[APock]

> Nowaadatys the iPad is also pretty much a PC

This is completely untrue and the fact that people think being able to connect a mouse and keyboard make it a PC is appaling.

The complete OS experience is terrible for anything other than the most absolute basic tasks, and there is not hardware way around that.

[theshrike79]

YMMV and you do need to change your habits a bit, which is anathema to the HN crowd.

"It can't run my custom i3wm setup and doom-emacs and I can't even cargo install stuff on it, completely unusable!"

I could, and have, done my work just with an iPad and an external keyboard. Blink shell[0] to SSH into a remote environment. VS Code or a similar browser-based editor for code[1].

Of course a full 16" laptop would be better, but before the M1 the battery life was nothing near what the iPad could bring.

[0] https://blink.sh [1] https://vscode.dev

[LinAGKar]

So then you're still using a PC, but remotely

[theshrike79]

Cloud a.k.a Someone Else's Computer, yes =)

The difference is that I'm not lugging around a huge power hungry CPU.

[kcplate]

> The complete OS experience is terrible for anything other than the most absolute basic tasks, and there is not hardware way around that

Your opinion. If my work laptop dies, I’ll likely requisition an 12.9 IPad Pro with cellular as a replacement, and with my iPad Pro 10.5 for personal and will be the happiest person on this earth. It’s just the best and most trouble free device/computer I have owned and used in over 45 years of using all manners and flavors of personal computing devices.