The fact a device costing so much can't render an Emirates page to book a flight, or book an appointment at my doctors (there are many more cases) when my M2 Pro Mac mini using Firefox can, that really says just how much a useful replacement for a desktop/laptop an iPad is for my own usage sadly. I come across to many websites where even with cards stored it cant render the site properly to pass the security checks for the card, yet the mac version of Safari can on any other browser that's on a mac laptop mac or desktop.
Dont get me wrong the iPad is a great media consumption and search tool, but so is my TV or iPhone. I cannot see its useful when I have to use my desktop or to get things done and a M4 wont change that. I would love for it to fit in my workflow, and I really hope that changes this year at WWDC but I'm not holding my breath. Now when a M4 comes out for other Macs yep I'll be interested, but right now my old iPad Pro will do just as badly as the new one will in certain computing tasks like browsing the web and that's not great, of course others will have better times with it than me, but right now its a over powered over sized iPhone still until they improve iPadOS with some features from macOS. One being a better browser.
That sounds more like improper web development, because it probably will look crappy on iPhone as well. If it looks good on iPhone and macOS safari, it’s really odd, but it might not necessarily be the iPad. I have come across websites that don’t function well very rarely.
Working 8-14 hours a day on my iPad, it is a joy to use for note taking, writing mails, cross referencing, reading large amounts of documents/pdf’s etc.
only real problem I have is some old (1996 and 2006) legacy systems my client has. That is the only reason I sometimes use a windows laptop. Horrible thing. It’s a dell 2-in-1, mediocre cpu/gpu, rather mediocre/bad screen, hoovers on my desk when I use teams, 148 euro’s pencil is terrible when compared to a Apple Pencil (laggy, bad writing experience,not supported by many apps). And the dell was still expensive at €2350… with 8gb and 256gb. Not my cup of tea.
that all being said, with my 11’ iPad m4, I’m going to enjoy it daily. I’m really curious if the 11“ is going to going well as the 13” m2 I still have. And I really hope the m4/ thermal design innovations are keeping the m4 cooler when attached to a 32” 5k screen when running lots of apps in stage manager. Stage manager has really had a huge productivity impact!
