An iPad Can Easily Replace Your Mac or PC

Although you’ll see different opinions about this across varying iOS-oriented, or more recently iPadOS, articles online, we’re here to tell you that the iPad can definitely be used as your only computer.

Irrespective of the opinion voiced by ZDNet, we believe the future for most casual users, which is most users, will be an iPad with the appropriate add-ons.

The iPad has come a long way since its introduction on April 3rd, 2010. It was quite an innovation then but its potential had merely been hinted at. Of course anyone who ventured over to an Apple store to check one out was instantly blown away (us included). But we could only imagine the power and flexibility to come.

Now, in 2019, much of the raw potential of this incredible computing device has been fulfilled. Witness the professional level apps available across such heretofore Mac-only domains such as photo editing, word processing, powerful gaming, video editing, and much more.

But wait, that’s great you say, but don’t take away my MacBook Pro. We say, why not? What can you do with a MacBook Pro that you can’t do with a properly configured iPad Pro? And there’s the key, a “properly configured” iPad Pro. And we’re not talking about Apple-made accessories.

Of course if you’re a pro using specific applications that require the raw power of a MacBook Pro that’s a horse of a different color. We’re not talking to you.

This is about all the Apple-ites out there who use social media apps, watch videos, open browsers and use Apple apps for light-duty work. We’re looking at you “typical user”.

So go ahead, be bold ditch the Mac, pick up an iPad Pro and trust us, you’ll never look back.

We paired our iPad Pro with a 360X Keyboard from YEKBEE, a great keyboard that won’t slow down touch typists with ill-placed keys like many of its competitors. Besides the key placement, not a trivial issue, we also really like the fact that it folds completely flat and lets you swing the iPad around so you have it back to being a pad, not a laptop.

The next thing we did was to turn on mouse capability by going to Settings/Accessibility/Touch and turn on “AssistiveTouch”. You then go to “Devices/Bluetooth Devices” and add your favorite bluetooth mouse. We used a Dell Travel Mouse just to be sure this capability wasn’t Apple-centric.

Once you do that you’ll see a spot that you can move around with the mouse and use it as if it was your finger tip. There’s also a white circle in the lower right side of your iPad that you click to go back to the home screen as well as to access other controls.

Since that dot is now your finger tip, you can click and hold to move things around, go from page to page of your apps, and pretty much anything that you would normally do with your finder directly on the iPad screen.

All in all it’s works great and makes using the iPad even easier for “desktop type work”, as easy as using a true laptop. To get rid of the white spot simple turn off “AssistiveTouch”.

From our day-to-day use, outside of any hardcore programming or image/video editing, we can hardly find anything we do that can’t be done perfectly well using an iPad. The mouse control gives you enough fine control for text editing and the combo of touch, virtual keyboard, real keyboard, and mouse opens up the iPad to be a much more productive device.

The bottom line is that for the vast majority of users, the iPad running iPadOS 13.2 or greater, paired with the right bluetooth keyboard and mouse makes for an extremely capable laptop replacement.

Well there you have it. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Source link:https://www.theiphoneappreview.com/2019/12/the-ipad-pro-can-and-will-replace-your-mac/

from : Mid Atlantic Consulting, Inc.