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Re:Working on iPad by zigzaggy on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:22AM (#23651157)
You’re being downvoted but this is probably more true than most people here want to admit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Thinkpadhead myself - I have “a few.” But time and again my 11 year old’s iPad “just works” while I’m hacking on my Linux and the rest of my family comes to me with various Windows problems.

As the extended family’s bonafide IT admin, I looooong for the day when business apps are so effective on iOS that I can retire everyone’s W10 machine!

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Re:Working on iPad by D13Fd on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:30AM (#23651215)
I dunno. I love the iPad, but my wife still works on her 2009 Thinkpad T400s 8+ hours a day.

I keep trying to buy her a new one but she doesn’t want it, it still works fine.

Thinkpads can really last these days.

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Re:Working on iPad by zigzaggy on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:24AM (#23651667)
I love my Thinkpads. And only one of them is new (I bought the AMD version and I love it). I should have clarified that I was speaking more about the non-tech's perspective on something that "just works" versus something that needs regular tweaking, restarts, updates that halt all other operations for some time, and all the other joys of living with a Microsoft OS that we've learned to live with.
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