When I got the 11" iPad Pro last year I thought a long time before buying, and even after I got it I still was berating myself for being so money-tight and not going for the Big One.
But now that iPadOS 16 Beta is out I know why I dit it! Or at least I finally nailed the reason posthumously. The 11" offers premium portability, better than the 12.9", and when I get home I plug it into my monitor and voilà, I got lots of screen estate.
The best of both worlds! I really love Stage Manager and how it's implemented by Apple. Some (many) might differ here, saying that iPadOS is not enough like MacOS. But for me they are different beasts. I don't want the iPad to become a Mac. After having used it as my main computer for months I got a Mac Mini for file server duty and some other stuff and I wondered about how 'complicated' some things seemed to be compared to the iPad.
This is my opinion, but I found the best machine for my use case and it's the 11" iPad Pro!
But now that iPadOS 16 Beta is out I know why I dit it! Or at least I finally nailed the reason posthumously. The 11" offers premium portability, better than the 12.9", and when I get home I plug it into my monitor and voilà, I got lots of screen estate.
The best of both worlds! I really love Stage Manager and how it's implemented by Apple. Some (many) might differ here, saying that iPadOS is not enough like MacOS. But for me they are different beasts. I don't want the iPad to become a Mac. After having used it as my main computer for months I got a Mac Mini for file server duty and some other stuff and I wondered about how 'complicated' some things seemed to be compared to the iPad.
This is my opinion, but I found the best machine for my use case and it's the 11" iPad Pro!