I've wanted to do this ever since I bought a 12.9-inch iPad Pro last year.
You see, I wanted to believe all the ads[1] that tell me an iPad Pro is actually a computer that's trimmed itself a little and had a makeover and Botox at the Cupertino Salon.
I also wanted to believe that I could travel even more lightly than I do today. Because we all want to lighten our many burdens, don't we?
Could my iPad Pro make me forget about my wonderful, but getting-a-touch-dowdy-as-Apple-hasn't-really-updated-it-for-years, MacBook Air? After all, it costs as much.
Let's open it and find out.
I've always used the iPad Pro for watching movies, videos and occasionally reading media. I know that Tim Cook says[2] he only travels with an iPad Pro for a computer, but I suspect his emails often contain fewer than 15 words, of which regular appearances are made by do, it and now.
I get paid for, um, lyricism.
Here's the first problem. I write on my lap. Isn't that what laptops are for? I often put my feet up on some kind of ottoman or animal (kidding), bring my knees up and balance the lower front edge of my MacBook Air on my stomach. (Writers are weird. Please discuss.)
Yet try and unfold your iPad Pro official Apple keyboard onto your lap and the screen folds toward you.
The base isn't solid. It's in two parts, after all.
My traditional form of typing looks like it's out.
So I realize I have to put it on a flat surface. (My thighs have, er, high muscle definition, don't you know. Flat, they're not.)
I've now, therefore, perched