Can an iPad Replace My Laptop or Desktop Computer?

I have at least one student determined to use her iPhone. I’ll see how she makes out. I could not imagine typing in a term paper on an iPhone myself.

Supposedly MS 365 doesn’t have all the features of MS Office and the students won’t be able to do all of the work.

This I do know is true as I had an in-person class last semester and one kid would not use MS Office on the machines. He instead on using 365 online an he could not do half the assignment. Not that seemed to bother him :-)

“Supposedly MS 365 doesn’t have all the features of MS Office”

When we bought two new HP laprops last year they had Windows 10 and you had to”rent” 365. Horrid, dreadful 365 is a hot mess! I donated my laptop to DH for his astronomy. Then I ordered a Windows 7 refurbished laptop and installed Office 2003 on it with my well-worn CDs. Couldn’t be happier.

They must be smoking the sofa over there at MS R&D to come up with some of these ideas. “Let’s brainstorm to see how we can make our products worse.”

The author of this article misses the point entirely by claiming what he did and ignoring the level of what the REAL tests showed.

Thank you for finally conceding the accuracy of what I've been trying to tell you since my first post. You are finally getting there.

I can do most of what I want to do on iPad Pro12.9”. If it needs something I don’t have on it, I just VNC into Mac Mini (with multi-TB storage. For printing, printers are network capable. As a unix junkie, biggest shortfall is no shell. If there is an iPad shell would appreciate the info. For a keyboard, I have a bluetooth Brydge. I has most functions of a standard keyboard, just no trackpad. Because my fingers don’t work that well, I use a stylus(fits behind the ear nicely).

Thank you for finally conceding the accuracy of what I've been trying to tell you since my first post. You are finally getting there.

ROTFLMAO! Nice try at both denigrating me, my intelligence, and my data and links, and at the same time trying to change what your agenda was. . . But you miss by a mile. Everyone reading this thread knows what you were doing and knows who had the accurate data with links with the correct interpretation of those data and it wasn’t YOU.

What facts? You ignored mine.

Full version of Photoshop? Can you run Plugins (Ignored that) Memory limitations (Ignored that)? Some are open source, hence, not a full version (Ignored that).

Geekbench like another synthetic benchmark only measures how well the hardware runs THROUGH Geekbench (Ignored all that). The same way that 3dmark or other UL mark measures (All synthetic). Quality and versatility in terms of FPS and such is why 3D mark is *somewhat* (Emphasis) impartial.

What about storage space? Another Proprietary peripheral or cloud crap that id not BUILT IN. Laptops and desktops are more economical and upgradable compared to any Pad.

Ad homiens really, the only logical fallacy is a headline that states "I-Pad pro blows away laptops and desktops" which you support. I have all three (Since I am objective here) I can safely say you and your Apple propaganda are full of BS.

Never got around to NVIDIA, figures.

Not requiring proprietary peripherals means I can find cheaper 3rd party alternatives that do not play this upgrade scheme your company uses. Congratulations on matching the Xbones upgrade/new flashy IPAD, one of my desktops that is 8 years old that can be futher upgraded is a heck of lot powerful and versatile than what you are pimping.

Again, let me know when 4k Skyrim with mods, and open source is available.

Your arrogance completely ignores what hardware is all about in the end.

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