I’ve just given up on my M1 Pro MBP in favour of my M1 iPad Pro with detachable keyboard case.
I’m very excited to see if the rumours about a proper DE for iPadOS when attached to a monitor comes true.
I don’t want to carry my laptop around. It’s too big and heavy. I want to carry one device that I can use as a portable device, but also use as a full fat device when I have appropriate peripherals, without having to worry about some kind of Cloud sync instead.
I don’t want to have to wait for state to sync between multiple devices. I want a single device that can do literally everything. The M1 iPad Pro with detachable keyboard (Logitech Folio) and Pencil is dangerously close.
Now if it could run a Linux environment that wasn’t horrifically slow due to Apple’s obscene limitations (see iSH, which is incredible, but unfortunately, slow), that would solve everything.
For now, I depend on Cloud VMs instead, which falls over once my connectivity becomes poor.
What situations exist where a potential user would have access to desktop peripherals, but also don't have access to a laptop?