The article reflects the author's struggle to adapt from a MacBook Pro to an M2 iPad Pro as their main computing device. Despite both devices sharing components, the differences in operating systems and user interfaces hinder the iPad's functionality as a laptop replacement. The author highlights how decades of computer usage have created strong expectations for keyboard and terminal access, which the iPad's design does not fully accommodate, leading to a sense of incompleteness in its computing capabilities.
Any computer that can't offer me a terminal window, root access, and the ability to type "python" to get into a REPL shell feels fake - an incomplete simulation of a real computer.
Operating systems therefore look like another reason I can't make the iPad my main machine. I've written about the M2 iPad Pro and M2 MacBook Air sharing many components yet running different OSes.
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