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I am looking at getting one but don’t know which one is best. Have a laptop now and want to move to Apple as I have iPhone and a iPad Air so want it all to link. But I don’t know which one would suit be best. Am I better off with a Mac is I have a iPad already?
iPad Air 2, iPadOS 13
Only you can decide which is best for your needs. I would suggest the MacBook Pro as you already have an iPad. The computer will have more uses than the iPad, but only you know what you expect from your devices.
Only you can decide which is best for your needs. I would suggest the MacBook Pro as you already have an iPad. The computer will have more uses than the iPad, but only you know what you expect from your devices.
We can't tell you what you need.
Only you can decide this.
A full computer, like a Mac, currently, will always be better than any iPad.
What year and model iPad Air do you own?
The newest 10.5 inch screen iPad Air 3 can run the latest and greatest iPadOS version.
The newest iPad Air 3 is more powerful than the 6 and 7-year old earlier iPad Air models and has some features that old iPads do not have.
I have the IPad Air 2
I am looking at doing editing of football sessions and games I have coached, use iMovie a lot on my iPad to do it. Also do some analysing sessions with my players.
use excel for work and have things on a hard drive that I would need to connect to what ever I buy.
that’s the main things I use it for so it’s finding out what would be best to do it.
would be good to go in and speak to Apple but with all this going on may be a while lol so any help and advice to help me decide be great.
Most of us regulars will tell you we love our iPads. And with iPadOS 13.5 now permitting the use of mice or trackpads, iPad is certainly getting closer to being a laptop. But it is still NOT a laptop and since you already have an iPad, I would recommend if you want to have all members in the family, a Macbook Pro is the way to go.
I have iPad Pro and the new Magic Keyboard with Track Pad coming in the first week of June (fingers crossed). I can do a lot on it, but it's not yet a laptop replacement and won't replace my laptop in the near future.
That’s fair enough, what laptop do you have if you don’t mind me asking is it a Mac? My iPad does a lot of what I want but like you said isn’t a laptop and I use a hard drive which my iPad can’t use with no connection for it. And don’t know of it’s easier to do iMovie on it.
You can. But the company I work for doesn't have very advanced systems and it just makes my work life simpler to have a Windows laptop.
That’s why it’s made me think as I was set on a Mac then the new advert with the iPad Pro going on a stand with a keyboard and that I was thinking well is that better more portable. Made me think lol
I don't have a Mac. I need Windows for work systems, so my Laptop if an HP Spectre 360 512 GB SSD.
So can you not run Windows on a Mac?
iPad Pro or Mac
