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I see a lot people bashing on how iPadOS is holding back the hardware of the iPad Pro. I totally understand where this train of thoughts is coming from. But how many of these people actually tried to use the iPad Pro to its fullest extent as the main computer? I suspect most of the people here are accustomed to MacOS and never really dug iPadOS for productivity for extended periods of time.

Besides, the iPad Pro is really not designed nor advertised as replacement for MacBook. They have very different audiences in mind. Of course it sucks for the desktop tasks that MacOS was built for. But the iPad Pro beats the Mac for artists, students, and researchers in most tasks.

I’ve been using an iPad Pro for all of my work as a mathematical physicist for many years. I think the iPadOS is absolutely fantastic for what I do on a daily basis: editing and reading PDFs (LiquidText), writing with LaTeX (TeX Writer), opening a ton of Safari tabs. It can even do an okay job on editing videos (LumaFusion), photos (Darkroom), writing codes (Textastic, Working Copy). Of course it’s not the best for all of these things, but it excels on where the MacOS sucks, and vice versa.

As for the new iPad Pro announcement, I absolutely don’t think the M1 is a waste. I can totally see myself utilising the extra RAM to stop Safari tabs from unloading, to working on larger workspace in LiquidText, to editing more tracks in LumaFusion, and etc.