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I'm a longtime Mac user who bought a Microsoft Surface Pro last year that replaced my 2013 MacBook Air. Even though Windows is not my favorite OS, I like havin
by linguae 4y ago
I'm a longtime Mac user who bought a Microsoft Surface Pro last year that replaced my 2013 MacBook Air. Even though Windows is not my favorite OS, I like having a full-blown desktop/workstation OS on a device that I could take notes and draw on, and WSL has made Windows much more pleasant for me. Also, to be frank, the Microsoft Surface Pro is the closest thing we have to Alan Kay's Dynabook concept (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook ); in fact, I have Squeak (a Smalltalk environment that is a direct descendant of Smalltalk-80) on my Surface Pro.
The iPad Pro is fine hardware, but as a developer I find being restricted to the App Store for my applications very off-putting, and I personally believe this goes against what personal computing stands for; I'm willing to put up with these restrictions for phones, but not for tablets. macOS on an M1 iPad Pro, however, would be a game-changer.