Mac Power Users episode 355, the iPad as Mac replacement. Hello everyone this is David Sparks along with my pal Katie Floyd. How are you today

Katie Floyd? I'm well David. How are you?

Excellent.

This is a show we've been talking about now for several months.

And I'm glad we're finally able to publish it because I've been thinking about this a lot.

Apple lately has been trying to sell the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement and the question is,

is it a laptop replacement and I've spent a lot of time using one as a laptop

replacement for several months. I know you're using your iPad Pro quite a bit too and

to give you the spoiler I guess I would say the answer to that question really depends.

But the point of this show is to kind of get into the weeds a little bit and talk about where the

iPad works and does not work in the role of a traditional Mac.

Before we get started, there's a couple kind of nuances to this show.

There's a group of folks out there who are no longer using using their Mac and they're just using an iPad

Federico Vitichi famously has been doing that for a while now and and there's really

those people fall into two categories you You've got the folks that are doing

it just to be on the sharp end of the stick, which is like Federico. I mean he's just trying to figure

out, I think he's trying to prove a point and also just he prefers to work in iOS. But there's also a group of people out there that are doing this because they have less

stringent computer needs. A good example of that is my sister who is never going to listen to an

episode of the Mac power users in our life. That's so sad. You know, my family

they just they don't get it. They don't get what a nerd I am. And my family doesn't either. But either way, she has had Max for many, many years and she was using my iPad pro to edit photos at a family event about six months ago and then when her

birthday came three months ago she said okay I just want to get an iPad pro

and I don't I don't need my Mac anymore she came to that conclusion on her

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