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Most work can now be done on an iPad Pro without much compromise (highlighting stuff is still annoying, but oh well). With a little creativity, even decent amou
by sologoub 8y ago
Most work can now be done on an iPad Pro without much compromise (highlighting stuff is still annoying, but oh well). With a little creativity, even decent amount of coding can be done.
Note that with the iPad, Apple is doing everything they can to hamstring the ability to code or replace the Mac.
Now expand your field of vision to Surface and Pixel Slate, and now you have two fully featured computing devices that act like a tablet, but readily convert to full on productivity machines complete with nice keyboards and pointing devices. Both support external monitors (why on earth can I not use airplay like this?!).
This hasn’t caught on yet, but for the average office user, and event many developers, these tablets with external keyboards provide more than enough computing power to get all of their work done.
For now I’m staying with my iPad, but Google has really made that choice a lot more difficult with the Pixel Slate. Had I been less bought into the Apple ecosystem, I’d be ordering it immediately.
EDIT: Forgot to mention eGPUs - if I could run a Thunderbolt3 eGPU on either Surface or Pixel Slate, probably would have switched by now.
- atomicnumber1 8y agoespecially since it can run linux apps. But, their ui was pretty laggy in the recent demos. You can't beat iOS in UI smoothness. Edit: grammar
- sologoub 8y agoYeah, iOS is definitely very polished. Haven’t seen much lag though on ChromeOS.
- atomicnumber1 8y agoI don't know about chromeos in general, I was specifically talking about the newly announced pixel slate. The hardware seems promising, not sure about the software.
- mark_l_watson 8y agoI agree. I do tons of work on an iPad Pro. Laptops are o lot better for writing code but for most other work and fun stuff I like an iPad much better.