Even as a solo device, it offers more scope for most users than a MacBook – it’s wonderful to work with and use. In certain contexts, there’s nothing like it. However, do note that line ‘ the best tablet Apple or anyone else has ever made’.
#Mac airbook or ipad Pc
If you’re someone who likes focus (a major Apple theme of late), the two-up app limitation – and just one in full-screen most of the time – moves you far away from the relative chaos and distraction found on a desktop PC or Mac. If you’re a photo, music or video editor, you’ll be frustrated by the screen’s confines, but appreciate the means to escape from a desk and work wherever you please, on powerful hardware, directly interacting with your creations. If you’re a digital artist, you’ll love drawing with Apple Pencil.
#Mac airbook or ipad pro
In fact, the iPad reigns supreme in the right hands, particularly in its Pro incarnation. This action, notably, cannot be started on an iPad, which makes the iPad sound like an accessory. You sit your iPad next to a Mac, move the Mac cursor across to the iPad’s display (no set-up required), and can then control the iPad with your Mac’s keyboard, even dragging back documents and other content. Beyond finally making iPad multitasking coherent and adding a snazzy new feature to take notes whatever app you’re in, the standout iPad addition was Universal Control. This conclusion becomes apparent when you consider WWDC21’s iPadOS 15 announcements. What Apple wants is for you to buy an iPad and a Mac. But Apple seemingly doesn’t really want you using the iPad in this way, because it’s not a Mac. Your iPad work sits centrally in its 4:3 confines, flanked by black bars. There’s even a Thunderbolt port now, unlocking access to a wider ecosystem of hardware and blisteringly fast file transfers from external storage.īut then you plug the iPad Pro into an external monitor – even Apple’s £4,600 Pro Display XDR – and discover 99.9 per cent of apps don’t fill it. Or perhaps doing all those things simultaneously, like a true power user. The iPad Pro was no slouch before, but the combination of M1 and RAM provides headroom for the most demanding of apps, whether editing 4K video in LumaFusion, chaining together dozens of synths in a digital audio workstation, or crafting complex high-res multi-layered images in Affinity Photo.