I mean… if you try to use them as a hammer, the iPad’s gonna be more effective if you use the edge and not the front or back face. It’s made of fairly high grade aluminum.
Ipads absolutely are powerful enough to work as real computers. They're just hobbled by artificial restrictions in their OS. Comparing them to real computers to point that out is perfectly valid.
Exactly my point. Here you have a touchscreen computer with orders of magnitude faster processor, many times the memory but can only be used for Apple approved usages and you have a laptop past its sweet sixteen which can be used for anything you want and can be used as a fairly decent development device
Ye but it's very obvious Apple hates this as have you seen the effort you need to get it work after iOS17? Not everyone has a Mac and at that point just use it instead of the iPad.
Win in what way?
We put them in a ring and see who wins. We did that when the first iPad came out.
The fight's still ongoing.
Shoulda posted this in c/programminghumor
I mean… if you try to use them as a hammer, the iPad’s gonna be more effective if you use the edge and not the front or back face. It’s made of fairly high grade aluminum.
But then again the thinkpad will probably still work after being hammered on
Just generally win
My only use case would be selling it.
Lies. Deceptions.
Judging a fish by his ability to climb trees. Ipads are great for taking notes or drawing, especially if you are on the fly.
Apple does have it's use cases so does Gnu/Linux. Stop being so simple-minded.
Ipads absolutely are powerful enough to work as real computers. They're just hobbled by artificial restrictions in their OS. Comparing them to real computers to point that out is perfectly valid.
Exactly my point. Here you have a touchscreen computer with orders of magnitude faster processor, many times the memory but can only be used for Apple approved usages and you have a laptop past its sweet sixteen which can be used for anything you want and can be used as a fairly decent development device
Main usecase is
You can also buy them to proudly show an apple-shaped brand at your local Starbucks.
Competing with a notepad and pen for hundreds of times more...
Yeah then buy that but stop raining on the parade just because you don't enjoy advantages of digital note taking 🤷🏻
When you consider your freedom, the good old thinkpad is better. And even better if compatible with GNU Boot 😁
Amen
Depends on the contest. Running fruity OSes? iPad. Rebuilding civilization after the technopacalpse wipes out Apple? ThinkPad!
Neither can fight, so a boring draw. Still better than a Jake Paul fight.
I love this because these are literally my two primary personal computing devices. It’s a kind of yin / yang dualism that I really enjoy.
Performance wise the iPad wins, but on programming the Linux laptop wins
Also I don't think the iPad was made for programming so there's that too
Performance-wise the iPad can't even use it due to the highly limited software
Because there is no programming software in the iPad
That being said, just use a laptop at this point
JITter? What's that gotta do with this?
Just in Time compilation. iPad cannot run for example a shell very fast and cannot do several other things
Ye but it's very obvious Apple hates this as have you seen the effort you need to get it work after iOS17? Not everyone has a Mac and at that point just use it instead of the iPad.