Problem: don’t want to bring thing that must be attached to a keyboard at all times to be useful.

Solution: iPad.

What I see a lot at airports is: people traveling with ALL of the following:

- mobile phone

- iPad

- Laptop

So each time another smaller device gets invented people just _add_ it instead of the smaller devices replacing the bigger ones. So despite all the technical integration, the weight of people's hand luggage (gadgets + adaptors) actually goes up, not down!

I’m about to get on a plane with all of those and a remarkable tablet.

The iPad is the one I’m considering leaving, but I think I’d rather watch media on the iPad than try to bring an Apple TV.

I tried to replace the computer with the iPad, and even with the app listed above, it just wasn’t there for me.

Yeah exactly and each device has a time & place imo too, while I said travel without - I typically don't. But when it comes to the device I can wield in a given scenario it absolutely depends, having the options is great.

Uh, well.. I do. Do I need to show you my project files to prove it?

Half of these are the problem I faced and solved with the bigger iPad Pro. I prefer it to my macbook for a lot of things, and that’s what I’m typing this response on.

Would you have the same approach to desktops vs laptops ? You would sure acknowledge that a 5k screen tower desktop on Gb LAN, TBs of disk space, no compromise CPU, powerful graphics card with an excelent keyboard is a better coding machine than a MBA in the absolute. But I don’t see someone explaining using a laptop for the same tasks as “working back from the solution to the problem”. Different form factors have different trade-offs and their pro and con.