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I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I’ve got this little tablet…you know how so many people turn an iPad into a crappy laptop by adding a keyboard cover to it? Well Lenovo turned a laptop into a crappy iPad by making the hinge a floppy skin flap with a magnetic pogo pin connector. I intended it as a little computer I can use in the wood shop, I wanted something fanless and preferably with a removable keyboard so it wouldn’t be destroyed by sawdust that can run FreeCAD natively.

I have an 11" M1 iPad Pro with a Logitech keyboard case. It was intended to be my "laptop". Clearly that didn't work out, as Apple hath decreed that running full-blown VMs on hardware that's more than capable of doing so is not allowed on the iPad, despite the fact that the same hardware runs Mac OS in the Macbook line.

I have a Thinkpad T14 G1 now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You didn't buy it intending to run VMs on it without checking that it could actually run VMs did you? haha

I get your point though - iPad Pros have absolutely killer hardware that is let down by iPadOS. I would own one of the latest ones if it ran MacOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Noooo lmao, I bought it because I had the means and I thought I deserved to buy myself a nice tablet for once, instead of the shitty Samsung A-series or cheap Kindles I'd been attempting to poke and prod at... So when I heard about the M1 going into the iPad, I jumped at it. The "potential" was a bonus.

Now, it's just a glorified youtube machine that occasionally sees OBD-II usage for my cars. Which my Pixel, or a shitty Samsung A-series, or a Kindle can also do.

cue RCR deep voice BUT IT'S GOT A STYLUS AND A KEYBOARD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I did the iPad-only thing for a year back in 2019/20 and while it was fine, I spent much of the time low-key irritated by the shit I had to jump through hoops for. Shit that a regular computer can just do.

By the end of my experiment it was abundantly clear that Apple had 0 interest in making iPadOS more useful for anything more than whatever its apps could do. Five years on and my opinion hasn’t changed. I still use an iPad (mini), but mostly because it was a gift which comes in handy for note taking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I barely use my iPad these days. I'll pull it out every once in a while, like if I'm sick in bed and wanna watch youtube for a few hours without holding my phone, but otherwise, yeah, iPads are kinda useless. They even suck at filling out PDFs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, an iPad can be used for way more than the average punter will do with theirs. I used to broadcast my radio show with mine, using a mini as a midi controller for my mic. It was pretty cool.

But yeah, for all the workarounds and hoop jumping I had to do, Mixxx could do it all on a regular computer, for free.

So these days mine is a social media / note taker / third screen for my Mac. Very much not worth the £600 Apple are rinsing for this thing. I can’t imagine how disappointing it must have been to shell out for an M1 Pro in the belief that Apple were about to beef up iPadOS. Then they…didn’t.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I can’t imagine how disappointing it must have been to shell out for an M1 Pro in the belief that Apple were about to beef up iPadOS. Then they…didn’t.

Yep. I paid ~$1200 for it and the Logitech keyboard case, right after it came out in 2021. First brand-new Apple device I bought for myself. And it is definitely the last.