iPad Pro What options do I have for iPad Pro M1 devices?

[Dorfdad]

So I have an iPad M1 Pro and so far loving it. I can do almost everything I need to do from it professionally. However I would like to find a dock / replicator that would allow me to put plug it in at a desk and make it my "PC" on a larger monitor with a keyboard and apple mouse.

Couple of questions however.

With the resolution and size of the iPad screen I don't want black bars all the time, and I was wondering is there a way to make the iPAD screen go dark when connected sorta of like when you close a laptop lid and an external monitor is connected?

Links to devices would be appreciated as well.

Thanks.

 

[jdb8167]

So I have an iPad M1 Pro and so far loving it. I can do almost everything I need to do from it professionally. However I would like to find a dock / replicator that would allow me to put plug it in at a desk and make it my "PC" on a larger monitor with a keyboard and apple mouse.

Couple of questions however.

With the resolution and size of the iPad screen I don't want black bars all the time, and I was wondering is there a way to make the iPAD screen go dark when connected sorta of like when you close a laptop lid and an external monitor is connected?

Links to devices would be appreciated as well.

Thanks.

In most cases, the external monitor will just mirror your iPad's display. It will show black bars on the sides because of the different aspect ratio. There is no such thing as clamshell mode on the iPad Pro and it wouldn't be useful if there were since you need the iPad Pro display to work as a touch input device.

In general, there is little reason to buy an expensive Thunderbolt dock. A USB-C dock will work just as well and at a significantly lower cost. The problem is that the only thing that might take advantage of TB3 40 Gbps speeds are external SSDs but apparently they don't really work at that speed on iPadOS. This video gives a pretty good summary.