Using iPad as a Primary Device

kaisterkai

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Hi,

Just want to find out what is the challenges of someone using only their iPad as a Primary device? But still have a windows computer on the side for bigger work

Let me know, I'm thinking of just buying an iPad and not a MacBook.
 
kaisterkai said:
Everything, like google drive, document changing, emailing. General work
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I think it is a practical device so long as you are happy to jump through the odd hoop - file storage and so on. Pair a stand, keyboard and even a mouse with this and you will be happy I think.

Is there anything you want to do that would be impossible or difficult on a tablet device, which you need to do daily or frequently, and which you could otherwise easily do on a laptop? If not, then I would say you have a good device for your work needs.
 
i cant get my iPad onto the network at work so that i can print, so that sux.
MacAir is pretty good, had mine for 5yrs now
 
kaisterkai said:
Everything, like google drive, document changing, emailing. General work
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Every single user that I have seen trying to use only their tablet has gone back to using their laptop for day to day work.

Tablets are consumption devices and suck at working on Excel spreadsheets (Excel as the example; not discounting the plethora of other desktop apps)
 
kaisterkai said:
Hi,

Just want to find out what is the challenges of someone using only their iPad as a Primary device? But still have a windows computer on the side for bigger work

Let me know, I'm thinking of just buying an iPad and not a MacBook.
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It really depends on what you do during the day. iPad can be a primary replacement, or it can't.
This is like comparing battery life - everyone has different usages.
 
kaisterkai said:
Hi,

Just want to find out what is the challenges of someone using only their iPad as a Primary device? But still have a windows computer on the side for bigger work

Let me know, I'm thinking of just buying an iPad and not a MacBook.
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I tried this before back in university when I had the awesome iPad 4 LTE, and I can tell you it did not work out well, always returned to the laptop, it was just a whole lot easier to edit documents with a mouse and a physical keyboard than what felt like the incredibly limited iOS and hardware of the iPad.

With my iPad Air 2 I use it mainly for media and incredibly lite tasks like just opening a document, if I want to delve down and edit I jump straight to my MacBook Air.

Get the MacBook and get MS Office suite, you will thank yourself!
 
Tsepz_011 said:
I tried this before back in university when I had the awesome iPad 4 LTE, and I can tell you it did not work out well, always returned to the laptop, it was just a whole lot easier to edit documents with a mouse and a physical keyboard than what felt like the incredibly limited iOS and hardware of the iPad.

With my iPad Air 2 I use it mainly for media and incredibly lite tasks like just opening a document, if I want to delve down and edit I jump straight to my MacBook Air.

Get the MacBook and get MS Office suite, you will thank yourself!
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Though a lot of those editing problems become much easier with the Pencil and an iPad Pro.
 
I made that “run my business” only on iPad challenge for a month for myself, and in 90% of the time it is awesome.

I have the iPad Pro 10.5 with keyboard and pencil (not an artist).

In the IT industry, and can do anything that I need to on it.

Things that you need a notebook for would be programming. iOS isn’t multitasking, they would say I’m wrong, but it is task switching, when I connect with TeamViewer to a client, you can’t switch to another app for a few minutes while you wait, as it would close the session, if you switch to copy info, and switch back it works. (Less than minute)

What is your concerns? I’ll try answering them, like mattrudlles mentionted, it is difficult to say when you don’t know what the needs are. (A mouse wouldn’t work).

Let us know what you do on your PC, then we can see if it would work, or PM me and chat.

This is a topic I’m very invested in for last 6 years.
 
The iPad pro and pencil is awesome. Just not a replacement for my laptop in my experience. It is sort of like having the most awesome car but without having a reverse gear for example - perfect 85% of the time until you need to reverse. I would say that if you could do everything you need doing on an android tablet then an iPad is a way better tablet experience than android - but like android it is limited versus a laptop. Still I am sure there must be a small number of work scenarios that would be perfectly at home on an android tablet (or on an iPad) vs laptop - so depends on what you do.
 
Milano said:
The iPad pro and pencil is awesome. Just not a replacement for my laptop in my experience. It is sort of like having the most awesome car but without having a reverse gear for example - perfect 85% of the time until you need to reverse. I would say that if you could do everything you need doing on an android tablet then an iPad is a way better tablet experience than android - but like android it is limited versus a laptop. Still I am sure there must be a small number of work scenarios that would be perfectly at home on an android tablet (or on an iPad) vs laptop - so depends on what you do.
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Absolutely agreed with this.
 
If you really want to dig in deep to what is possible as a “power user” of an iPad - hit up Macstories.net.

Federico Viticci does some absolutely crazy stuff i.t.o. automation and the like, and basically runs everything in his world off an iPad. And there are many out there like him who have made the swap.

It’s certainly possible, but with the usual caveats of what you usage will actually entail, and who/what you need to collaborate with etc.
 
mattrudlles said:
I think it is a practical device so long as you are happy to jump through the odd hoop - file storage and so on. Pair a stand, keyboard and even a mouse with this and you will be happy I think.

Is there anything you want to do that would be impossible or difficult on a tablet device, which you need to do daily or frequently, and which you could otherwise easily do on a laptop? If not, then I would say you have a good device for your work needs.
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I think you cannot connect a mouse to an iPad.. Only the pencil. I actually want the pencil.
 
Milano said:
The iPad pro and pencil is awesome. Just not a replacement for my laptop in my experience. It is sort of like having the most awesome car but without having a reverse gear for example - perfect 85% of the time until you need to reverse. I would say that if you could do everything you need doing on an android tablet then an iPad is a way better tablet experience than android - but like android it is limited versus a laptop. Still I am sure there must be a small number of work scenarios that would be perfectly at home on an android tablet (or on an iPad) vs laptop - so depends on what you do.
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Yea, I was always just wondering why can't Apple create something like the surface pro.. Anyway, still current time, it would see,like I have to get both :(
 
kaisterkai said:
Yea, I was always just wondering why can't Apple create something like the surface pro.. Anyway, still current time, it would see,like I have to get both :(
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I’d say give them another 2 years or so. The Apple A12X Bionic is showing some incredible performance and their movement to using USB-C in iPads I think is pointing towards them creating some sort of Surface Pro competitor soon.

May be at some point we will get an iPad Pro with macOS or maybe some sort of Hybrid between macOS and iOS, either way I think they do have a big plan for iPads as iOS in its current state is holding the, back from making the, the real beasts that they are.

As I understand you are correct, you cannot connect a Mouse to iOS which is part of the reason why I simply couldn’t use it for the heavy stuff.
 
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