Can a tablet replace an office laptop ? My journey.

[kojack]

Well well well. It seems as if we are going to find out if my iPad can be used as a daily driver notebook. My dell laptop crapped the bed yesterday morning. That’s 3 in the past month. Note to everyone, DON’T BUY DELL. 

 

My main laptop died, my linux system died and my wife’s dell laptop died. Just waiting for my desktop to croak now. Thank dog I never bought a g series for my son. My new system will be arm based for sure. Not sure if I am going to the dark side with a new MacBook Air or a surface laptop. 

 

I will have to wait until the new year either way so The iPad 10th gen will be getting a work out. I will be replacing my current Logitech keyboard with the new zagg version for better keyboard work. 

[Kitje]

32 minutes ago, kojack said:

Well well well. It seems as if we are going to find out if my iPad can be used as a daily driver notebook. My dell laptop crapped the bed yesterday morning. That’s 3 in the past month. Note to everyone, DON’T BUY DELL. 

 

My main laptop died, my linux system died and my wife’s dell laptop died. Just waiting for my desktop to croak now. Thank dog I never bought a g series for my son. My new system will be arm based for sure. Not sure if I am going to the dark side with a new MacBook Air or a surface laptop. 

 

I will have to wait until the new year either way so The iPad 10th gen will be getting a work out. I will be replacing my current Logitech keyboard with the new zagg version for better keyboard work. 

To be honest if it was me for photography I'd be going Macbook Air/Pro. Not sure of those new Snapdragon Windows machines (ew no.) 

[Bullit]

3 DELL!!

[kojack]

2.5.  Got my linux machine back up and running again.  Dunno what happened there.

[kojack]

And it’s down again. Garbage. 

 

Thankfully, I got my iPad back working correctly after a borked beta update. I am back on release updates now and It’s going to be my main pc moving forward.   See how it goes. 

[Bullit]

Looking forward to your tablet PC voyage log 😀

[kojack]

On 9/29/2025 at 4:51 PM, Bullit said:

Looking forward to your tablet PC voyage log 😀

The iPad for what I have been doing is decent. There are a few things I cannot do or, don’t know how to do. But they are minor in nature. I am going to download lumafusion for video editing to see how it goes. 

 

[Kitje]

3 minutes ago, kojack said:

The iPad for what I have been doing is decent. There are a few things I cannot do or, don’t know how to do. But they are minor in nature. I am going to download lumafusion for video editing to see how it goes. 

 

Not DaVinci Resolve? I just saw it on the App Store.

[kojack]

I got my laptop back up and running. I did a "repair" on the system when it came up on the screen. Most time it's just a black screen but this time it booted to support assist repair. Dunno. Got me baffled. Seems software related as once it's up and running it works fine. 

[kojack]

Got my linux dell back running as well. i think it's a sleep function issue. Either way, I am so happy not to be typing on the logitech iPad keyboard.  That's the worst. No way I could do that full time.  My Linux box is an 11 inch dell 2 in 1 and the keyboard is way roomier than the keyboard for the iPad. I am happy for now that I have something other than the ipad. I could not see me using that full time for anything other than reading magazines.

 

I will be moving it to my son and selling his 9th gen to fund an acer iconia X12 tablet bundle. I am an android user so might as well steer into that skid. 

[Bullit]

I don't write more than an A4 page - most of the time i basically fill forms, spreadsheets, make notes - so for me button keyboards which btw i don't like don't bother me.