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Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by ClumsyPilot on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:12AM (#37271714)
> The iPad is a much better tablet than the Surface

but useless as a computer?

I needed to apply for a visa -It can't even handle that simple task!

Like all I had to do, is collaste togesther a few dozen documents (bank statements, utility bills, etc.), merge all them into PDfs and organise pages cronologically. Couldn't even do that.

whats the point of having a great processor in an iPad if it's all wasted.

This is a deal braker for me, handling official documents is a normal thing normal people have to do every day.

Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by nicbou on Saturday August 26, 2023 @10:57AM (#37273458)
That's the point. I tried unifying those devices and couldn't. Now I carry both.
Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by blokey on Saturday August 26, 2023 @11:59AM (#37273979)
That sounds odd. Even without installing any apps from the AppStore it can do that.

Open the PDF (or print the webpage to PDF if needed), tap to insert other PDFs into that one (so assembling / merging the documents).

Drag any pages into the order you want, save the file.

What’s missing?

Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by ubermonkey on Saturday August 26, 2023 @10:01PM (#37278783)
>but useless as a computer?

LOLNO. Many, many people use an iPad as their primary or only nonphone computer.

Sounds like you had a tool chain problem, not an iPad problem.