read or something, and the M1 MacBook Air is my trusty companion for most everything else I need a large screen for. The last time I tried this, I regretted it. This time I 100% do not.
People say that like its a bad thing. The iPhone is amazing so a bigger one is even better!
I ended up selling the MacBook and kept the 12.9 M1 Pro. Just got the MKB, in white a few days ago, open box from Best Buy. So far? Love it. Works great for what I need it for.
Honestly, I’ll either do one of two things later this year. Get the iPhone 13 Pro Max, or the new iPad Mini and just keep the 12.9” sitting on the desk in the office. But we’ll see
Honestly, I’ll either do one of two things later this year. Get the iPhone 13 Pro Max, or the new iPad Mini and just keep the 12.9” sitting on the desk in the office. But we’ll see
Hey…
What do you mean by MacOS is so flexibile?
I keep hearing people bashing the iPad as not good for multitasking , or not serious enought and so on, BUT I PERSONALY, find it to be MUCH BETTER for multitasking in fact, and just in general so much more modern OS. I just find it better in all ways. More modern, better, more in tune with contemporary life…
theres still a small problem with some pro apps not being avaliable on ipad, but the power is there, and the iPadOS is taking a direction of a very versatile modern OS.
Maybe people who say iPads are not serious, have not updated their opinions latley.. Since, ipads were not serious, 5-6 years ago. But today? I pretty much dont need a computer.
(Other than for work, my work needs a 32 core processor with 64gigs of ram, and watercooling + 3 monitors, a proporer full size keyboard, and an amazing kogitech mouse)
What do you mean by MacOS is so flexibile?
I keep hearing people bashing the iPad as not good for multitasking , or not serious enought and so on, BUT I PERSONALY, find it to be MUCH BETTER for multitasking in fact, and just in general so much more modern OS. I just find it better in all ways. More modern, better, more in tune with contemporary life…
theres still a small problem with some pro apps not being avaliable on ipad, but the power is there, and the iPadOS is taking a direction of a very versatile modern OS.
Maybe people who say iPads are not serious, have not updated their opinions latley.. Since, ipads were not serious, 5-6 years ago. But today? I pretty much dont need a computer.
(Other than for work, my work needs a 32 core processor with 64gigs of ram, and watercooling + 3 monitors, a proporer full size keyboard, and an amazing kogitech mouse)
The iPad Pro, especially the 12.9" model, is a seriously amazing computer. I loved mine. I have actually used all generations of iPad Pro except the new 2021 model as my main computers, and was very happy with them for the most part. Where I finally got fed up was with app support, as you mentioned above, and it's a multi-faceted problem:
1) Most app developers still aren't fully supporting the initial multitasking features of iPadOS, and a lot of these are from before there was even such thing as an iPad Pro. I'm talking features that were introduced with the iPad Air 1 and 2 several years ago! That's not even to mention the newer features like multi window, drag and drop, etc.
2) Apple isn't forcing the hand of any of these iPad developers to support these features, and that has been bad for the progress of the platform. If the hardware and OS can do all these extra whizz-bang multitasking features but only a handful of apps use them effectively, what's the point? Require compatibility, Apple!!!!
3) All of this combined makes for a device that is so full of potential, but ultimately frustrating to use. Real world example: I typically have 12 or 13 apps open on my work Mac during the work day, and probably 8 or 9 personal apps open on my personal Mac at any given time. I can easily go to the Space or monitor where those apps are open, find the app instantly, do what I need to do, and get back to something else. Not so on the iPad. It's impossible to keep track of which apps fully support multitasking and which don't. You can go look for an app in the same place you left it last time you needed it, but it might have closed itself out in that location because you did something somewhere else with it. Is it in some pairing from 8 days ago? Is it still in slideover? Is it open at all? I can come up with examples all day of where this constantly bites me in the butt on iPad.
Once I had a 12.9" model with the Magic Keyboard and REALLY started using an iPad Pro full time instead of a laptop full time, the cracks in the system became 10x more obvious and annoying to me. It was actually not so bad in personal use situations, but for work where I'm going a mile a minute all day, iPadOS is inefficient and wonky in the multitasking department, and those are two things I don't have time for when it comes to multitasking.
I had a 2015 13” MacBook Pro I used for about 2 years before the 10.5” iPad Pro came out, and I moved to just using it.
My 10.5” iPad Pro started having screen issues, so I traded it in and got an M1 MacBook Pro.
I love the MacBook Pro so much. It’s great, but also, there’s nothing I can do on it that I can’t do on my iPad, but the iPad is so much more flexible and portable. Obviously there’s some limitations (no floating windows for example), but that’s not something I really need.
I also enjoy using Affinity Photo and Designer on the iPad way more than the Mac. Touching my photos to edit them just feels so much better than the traditional mouse and keyboard setup. LumaFusion is a little more limited than Resolve but I have my desktop still if there’s a project I need to work on that I can’t do on my iPad.
Overall, I’m a much better customer for the iPad than the Mac. I love using it more than MacOS personally. It obviously not for everyone, but I’m really happy that it’s for me.
My 10.5” iPad Pro started having screen issues, so I traded it in and got an M1 MacBook Pro.
I love the MacBook Pro so much. It’s great, but also, there’s nothing I can do on it that I can’t do on my iPad, but the iPad is so much more flexible and portable. Obviously there’s some limitations (no floating windows for example), but that’s not something I really need.
I also enjoy using Affinity Photo and Designer on the iPad way more than the Mac. Touching my photos to edit them just feels so much better than the traditional mouse and keyboard setup. LumaFusion is a little more limited than Resolve but I have my desktop still if there’s a project I need to work on that I can’t do on my iPad.
Overall, I’m a much better customer for the iPad than the Mac. I love using it more than MacOS personally. It obviously not for everyone, but I’m really happy that it’s for me.
I use my iPad Pro for everything and I have a MacBook. The MacBook feels old and its boring. I use my pen to take notes at work and in life. The MK being almost flat makes typing a joy without cutting into my wrist. Laying in bed or on the couch watching movies or consuming other content is perfect. If I have boring stuff to do. Id rather just use my iMac or work computer.
I agree with you, and in terms of Multitasking, iPadOS 15 is pretty great. Also more visible with that window, so I imagine more devs will adopt it. Although except for a few Banking apps, most apps I use already do.
And you can tell Apple is trying things. I bet the Floating Quicknote is a trial to see how it‘s received and may lead to more apps getting that option
I found out about multiwindow recently using Apple mail. Is that what you are referring to? The way Apple Mail can display different windows have them stacked have them move around and so on. It’s pretty great and yes I only know of Apple mail as an app that has This ability.
it would definitely be good if Apple was forcing developers to somehow update their apps
I have to say iPad is not frustrating to use for me. Actually it’s a joy. Maybe I am just lucky and mostly use apps that are at least somewhat updated. but I do see your point.
you know. I think that’s the magic keyboard and using iPad as a laptop is a really bad idea. It’s just not a laptop and if it was a laptop it would be a pretty lousy one. It has the smallest trackpad of all the Apple laptops and also he has a keyboard that almost has no key shortcuts for applications compared to a normal MacBook laptop. Basically if you want to buy an iPad to use it as a laptop you should know that iPad is the worst laptop that Apple makes. not only is the trackpad one of the worst the cursor is actually a huge circle keyboard is small if you use a 11 inch but also even if it wasn’t small has no keyboard shortcuts and also has no keyboard function keys basically it’s the worst keyboards that Apple makes but also the worst trackpad and just generally iPad has a really small screen compared to let’s say 15 inch MacBook Pro. what I’m saying is if you need a laptop why don’t you go and buy a laptop, As a general principal. My personal opinion is that you have to actually have a need to use your fingers on a touchscreen and if you want the best touchscreen computer in the world you should get an iPad. But if and only if you want the best touch screen computer. I keep comparing iPads with laptops but to be true I’ve never heard of a person comparing ipad to a desktop why not? why not also compare a laptop to a desktop. Because it’s the same type of comparison. It’s like if you were to compare a motorbike to a car. or a car to a truck. I think Steve Jobs actually used this analogy. My point is iPad is an amazing touchscreen device touchscreen computer that can do a lot but don’t expect it to do laptop things just like you don’t expect the laptop to do computer things…. That’s why I think people usually get wrong
I bought a MacBook Pro 2019 13” in March 2020 to replace my 2009 MacBook Pro 13”, for the very reason that if my then iPad or iPhone took a dive and needed to go into DFU mode and nurture back to health. I could do it. I was faced with the same dilemma regarding Mac or iPad, since Apple had introduced in February the new iPad Pro model and the new MacBook Air with 10th Gen i3 processor. I decided on a Mac. Then in 2021 I updated my aging iPad Mini 2 with a new iPad Pro 11”. Glad I had replaced my Mac the year before. I decided to go back to the official iPad OS 14.7 when it released, because the Public Beta of iPad OS 15 was not working well for me and decided to get off the beta. I ended up needing to use a computer with iTunes (Music App) to get into DFU mode and back to iPad OS 14.7.
As far as usability comparison, they are two different animals. I use Procreate and other graphic apps on my iPad. I have some other apps on my Mac that I use for graphics, though I use my Mac for more the organization of my NAS drive and massive music library that is harder to do on my iPad, even though it can connect to my NAS drive just fine. The iPad Has things I can’t do on my Mac, like live face mapping with a number of apps and the Mac has a number of things an iPad really can’t do. It all depends on how much you want to do what you need to do.
As far as usability comparison, they are two different animals. I use Procreate and other graphic apps on my iPad. I have some other apps on my Mac that I use for graphics, though I use my Mac for more the organization of my NAS drive and massive music library that is harder to do on my iPad, even though it can connect to my NAS drive just fine. The iPad Has things I can’t do on my Mac, like live face mapping with a number of apps and the Mac has a number of things an iPad really can’t do. It all depends on how much you want to do what you need to do.
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I’m curious.. What are things u find iPad cant do, or cant do well. You mentioned managing a NAS, I guess, even thou iPad has a nice file management software you might benefit from a bigger screen / more windows open so you can really copy / move stuff to multiple locations at once + I guess iPad currently doesnt have a progress bar for files (coming up in iPadOS 15)
What else?
What do uou find iPad cant do, or cant do well for you?
I am still waiting on a really good graphic converter app, such as Graphic Convertor from Lemke Software, while Graphic Convertor isn’t free, it is shareware and nothing on IOS/iPAD OS comes even close to it. A good music player app that allows me more control over my external DAC/amp. Pine Player on Mac is amazingly configurable. Apple’s Music app is just a gateway tool for Apple Music streaming service and doesn’t play nice with my masssive non-iTunes music library. There are other legal music stores out there and lots of music that you can’t buy on iTunes.
Bring full iMovie and Garageband to iPadOS, then bring FinalCut Pro and Logic to iPad OS. Give us a full version of the Music app such as on the Mac and let us administer our iPhones with it. Apple’s Reminders app is far more customizable with the Mac OS version.
The file management system that Apple has integrated with iOS/iPadOS is very basic, while good, it is too confusing in figuring out what is stored locally on your iPad and what is in your iCloud storage.
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Hi, thanks for your answer.
Can you explain a bit the “graphic converterl part? I don’t see why you would use this graphic converter app whatever that means. I’m a photographer for pretty much my whole life and I’ve never heard of such a thing as a graphic converter I’m sorry. I would like to maybe recommend using lightroom or using affinity photo which is pretty amazing. There’s a couple of other apps that can do pretty nice photo editing if that’s what you need.
As for Apple Music lately I’m not sure if you’re aware of this but lately they’re supporting Lossless. And it only costs five dollars. There’s also Tidal which a lot of it audio files like but I think Apple actually gives you a better deal for the same money and probably a larger library as well. I personally don’t even use any of my FLAC files since I got the 64gigs iPad so I just find it better to stream all my music from Apple Music. I always have a Wi-Fi connection anyway when I’m using the iPad. Also I just streaming lossless quality so it’s pretty much a win. Normally I would have to find a flat file download it converted and so on and it will take space and devices just a worse option really for me and I think for anybody really…
Why do you want to administer your iPhone on an iPad? why do you need to administer your phone at all? I’ve recently in the last two years only once use my phone with iTunes and it’s when I had to restore it.
I don’t see why people are complaining about the file system though… are there two different tabs one is on my iPad and the other is iCloud and you can also use other cloud providers as well such as Google Microsoft nextcloud and so on basically it’s actually very simple. When you open files on the laughter you have a few things to choose and it’s literally one is called cloud the other is called on my iPad. The thing here is I would actually advise people to use the cloud and to keep everything in the cloud. I think a couple of things are really needed in order to use the iPad as intended. One big thing is actually using Apple Music, it’s not that much money really and you get an access to. an insanely huge library of songs and honestly for me it’s completely worth it. The other thing is using iCloud that’s really good because you can keep all your data in the cloud and I personally try to keep his little data on the iPad as I can. That’s great because it syncs with my other computers so I can access anything from anywhere.
I think probably these are two most important things to use the iPad and to kind of get the most out of the experience so I would like to advise you to maybe try it if you’re into that
The only thing I agree with you is bringing fall apps such as iMovie garage band I Final Cut and so on. Bringing for apps to the iPad is definitely a good thing and I hope it’s going to happen more and more and more. But that’s really the only thing I actually find from your list That’s resonates with me. All the other things I actually don’t really see has a problem at all. Really at all. didn’t really understand the thing you wrote about controlling your DAC. from your computer. Can you explain what you meant by that? usually in hi-fi world it is understood did you want to send a Lossless signal meaning maybe use optical connection to the DAC and then I have it do it’s thing .
looking forward to your answer, and also I’m really interested in maybe some other examples. I’m sure there are real examples of where a computer with macOS is better than a computer with an iPadOS but I really haven’t found any substantial ones. Other than maybe piracy not being a thing on an iPad. Which honestly well…..
Can you explain a bit the “graphic converterl part? I don’t see why you would use this graphic converter app whatever that means. I’m a photographer for pretty much my whole life and I’ve never heard of such a thing as a graphic converter I’m sorry. I would like to maybe recommend using lightroom or using affinity photo which is pretty amazing. There’s a couple of other apps that can do pretty nice photo editing if that’s what you need.
As for Apple Music lately I’m not sure if you’re aware of this but lately they’re supporting Lossless. And it only costs five dollars. There’s also Tidal which a lot of it audio files like but I think Apple actually gives you a better deal for the same money and probably a larger library as well. I personally don’t even use any of my FLAC files since I got the 64gigs iPad so I just find it better to stream all my music from Apple Music. I always have a Wi-Fi connection anyway when I’m using the iPad. Also I just streaming lossless quality so it’s pretty much a win. Normally I would have to find a flat file download it converted and so on and it will take space and devices just a worse option really for me and I think for anybody really…
Why do you want to administer your iPhone on an iPad? why do you need to administer your phone at all? I’ve recently in the last two years only once use my phone with iTunes and it’s when I had to restore it.
I don’t see why people are complaining about the file system though… are there two different tabs one is on my iPad and the other is iCloud and you can also use other cloud providers as well such as Google Microsoft nextcloud and so on basically it’s actually very simple. When you open files on the laughter you have a few things to choose and it’s literally one is called cloud the other is called on my iPad. The thing here is I would actually advise people to use the cloud and to keep everything in the cloud. I think a couple of things are really needed in order to use the iPad as intended. One big thing is actually using Apple Music, it’s not that much money really and you get an access to. an insanely huge library of songs and honestly for me it’s completely worth it. The other thing is using iCloud that’s really good because you can keep all your data in the cloud and I personally try to keep his little data on the iPad as I can. That’s great because it syncs with my other computers so I can access anything from anywhere.
I think probably these are two most important things to use the iPad and to kind of get the most out of the experience so I would like to advise you to maybe try it if you’re into that
The only thing I agree with you is bringing fall apps such as iMovie garage band I Final Cut and so on. Bringing for apps to the iPad is definitely a good thing and I hope it’s going to happen more and more and more. But that’s really the only thing I actually find from your list That’s resonates with me. All the other things I actually don’t really see has a problem at all. Really at all. didn’t really understand the thing you wrote about controlling your DAC. from your computer. Can you explain what you meant by that? usually in hi-fi world it is understood did you want to send a Lossless signal meaning maybe use optical connection to the DAC and then I have it do it’s thing .
looking forward to your answer, and also I’m really interested in maybe some other examples. I’m sure there are real examples of where a computer with macOS is better than a computer with an iPadOS but I really haven’t found any substantial ones. Other than maybe piracy not being a thing on an iPad. Which honestly well…..
About 4 years ago I got rid of my laptop and went with a mac mini and a 10.5 ipad pro. This is the optimal setup for me as it give me a large monitor for the things I can not do on an ipad. I just placed an order for a new 11” ipad pro and will be trading in my 10.5” as the battery is starting to fail. My mac mini can still handle everything else that I need it to.