I was playing with my iPad last night and I could edit my affinity files very fast. I am thinking one issue I will have is print management for my large scale printers. I have been reading and print management on iPad is "iffy".
Found another limitation too. Ad blocking. I have 2 different ad blockers on my iPad and they slow down safari to a crawl. Edge and brave are way faster
Welcome to desktop OS liiiiiife. I could never do it either. First time I wanted to just grab a file quick I am like yeah. This is so stupid. I think Android would actually be better in this regard, but then you have Google. Ugg.
Yep, I never found a tablet to be a good tool for work, just watching/reading/playing. Its a great product for the right usage but for me, I found it does a poor job in the tasks I need - conversely a desktop/laptop excels at those very tasks
I don't use any google services on my android phone so thats a non issue for us. We use microsoft services which we enjoy. Just windows hardware now is trash so away we go to mac.
The moral of the story, and it's one hundred percent true for me is you need all three. A desktop for heavy heavy lifting, a laptop that is powerful enough to do what's needed and a tablet for tablety stuff.
For me, I need only one
Yeah I agree. I currently have a 16" laptop that is both my desktop and my laptop, but then I have an iPad Pro for on the go. I may swap that out for my Surface Pro if WWDC isn't amazing. I do have a Macbook Air for on the go as well, but I just don't need to use it much and really am not a fan of Tahoe.
WAAAAAAAAY Bulkier. It's a Lenovo Legion 16" 7 Pro with a 400W power brick. (It also has an i9 275HX and RTX 5090). But it is not light or very portable. I do work from home again, temporarily, and I will use it to remote in to my remote desktop at work from my home office shed, so I do move it back and forth. In my shed office setup, it is smart enough to be charged by the USB-C 100W Dock that I have--just no discrete graphics, which is fine for work.
For me, the 16” form factor is hard to beat. I’ll take the size increase simply because reading off of a 14” display is that much harder with my old eyes
I don't use Google services on my Android phone, either. I've never had the phone logged into a Google account. The one somewhat limiting thing has been with apps, but I limite the apps I have, and they come from F-Droid.
The zenbook may be a different beast. This thing is like an inch thick LOL.
I totally agree. I love it as my main PC. in fact, I have a work laptop (a Dell 14" Inspiron that is perfectly average), but I love the 16" screen as my second monitor so much more than that 14" one.
I remember half thinking of getting a laptop years ago. At that time, I thought a large screen model would be my ideal choice. Not the most portable, but it would be the most useable at home. And it would be portable enough for when I needed to take it someplace.
Its been long rumored, and I believe its not just MS making the laptops, but Dell, and HP will also have models.
That agentic crap sounds really really bad. Like fire it into the sun bad. Like WTF bad.
Yeah, I agree. While the initial thoughts of having something really powerful from nvidia was rather tempting, seeing them move to AI centric computing is off putting. I can't say that I'm surprised, as they're making orders of magnitude more money on AI then GPUs, so why not push that into desktop computing.
Yes, after doing some more reading and watching. It's a no. Back to the mac. ha ha ha. M5 Macbook pro, brand new, not refurbed. Might as well bite the bullet. Buy once, cry once. Deal with the OS issues I have with MacOS, and just open the software I use and goto work!
