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For work I need an SSH client to access remote servers, and a web browser for when ClickOps is needed. Long battery life, and a tack sharp touch screen are glad

For work I need an SSH client to access remote servers, and a web browser for when ClickOps is needed. Long battery life, and a tack sharp touch screen are gladly accepted. An iPad is the perfect "laptop" for me.

AppleBananaPie 1y ago
Do you use this as your main driver or just to check on things? Just trying to imagine the workflow :) I personally prefer a ~32" 4k screen for main work but I could see the convenience of an iPad to quickly remote in and check on stuff or maybe it's enough on it's own and I can learn from ya'll!
- vel0city 1y ago
  Por que no los dos? Just dock your iPad in the office and get a desktop class experience. Pick it up and go and have your same apps and sessions and data anywhere. Would be nice. It's the experience I had with a Surface but I get Windows isn't applicable to all users and workloads.
  - AppleBananaPie 1y ago
    Yeah I need a local mac for builds / debugging :( Thanks for the info, I'll dream of better days ;)
    - Terretta 1y ago
      Not really, Xcode Cloud will auto-build from an event hook on a GitHub commit. You can use this to fix bugs in iOS apps from the park and try new TestFlight builds within minutes.
      - AppleBananaPie 1y ago
        What I work on is much too large for those to be options :)
  - ragazzina 1y ago
    > Just dock your iPad in the office The fact that you can't turn off the iPad screen while it's docked drives me crazy.
    - ahmeneeroe-v2 1y ago
      You can? As long as you have keyboard/mouse (which the Magic Keyboard qualifies as)
      - ragazzina 1y ago
        Can you teach me how to do that? Every single Google result (and my own experience) say you can't.
        ahmeneeroe-v2 1y ago
        I recently got rid of my M1 iPad Pro, so I can't verify (and you might be right). I recall: using stage manager, plugging into monitor via USB-C, going into Settings to disable mirroring/enable as external display, ensuring you have a mouse/keyboard connected to the iPad, and then just clicking the iPad screen off with the lock/unlock button. lmk if that works!
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  - wildrhythms 1y ago
    The mouse driven experience on iPad OS is awful. And switching between apps leads to apps suspending themselves in the background when I don't want them to. And Safari aggressively suspends browser tabs on iPad so you lose any kind of web page state.
- Terretta 1y ago
  iPad Pro supports external 4K screen and you can drag and arrange windows.
masklinn 1y ago
GP is not talking about “an iPad” tho, but an iPad Pro with a literal laptop-class CPU.

AppleBananaPie 1y ago

Do you use this as your main driver or just to check on things? Just trying to imagine the workflow :) I personally prefer a ~32" 4k screen for main work but I could see the convenience of an iPad to quickly remote in and check on stuff or maybe it's enough on it's own and I can learn from ya'll!

vel0city 1y ago
Por que no los dos? Just dock your iPad in the office and get a desktop class experience. Pick it up and go and have your same apps and sessions and data anywhere. Would be nice. It's the experience I had with a Surface but I get Windows isn't applicable to all users and workloads.
- AppleBananaPie 1y ago
  Yeah I need a local mac for builds / debugging :( Thanks for the info, I'll dream of better days ;)
  - Terretta 1y ago
    Not really, Xcode Cloud will auto-build from an event hook on a GitHub commit. You can use this to fix bugs in iOS apps from the park and try new TestFlight builds within minutes.
    - AppleBananaPie 1y ago
      What I work on is much too large for those to be options :)
- ragazzina 1y ago
  > Just dock your iPad in the office The fact that you can't turn off the iPad screen while it's docked drives me crazy.
  - ahmeneeroe-v2 1y ago
    You can? As long as you have keyboard/mouse (which the Magic Keyboard qualifies as)
    - ragazzina 1y ago
      Can you teach me how to do that? Every single Google result (and my own experience) say you can't.
      - ahmeneeroe-v2 1y ago
        I recently got rid of my M1 iPad Pro, so I can't verify (and you might be right). I recall: using stage manager, plugging into monitor via USB-C, going into Settings to disable mirroring/enable as external display, ensuring you have a mouse/keyboard connected to the iPad, and then just clicking the iPad screen off with the lock/unlock button. lmk if that works!
- deleted 1y ago
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- wildrhythms 1y ago
  The mouse driven experience on iPad OS is awful. And switching between apps leads to apps suspending themselves in the background when I don't want them to. And Safari aggressively suspends browser tabs on iPad so you lose any kind of web page state.
Terretta 1y ago
iPad Pro supports external 4K screen and you can drag and arrange windows.

masklinn 1y ago

GP is not talking about “an iPad” tho, but an iPad Pro with a literal laptop-class CPU.