Okay, it’s already been a year since I wrote the last one about “Can a tablet, your next PC?”.
While Apple released the latest iPad with Stage Manager, does it make a laptop more like a laptop, or, a replacement for your laptop? Certainly not, but, it still has a chance.
I’m only gonna talk about iPad this time.
While productivity capability is what people might think of the point that makes a tablet - a laptop, is the latest update really meeting people’s requirements of replacing a laptop?
It is probably, yes, or no. Yes, for the stage manager and multi-window support, as the multi-monitor setup, does (may) improve your workflow by opening things up more, which let you reference things more.
No, for practicality. iPad in this situation is like a limited Mac Mini, but running iPadOS, and still BYODKM(Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard & Mouse)(yes you don't really need to prepare a separate display unless you're buying a 12.9" iPad or it's kinda painful).
Those works that only the iPad can perform, are the things integrated with Apple Pencil. However, when you are using Apple Pencil, you are kind of throwing away the BYODKM workflow. Between these paradigms is the glitch that using an iPad would feel.
After all, it's still an iPad. Whether choosing what form factors, that's indeed the question that you need to think about more than twice before you buy either, depending on your use case. iPad is yet the limited iPad, may not run the thing you need, or run it pretty well.
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