From my experience tablets and laptops are completely different use cases. I have a Surface and bring it with me on business trips. It's very light weight and the battery lasts a good long time. The keyboard is...not bad...but nothing to write home about (no pun intended). It seems well suited for things like watching Netflix on the plane or casual web surfing. Typing up emails or long form documents? Not so much. But for things you tap or swipe it's fine.
A laptop is a productivity machine. I need an excellent keyboard and accurate mouse. A large multi-gesture touch pad is great too. Basically a Macbook Pro or similarly outfitted Windows laptop.
Tablets have come a ways but I still see them as more toys than productivity machines, at least for the kind of work I do. Multitasking in iOS is primitive at best. Mouse support is lacking compared to PCs. I haven't tried a tablet with an external monitor so I can't comment on that.
I like that Apple is adding faster processors in the iPads but, for me, I don't see them replacing laptops anytime soon.
From my experience tablets and laptops are completely different use cases. I have a Surface and bring it with me on business trips. It's very light weight and the battery lasts a good long time. The keyboard is...not bad...but nothing to write home about (no pun intended). It seems well suited for things like watching Netflix on the plane or casual web surfing. Typing up emails or long form documents? Not so much. But for things you tap or swipe it's fine.
A laptop is a productivity machine. I need an excellent keyboard and accurate mouse. A large multi-gesture touch pad is great too. Basically a Macbook Pro or similarly outfitted Windows laptop.
Tablets have come a ways but I still see them as more toys than productivity machines, at least for the kind of work I do. Multitasking in iOS is primitive at best. Mouse support is lacking compared to PCs. I haven't tried a tablet with an external monitor so I can't comment on that.
I like that Apple is adding faster processors in the iPads but, for me, I don't see them replacing laptops anytime soon.
While I agree (and so would Apple) that laptops still are very useful, this video might surprise you:
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From my experience tablets and laptops are completely different use cases. I have a Surface and bring it with me on business trips. It's very light weight and the battery lasts a good long time. The keyboard is...not bad...but nothing to write home about (no pun intended). It seems well suited for things like watching Netflix on the plane or casual web surfing. Typing up emails or long form documents? Not so much. But for things you tap or swipe it's fine.
A laptop is a productivity machine. I need an excellent keyboard and accurate mouse. A large multi-gesture touch pad is great too. Basically a Macbook Pro or similarly outfitted Windows laptop.
Tablets have come a ways but I still see them as more toys than productivity machines, at least for the kind of work I do. Multitasking in iOS is primitive at best. Mouse support is lacking compared to PCs. I haven't tried a tablet with an external monitor so I can't comment on that.
I like that Apple is adding faster processors in the iPads but, for me, I don't see them replacing laptops anytime soon.
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From my experience tablets and laptops are completely different use cases. I have a Surface and bring it with me on business trips. It's very light weight and the battery lasts a good long time. The keyboard is...not bad...but nothing to write home about (no pun intended). It seems well suited for things like watching Netflix on the plane or casual web surfing. Typing up emails or long form documents? Not so much. But for things you tap or swipe it's fine.
A laptop is a productivity machine. I need an excellent keyboard and accurate mouse. A large multi-gesture touch pad is great too. Basically a Macbook Pro or similarly outfitted Windows laptop.
Tablets have come a ways but I still see them as more toys than productivity machines, at least for the kind of work I do. Multitasking in iOS is primitive at best. Mouse support is lacking compared to PCs. I haven't tried a tablet with an external monitor so I can't comment on that.
I like that Apple is adding faster processors in the iPads but, for me, I don't see them replacing laptops anytime soon.
While I agree (and so would Apple) that laptops still are very useful, this video might surprise you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]