Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by _fat_santa on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:44AM (#36537045)

And if you're using it primarily as web browser you can get a Chromebook that will do the job for a fraction of the cost.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by refulgentis on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:55AM (#36537263)

This is an excellent & undervalued point: chromeos is basically an easier to use and maintain iPad Pro at half the price, with a performant Linux container

I’m really pleased with my $4K MacBook Pro M2, really amazing device. but after 3-4 years of chromeos before that, I’d trade it for a $1000 i7 Chromebook in a heartbeat, if it wasn’t for darn local LLMs. They’re not even good or fast but I need them professionally.

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Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake by mdhb on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:01PM (#36539434)

Will also second this. I’ve used on old linux box with ChromeOS flex as my daily driver doing fullstack web and mobile development for a bit over a year now and it’s easily the best desktop experience I’ve ever had compared to Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Highly underrated indeed.

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