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> I never used the iPad is anything more than a consumption device Same until I got the keyboard. Most of my iPads collected dust in a corner because I don’t r
by Swizec 3y ago
> I never used the iPad is anything more than a consumption device
Same until I got the keyboard. Most of my iPads collected dust in a corner because I don’t really do that much consumption.
Then I got the Magic Keyboard and my iPad basically replaced my laptop. I use it for almost all my non-coding work. Even to give talks and workshops at conferences. The battery life is amazing, the form factor super convenient, and it fits on airplanes or in your lap perfectly.
Nowadays my laptop mostly works as a desktop computer sitting in its dock hooked into a keyboard, monitor, and mouse. Useful only for very serious work.
- joshstrange 3y agoThat’s something I still need to test in the Apple Vision Pro, connecting a keyboard to it. I used it with my laptop, which lets you use your keyboard with other Apple Vision Pro apps while it’s connected, which was very nice, and I also broke out the magic trackpad to use with the Apple Vision Pro because scrolling got annoying after a while. The problem is what I want to do is write code and I want to do it using my IDE so doing that inside of the Apple Vision Pro isn’t really possible unless I’m connected to my MacBook Pro
- jhrmnn 3y agoInteresting, exactly the same experience here. I’m now contemplating getting a desktop computer again once my laptop dies.
- somewhereoutth 3y agoBut would it be fair to say that with the Magic Keyboard, your iPad has in fact become a laptop?
- Swizec 3y agoIt’s certainly almost as heavy. Unfortunately iOS is very nerfed compared to MacOS even though my M2 iPad probably hs more compute than my i9 laptop.
- nozzlegear 3y agoSame here, the keyboard plus iPad Pro has been an incredible combo for me. I’ve written here on HN before about how I use it to write code from the couch, bed, and even hotel rooms by SSHing into the Mac in my office and using Vim. I’ve got an Apple Vision Pro and am planning to test exactly that setup tonight.
- pama 3y agoDid it work fine?
- nozzlegear 3y agoHonestly it wasn’t bad at all! I’m sort of surprised how nice it was to work with using that setup. I had a little bit of trouble because the terminal/ssh app I like on my iPad (Blink) doesn’t work well at all on AVP, so I had to find another one. I ended up with La Termina which has a UX built for AVP. I think my only other complaints would be these: 1. Scrolling in Safari can be annoying depending on the website. Last night I was trying to refactor some GitHub Actions, and scrolling through the Action run page, it really wanted to get stuck selecting random parts of the GitHub UI that were close to what I was looking at but definitely not what I was looking at. I want some kind of cursor I can pick up and move in those scenarios I guess. 2. I don’t know why but I kinda expected my iPad keyboard to just work with the AVP, but it obviously did not. I wanted it to work like it does with the Mac, where I can just connect to the iPad as another screen and also use its peripherals, but that was not the case, so I had to run up to my office and grab a Bluetooth keyboard. All in all it’s not a bad experience so far. I’m not sold on it being better than the iPad just because the AVP is so heavy. But it’s definitely cool having a gigantic 4k terminal floating in the air above my bed while my wife reads her book and calls me a turbonerd. :P
- pama 3y agoThanks. There is a market for us turbonerds coding in bed in a VR.