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How I Use the iPad Pro To Do Actual Work
Stop me if you have heard this one before: “I replaced my overpowered laptop with an equally overpowered tablet and its overpriced keyboard case and I use it get stuff done. Here are the apps I use: Notion, Obsidian, Ulysses, Apple Notes…”
You see a pattern emerging? Everyone who has ‘experimented’ with replacing their computer with an iPad full-time is just swapping out mashing away on one keyboard for another. In other words they could have swapped their MacBook for a Speak’n’Spell and not noticed any difference.
At the same time is the ridicule in the comments. The iPad isn’t a proper computer. You can’t do ‘real work’ on a tablet. Why didn’t you just buy an M1 MacBook Air? Why didn’t you build your own PC?
Well Hello! My name is Carl. I am forty something years old. I am a Lab Technician at a University in the UK. And I use the iPad Pro as my main work computer.
It was never supposed to be this way. Like everyone else in a modern workplace I have (or had) a Windows PC that largely ticked all the boxes.
I work in a Construction Materials laboratory and in any one week I might be using metrology to test material samples, helping students manufacture Architectural models, setting up lab classes, custom building equipment for research, liaising with commercial partners…
