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Re:Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream by bryanmgreen on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:57PM (#23001700)
It's getting a bit ridiculous how powerful the iPad is getting. Not necessarily in a bad way, I'm just confused about the use case.

For anyone with personal real-world experience, what convinces you to buy an iPad Pro + Keyboard over an Air or vice-versa?

Re:Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream by walterbell on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:05PM (#23001762)
Battery life and instant-on. Many speakers/microphones for conferencing. Same apps as iPhone. Just Works. LumaFusion, Flipboard.
Re:Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream by samatman on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:13PM (#23001833)
It won't replace my laptop, but a touchscreen PDF reader with an excellent stylus and build-in cellular modem is a compelling piece of kit already.

Add in a keyboard and touchpad that's good enough that I can fluently type on it, and I can imagine a lot of scenarios where I'd want to bring just it. Unfortunately most of them involve being able to leave my house and go somewhere else :/

I do need more control over the keyboard layout (see my other comment if curious), but will probably get this when that becomes possible.

Re:Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream by paulcole on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:28PM (#23002325)
I use a computer at work. I don’t use one at home.

I’ve been using an Air 2 since it launched in 2014. Added an Anker keyboard a few years ago and really like typing on it instead of the on-screen keyboard. Made doing crosswords and other stuff a lot easier.

Decided it was time to upgrade and figured I’d get the “best” and try to get another 6 years out of it.

Re:Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream by jshaqaw on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:40PM (#23003097)
Reading and document markup is much more pleasant for me as a tablet than sitting rigidly at a laptop.