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Who have a desktop, or who'd like to try to drop to just one device for whatever reason (cost, easier traveling, minimalism, whatever)

spogbiper 4y ago
wouldn't it make sense to drop the ipad and/or desktop, since the laptop can do what either of those can do? of course with some exceptions like hardcore gaming
- vorpalhex 4y ago
  The iPad format is really convenient in situations where a laptop can be a drag.
- brimble 4y ago
  A laptop can't do all the things an iPad can. Other things, it can, but it's worse for them. It's not as practical to add on hardware & software to make a laptop able to do those things, as it is to add a keyboard and pointing device to an iPad and try to attack the problem from the other direction, if you don't strictly need some of the things that a laptop can do but an iPad can't (local virtual machines, for example).
  - criddell 4y ago
    The more likely reason is the iPad has software that the laptop does not. If you need to use Procreate or GoodNotes (for example), then it might make sense to find some compromise solution for the rest of the work that you would normally do on a laptop.
    - brimble 4y ago
      That's could be part of it, but for AR, drawing or (hand) writing, reading long-form text, applications that involve putting your device where a piece of paper or a paper notebook might go (lecterns, music stands), anything that requires or is made better by orientation sensors and accelerometers, basically anything involving a camera that's not video conferencing, plus probably some other stuff I'm forgetting about, the format and hardware capabilities of an iPad make it significantly better than a laptop. Laptops are better at some other things, but if you do very much of the above you're probably gonna have a tablet, too. If you don't do much of what laptops can do that iPads can't (mostly for software-limitations reasons), then replacing the laptop with your tablet might be a viable approach. You can't really do the reverse without a bunch of extra hardware (admittedly, you do need a keyboard and some kind of pointing device for the iPad-as-laptop-replacement thing, too) or just carrying two devices.

spogbiper 4y ago

wouldn't it make sense to drop the ipad and/or desktop, since the laptop can do what either of those can do? of course with some exceptions like hardcore gaming

vorpalhex 4y ago
The iPad format is really convenient in situations where a laptop can be a drag.
brimble 4y ago
A laptop can't do all the things an iPad can. Other things, it can, but it's worse for them. It's not as practical to add on hardware & software to make a laptop able to do those things, as it is to add a keyboard and pointing device to an iPad and try to attack the problem from the other direction, if you don't strictly need some of the things that a laptop can do but an iPad can't (local virtual machines, for example).
- criddell 4y ago
  The more likely reason is the iPad has software that the laptop does not. If you need to use Procreate or GoodNotes (for example), then it might make sense to find some compromise solution for the rest of the work that you would normally do on a laptop.
  - brimble 4y ago
    That's could be part of it, but for AR, drawing or (hand) writing, reading long-form text, applications that involve putting your device where a piece of paper or a paper notebook might go (lecterns, music stands), anything that requires or is made better by orientation sensors and accelerometers, basically anything involving a camera that's not video conferencing, plus probably some other stuff I'm forgetting about, the format and hardware capabilities of an iPad make it significantly better than a laptop. Laptops are better at some other things, but if you do very much of the above you're probably gonna have a tablet, too. If you don't do much of what laptops can do that iPads can't (mostly for software-limitations reasons), then replacing the laptop with your tablet might be a viable approach. You can't really do the reverse without a bunch of extra hardware (admittedly, you do need a keyboard and some kind of pointing device for the iPad-as-laptop-replacement thing, too) or just carrying two devices.