I figure I need a MacBook for coding. As I continue my slow coding trek, I assumed that I need a Mac in order to do that. However, I’m still at the level where I can get away with a Mac while I use online sources and apps to beef up my coding muscles. This week is going to prove it.
I will be having a change of scenery as I am staying closer to work so we do not have to suffer the Los Angeles traffic. LA is flat and you have to drive pretty much everywhere you go. This morning, I packed my wife’s MacBook Air, I was about to put my 12” Macbook into my bag when I realized that I have been doing a lot of work on the iPad mini and the iPad Pro over the weekend.
Over the weekend, I did the following in terms of productivity:
- Research products
- Sketched some artwork
- Writing
- Used Numbers (Apple’s spreadsheet) and Google Sheets (Google’s spreadsheet)
- Worked on online store (Yup, starting a hobby to learn how e-commerce works. What better way than to create an online store)
- Coding lessons
- Reading up on materials relating to AI, coding, and online sales
- Edited photos and videos
- Wrote a short story
Aside from those productive tasks, I also read a Batman comic, writing in my journal, and watched movies. All of this was on the iPad.
In the coming week, I think I can continue to do all of the above without having to use the Macbook for any of this. Some tasks couple be easier on the Mac but others like sketching with the Apple Pencil and reading on the go is definitely either the Macbook is not capable of or convenient. Despite the Macbook being light and mobile, I like have to use both hands while propping it up while I can hold the iPad in one hand while reading on the couch or bed.
And this is on a 2019 iPad mini. I imagine I can do pretty much the same thing if I decided to upgrade to the 2021 iPad mini or even the Pro at some point in the future. That’s another line of thought for another time, perhaps later this week.
And with iPadOS 15, my iPad mini is even more amazing. I’ll be updating how things are with the mini. By the way, speaking of coding, Apple is supposed to release a version of Playgrounds that lets users submit apps into the App Store. I cannot wait to try it out.
The question I’m faced with in the future is whether I need a Mac anymore. I am sure Apple is faced with that dilemma internally.
