![]() ![]() I was lucky enough to have an LG Ultrafine 4K display in my possession for use with the MacBook Pro. But bear in mind: the cheapest 2020 8th-gen iPad still has the old form-factor and a Lightning port, making it incompatible with some of the following. Note 2: The new iPad Air now features most of the laptop-like abilities of its Pro brother therefore, I’ll only use the term “iPad” in the following. I’ll try to provide different options as well as keep some focus on open-source software. Note 1: This is merely a shoutout to great products I’m using daily and isn’t sponsored. What started as just a 9 to 5 setup challenge, not the other way around, is now much more than that. Fear not, dear reader, we’ll try to rely on tools that are native or at least feel native on the iPad Pro, not just cheap Teamviewer-ing. The answer is mostly through remote access. While I do spend some time with such creative apps, how am I supposed to maintain my personal webpage, write code for my Raspberry Pi, or create CAD models for 3D printing? Yet the question remained: how would I continue the work on side-projects, whether they be software or hardware? There is a lot of talk these days about how LumaFusion is real competition to Adobe Premiere, or that Affinity Photo has nothing to fear from desktop Photoshop. ![]() While I loved the feeling of knowing that I could open and run anything on the MacBook Pro - aka a conventional laptop - the idea of moving solely to the efficient machine that is the iPad Pro was appealing for various reasons. ![]() Since I transitioned from working all day on my personal MacBook Pro to receiving a work computer for a new engineering position, I decided to go for the only financially wise thing: selling my beloved 16" MacBook Pro to live off the 2018 iPad Pro I had around for iOS app development as my main computer for my personal life. ![]()
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