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iPads are GREAT value. I can still count how many iPads I've had since I got into it: - around 2011 I had an iPad 2 - resold it half a year later, granted, be

iPads are GREAT value. I can still count how many iPads I've had since I got into it: - around 2011 I had an iPad 2 - resold it half a year later, granted, because I wanted the new RETINA version ... which I used until late 2016 !! It was still usable for anything but browsing, when browsing the the 512 MB RAM wasnt keeping up with the bloated web, and it wasnt holding more than one tab in memory so it was becoming a hassle, otherwise back then all my RSS apps etc worked just fine - then I bought an iPad AIR 2 early 2017, which I am still using today! I could probably get another couple years out of this one That's 3 iPads over 10+ years. Nowaadatys the iPad is also pretty much a PC if you connect a USB hub you can use a keyboard, a mouse ...

APock 5y ago
> Nowaadatys the iPad is also pretty much a PC This is completely untrue and the fact that people think being able to connect a mouse and keyboard make it a PC is appaling. The complete OS experience is terrible for anything other than the most absolute basic tasks, and there is not hardware way around that.
- theshrike79 5y ago
  YMMV and you do need to change your habits a bit, which is anathema to the HN crowd. "It can't run my custom i3wm setup and doom-emacs and I can't even cargo install stuff on it, completely unusable!" I could, and have, done my work just with an iPad and an external keyboard. Blink shell[0] to SSH into a remote environment. VS Code or a similar browser-based editor for code[1]. Of course a full 16" laptop would be better, but before the M1 the battery life was nothing near what the iPad could bring. [0] https://blink.sh https://blink.sh [1] https://vscode.dev https://vscode.dev
  - LinAGKar 5y ago
    So then you're still using a PC, but remotely
    - theshrike79 5y ago
      Cloud a.k.a Someone Else's Computer, yes =) The difference is that I'm not lugging around a huge power hungry CPU.
- kcplate 5y ago
  > The complete OS experience is terrible for anything other than the most absolute basic tasks, and there is not hardware way around that Your opinion. If my work laptop dies, I’ll likely requisition an 12.9 IPad Pro with cellular as a replacement, and with my iPad Pro 10.5 for personal and will be the happiest person on this earth. It’s just the best and most trouble free device/computer I have owned and used in over 45 years of using all manners and flavors of personal computing devices.

APock 5y ago

> Nowaadatys the iPad is also pretty much a PC This is completely untrue and the fact that people think being able to connect a mouse and keyboard make it a PC is appaling. The complete OS experience is terrible for anything other than the most absolute basic tasks, and there is not hardware way around that.

theshrike79 5y ago
YMMV and you do need to change your habits a bit, which is anathema to the HN crowd. "It can't run my custom i3wm setup and doom-emacs and I can't even cargo install stuff on it, completely unusable!" I could, and have, done my work just with an iPad and an external keyboard. Blink shell[0] to SSH into a remote environment. VS Code or a similar browser-based editor for code[1]. Of course a full 16" laptop would be better, but before the M1 the battery life was nothing near what the iPad could bring. [0] https://blink.sh https://blink.sh [1] https://vscode.dev https://vscode.dev
- LinAGKar 5y ago
  So then you're still using a PC, but remotely
  - theshrike79 5y ago
    Cloud a.k.a Someone Else's Computer, yes =) The difference is that I'm not lugging around a huge power hungry CPU.
kcplate 5y ago
> The complete OS experience is terrible for anything other than the most absolute basic tasks, and there is not hardware way around that Your opinion. If my work laptop dies, I’ll likely requisition an 12.9 IPad Pro with cellular as a replacement, and with my iPad Pro 10.5 for personal and will be the happiest person on this earth. It’s just the best and most trouble free device/computer I have owned and used in over 45 years of using all manners and flavors of personal computing devices.