iPad Pro

Enhance your iPad Pro experience All-in on iPad Pro

I’ve been wanting to do this for five years now and it’s finally happened. I sold my MacBook Pro to go all-in on iPad as my main personal computer. Yesterday, I packed my 2015 13″ Retina MacBook Pro back into its box and sent it off to a new owner.

People have lots of questions about this so I thought I would write a bit about the thinking and experimentation that went with this.

Firstly, some people thought when I tweeted about this that I meant the iPad Pro would be my only portable computer and that I would still have a desktop computer. Not so. My intention is that the iPad Pro will be my only personal computer.

What I mean by that is that 99% of my computing will be done on my iPad Pro or my iPhone.

There will always be Macs around but not one that I regularly sit down at and use for any task. I have a headless 2010 Mac mini that acts as a Plex server at home and a 2010 Mac Pro at school that we use for Apple Configurator. I can, of course, use these Macs but they’re not really set up as machines for me to work on. I suppose you could say I have access to Macs in the same way that I have access to a printer.

The introduction of multitasking in iOS 9 has made a significant difference to the way I work on iOS. I don’t need to rehearse the actual features here but suffice to say that I now find iOS extremely easy to get almost any task done. In some scenarios, it’s even better than the Mac. The iPad Pro was just the icing on the cake. It took everything that was good about iOS 9 on the iPad Air 2 and made it much, much better. The iPad Pro is fast, capable and packs a screen basically the same size as the laptop I just sold. This is how I want to work.