[mark_l_watson]

I sort-of agree with the author. I have an iPad mini 4 and an iPad Pro, and because of the form factor I try to do as much as possible on an iPad, even SSHing to servers to do bits of work, stuff that would be better with a real keyboard. If I do use a laptop it is usually at my desk with a humongous screen when I am programming.

Then there is stuff for which an iPad is better: learning Haskell using the Haskell App with any Kindle Haskell book open (comfortable reading and it takes only a second to try a code snippet or exercise in the App; doing research with notes going to Keep; some writing (where I spend much more time thinking than typing).

I feel like I am going against the trend of doing everything on a smartphone or a laptop. When I travel, just taking the iPad mini 4 is perfect (again, if I need to, I can code SSHing to a server).