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iPad Pro iPad - daily driver

Would you consider iPad as a daily driver, if all your apps had native iPad versions?

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michalm

michalm

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Apr 17, 2014
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I have just been using an iPad (12.9) instead of my Air and I was surpsised how well it all works!? Overall much smoother experience than expected. Some issues here and there (can't be on teams meeting while taking notes), but nothing major...

I may switch!

Now I'm an office rat that finds itself in a web browser or one of the MS Office apps, so my life is somewhat simpler than others'.
 
Proper Monitor support is the big problem, but lots of apps at least support it in some form. Aside that and the fact that lightroom on the iPad cannot catalogue files in the same way that LR classic on the Mac can - meaning as a professional photographer I can’t do without a mac for that specific purpose, my iPad is definitely my daily driver. My mac is more like an app on it. I love this set up so much regardless though.
 
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I love me iPads and there is not a day goes by when I do not use it.
However the screen size is still an issue for me.
I want larger screens and I want two of them, regardless of whether it is my Windows or Mac devices.
 
I use my M1 IPP12.9 as a daily driver for both office and personal use. The company laptop have been collecting dust since well over two years.

I’m also a “office rat”, main use is e-mail and Teams. With the IPP I connect to the company Office365 cloud directly, on the laptop I have to log on to company VPN service with tokens etc, it’s a huge pain and slow with poor bandwidth. Also, I just hate that the windows laptop needs to be updated with patches, drivers etc every other day. Our IT-department pushes out every update and I can’t bypass or ignore them. It’s frustrating when it happens as I have to stop with whatever work I’m doing.

Over the past years Office365 apps have gone from “ok” to “rather good”. I’m the type of guy who likes to work in one app at a time, I hate to have dozens of windows open at the same time. The few times when I need to use a windows environment (company specific apps) I log on to a VDI Win10 through Citrix on the iPad. That happens about once every second month.

Basically, to me everything is faster and “cleaner” with the iPad. It’s more focused.

As a fact, the iPad has been my daily driver since the launch of the IPP9.7, before that the iPad was a complement (notebook, e-mail) to my windows laptop.
 
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My iPad is my daily driver as a personal device. My work doesn’t require a pc, my wife wouldn’t survive on an iPad as a daily, her workflow requires multiple tabs and apps at once and runs dual monitors.
 
A bargain price magic keyboard (2020) for my 2021 iPad Pro about six weeks ago turned my iPad into my daily driver. I have picked up my MacBookPro maybe twice since then. This suggests that I didn’t actually need a MacBook though.

I also haven’t really used the iPad out of the magic keyboard since it was slotted in. For me at least, it’s working well.
 
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