iPad Pro to MacBook Air M1

[ivanwi11iams]

Currently, Apple are offering $345 trade in, for an iPad Pro (64GB, WIFI). At the moment, I do not travel often, and if I do, I could take my iPad, with the smart keyboard (or whatever it is called).

However, I have been thinking about upgrading from an iPad Pro, to a MacBook Air M1 (already have a Mac Mini M1 for day to day desk use).
Has anyone else done that type of upgrade and if so, was it worth it for your use case?

PS: I mainly use my devices for email, web browsing, photos, calendars, media content consumption, and such.

 

[The_Interloper]

I sold my M1 12.9" iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard and switched to an M1 MacBook Air. The iPad was very nice...but it's still an iPad. That meant restrictions on things I could use or how I use them - for example, my pay TV provider in the UK won't allow their app to output wirelessly or over HDMI to a hotel TV. That's a deal breaker for a consumption device for me.

If you're an artist and need the Pencil, things may be different. But given your use cases, the MacBook Air sounds like a great fit. Oh, and it has way longer battery life.

 

[ivanwi11iams]

I sold my M1 12.9" iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard and switched to an M1 MacBook Air. The iPad was very nice...but it's still an iPad. That meant restrictions on things I could use or how I use them - for example, my pay TV provider in the UK won't allow their app to output wirelessly or over HDMI to a hotel TV. That's a deal breaker for a consumption device for me.

If you're an artist and need the Pencil, things may be different. But given your use cases, the MacBook Air sounds like a great fit. Oh, and it has way longer battery life.

...thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.

 

[dizmonk]

I had the Ipad pro 11 and traded it in. I preferred the Ipad's screen and speakers but I needed a keyboard/full fledged computer. I use the M1 MBA way more than I used my Ipad.

 

[Shirasaki]

For me iPad and MacBook fills different roles. Despite both using the same processor, macOS is far more versatile on anything except gaming, portability and light-weight content consumption (AirPods Pro freaks out there, you ain’t gonna professionally listen to anything through iPad using that headphone).

Obviously, different people have different use cases (in a very similar way smh). But for your use case, I feel iPad should still be good, especially when all tasks are web based with next to no local computing required. Nonetheless, I would not personally perceive moving from iPad to MacBook an “upgrade”, more like a switch of computing experience.