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> Why does the iPad Pro make your life better than doing the same thing on a MacBook/notebook/Desktop? IME in comes down to two questions most of the time: -
by makeitdouble 4y ago
> Why does the iPad Pro make your life better than doing the same thing on a MacBook/notebook/Desktop?
IME in comes down to two questions most of the time:
- do you live alone ? (including pets like cats or ferrets)
- do you like sitting at desks/tables outside of work ?
If you answered no to both, a laptop is viable, but an iPad will make your life much much easier. Scrolling with the trackpad while your cat comes to sit on the keyboard is not great. Having a laptop open while you lay down next to a toddler is a death wish for the laptop.
Even sitting next to someone in a sofa: the iPad is a mostly rounded, pretty rugged and overall smallish device, a macbook is bigger in volume as it’s unfolded, more angular and way more fragile. Also you can pass the device around, it’s great when making plans.
Then using an iPad in weird positions is fine, a laptop not so much.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI sit for a few hours on the couch next to my pup with my 16” MBP every day and it’s never been an issue. Granted she’s not cat- or ferret-like at least in this regard, our biggest daily disruptions usually involve her standing up with her front paws on the back of the couch and licking my head. Which I don’t think an iPad would address other than being convenient to snap some photos of the adorableness without a bigger reach.