the ipad pro is a great laptop replacement if you bias to safari and web apps.
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And you get the Magic Keyboard and a mouseā¦.
Maybe Iāll get a real laptop
but we want freedom tech
I have a Chromebook that cost 1/4 as much, has a bigger screen and a real keyboard
In his defense, the device he's advocating for isn't produced by an advertising company with documented deep state connections, but rather, a company that has actually stood up in court against demands that it install backdoors to circumvent its user privacy measures.
Can't say I'm fond of either option, at least, with the stock OS, but either can work in a limited scope provided you're aware of the limitations.
I don't think you can trust any mass-produced western-market consumer electronics
Iāve been using mine a lot more for admin tasks: notes, email, calendar, web, reminders. Iāll bring it with me instead if I donāt plan on coding
I sold mine a while back because of a job change and I didnāt use it near as much. But now I really miss it. Honestly it was a great planner / organizer all around.
Canāt recommend Blink enough. It supports mosh which allows the iPad to restore ssh connections after having been backgrounded. Merry that with tmux and you can actually do some real dev work even if you didnāt plan to.
I think hes been hacked or at the very least lent his phone to someone whos playing a prank
nice sketchbook and possibly even plein-air sculpting tool too with the new zbrush for ipad
Iāve been thinking about switching. I have a bulky 2019 MacBook Pro
Like a real "Bitcoiner". Could have chosen libre soft and hardwarw. Instead chooses the closed sourced privacy nightmare FTW.
#CypherpunkFail
Apple is junk, stop being stupid, Jack
He's likely not being stupid; he just has more computers than you, so they don't ALL need to be general purpose. When all you want is an appliance, Apple's not so bad at providing it. Just never expect it to replace a full functioning system that actually welcomes you to use the hardware you own. The number one malware threat Apple protects against is called "User input."
Sounds like... Apple is junk.
I mostly feel that way, but to play devil's advocate, is the fact that your toaster doesn't ask you to configure voltage, resistance, and manually configure an adapter to the wall a bug or a feature?
Sometimes people just want an appliance to be an appliance, and not have as much of a surface of things that can go wrong, or simply be misconfigured. It boggles my mind that these people exist to a degree that even their primary computer follows these principles, but it's not particularly surprising that for a device that they on use for a specific task, they'd rather it just not be any more complicated than it needs to be.
Where Apple pisses me off though is somewhat the same place Roku TV's piss me off, in that they step in the way even of things I likely want to do in the limited scope of the appliance they've sold me. It's why I'll take an Amazon Firestick or a Google Chromecast over them any day of the week.
But, I won't begrudge the fact that people like my wife exist, who really would rather not navigate through menus to get to what they want, even if it means they can't go streaming anything from fmovies and actually have to PAY for what they watch, AND see the ads that are packaged with it. I will just sit around and worry for their sanity.
Makes sense
Yeah :) it is a great laptop replacement! I use mine all the time for excel. Very helpful tool for double checking my cell formulas fast too, especially in an exam setting, when Iām allowed to have one other device - I tend to second-guess myself. 
The Samsung TabS with keyboard is an actual replacement for your laptop. Would never go back to Apple
Lenovo duet is just way better and cheaper and fits the bill of ālaptop replacementā a lot more than an iPad does.
For one thing : you have access to the file system. For another, the keyboard feels like an actual laptop.
@ jack I gave it a college try. IMHO just get a smaller laptop or a bigger phone. Determined it is just a boomer gadget.
We need more open source device. Now more than ever.
So, Grandma's appliance to replace her computer. Got it.
In fairness, throw a decent VNC client on there, hook up a keyboard and mouse, stop being annoyed by a little latency, and it may be a reasonable enough, though overpriced, thin client, allowing for you to actually get some work done, provided you've got a remote system or systems to be doing the real work on.
Which I guess is what you just said, except that a web app is to remote access what driving a bumper car is to driving cars.
š¤·āāļø my iPad is the same one Moses used for the commandments. It barely runs anything at all any moreš
why would one voluntarily restrict themselves so much?
nahhhh my 15 year old laptop>>>>>
I mean, itās good for travel. Like a backup.
Perfect for a little twink. Jack should buy www.twink.com and make the next twitter
Safari better than Brave?
Still hacked with malware, vpn and unregistered.