For work, I basically use a 30" monitor with a single terminal showing a tmux session, so an iPad is just a scaled down version of that. I use one as my "lapto

For work, I basically use a 30" monitor with a single terminal showing a tmux session, so an iPad is just a scaled down version of that. I use one as my "laptop" because it's lighter than laptops, the battery lasts longer, it doesn't have a billion configuration options that I need to manually keep in sync with my desktop (that's the big one for me), and it has a built-in 4G modem that only costs $20 a month to have unlimited data on. I think it's annoying that it has such a powerful CPU but the software won't let me run my usual development tools directly on the machine, and that Safari is missing features like allowing webpages to take advantage of the 120Hz display. It kind of reminds me of being a Sony user in the early 2000s... amazing hardware, absolutely crap software. Apple's software is not crap and is generally pretty okay, but it does feel a lot like that situation to me. If the iOS ecosystem were open-source, Intel-based laptops would be dead on the floor. But it's not, so you have to either suffer a hot underpowered laptop that runs good software, or a quick and light device that only runs dumbed-down versions of software. Even though the iPad has more raw CPU power. The big things I miss are mouse support (way better device than my fingers, for manipulating web pages designed with mice, anyway), the ability to talk to random USB dongles (I run into lots of things with UARTs that I want to talk to from my "laptop"), and the inability to run things like Fusion 360. (I'm willing to change CAD software if there is something that runs equally-well on iPads and Windows/Linux, though.) (I do think it's funny that to make money, all I need is a terminal connected to a Linux box and the Internet... but for hobbies and recreation, I need software that is written by thousands of developers all working on the same codebase.)