[makeitdouble]

> I think I should just take the MacBook Air with me.

This is the core differenciator: people who don’t take a MBA with them will benefit from the product.

And there can be so many reasons. Obviously not everyone buys laptops. Or they might not want to bring the work laptop on a trip but still have an option to do some coding by just pairing a keyboard. Or they hate the laptop keyboard and bring an external keyboard with them anyway. Or really love iOS and prefer the iPad. Or they killed a laptop screen when bringing it around on a tough trip and don’t want to do that again. Or they have cellular on the iPad.

[uuyi]

All of these problems are working back from the solution to the problem. Life has taught me to start at the problems.

[ericlewis]

Problem: don’t want to bring thing that must be attached to a keyboard at all times to be useful.

Solution: iPad.

[uuyi]

That's a terrible causal relation.

Run a KT decision analysis. The iPad will never come out as the device you actually end up writing code on if you're honest with yourself.

[jll29]

What I see a lot at airports is: people traveling with ALL of the following:

- mobile phone

- iPad

- Laptop

So each time another smaller device gets invented people just _add_ it instead of the smaller devices replacing the bigger ones. So despite all the technical integration, the weight of people's hand luggage (gadgets + adaptors) actually goes up, not down!

[mbreese]

I’m about to get on a plane with all of those and a remarkable tablet.

The iPad is the one I’m considering leaving, but I think I’d rather watch media on the iPad than try to bring an Apple TV.

I tried to replace the computer with the iPad, and even with the app listed above, it just wasn’t there for me.

[ericlewis]

Yeah exactly and each device has a time & place imo too, while I said travel without - I typically don't. But when it comes to the device I can wield in a given scenario it absolutely depends, having the options is great.

[ericlewis]

Uh, well.. I do. Do I need to show you my project files to prove it?

[makeitdouble]

Half of these are the problem I faced and solved with the bigger iPad Pro. I prefer it to my macbook for a lot of things, and that’s what I’m typing this response on.

Would you have the same approach to desktops vs laptops ? You would sure acknowledge that a 5k screen tower desktop on Gb LAN, TBs of disk space, no compromise CPU, powerful graphics card with an excelent keyboard is a better coding machine than a MBA in the absolute. But I don’t see someone explaining using a laptop for the same tasks as “working back from the solution to the problem”. Different form factors have different trade-offs and their pro and con.