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Those kinds of laptops/tablets are great for one reason: no heating components under keyboard. I hate "heated keyboards". I hope Apple will at some point allow to install macOS on iPads. Seems like it's possible, until that moment it'll be only consumption/sensors input device which is a shame. Unfortunately not a programmer machine.

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Reading your comment I realised I actually love "heated keyboards"... I often lay my hands on my laptop to warm up cold fingers :)

I did development for Github on an iPad for a while while my Macbook Pro was getting serviced. If you look around the threads here you'll hear from others who have also done development on an iPad.

it's certainly lighter weight than developing on a mac pro (understatement!), but for web development, especially in a n environment where you have staging environments to host services... It gets the job done.

And while this is a matter of taste, when I was working remote, I preferred a lighter, smaller machine for going to cafés.

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