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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] Karkitoo@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago

We put them in a ring and see who wins. We did that when the first iPad came out.

The fight's still ongoing.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Shoulda posted this in c/programminghumor

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean… if you try to use them as a hammer, the iPad’s gonna be more effective if you use the edge and not the front or back face. It’s made of fairly high grade aluminum.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

But then again the thinkpad will probably still work after being hammered on

[–] banghida@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh, the iPad easily. It would get far more use by more people.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 months ago

My only use case would be selling it.

[–] banghida@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Lies. Deceptions.

[–] K4mpfie@feddit.org 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Judging a fish by his ability to climb trees. Ipads are great for taking notes or drawing, especially if you are on the fly.

Apple does have it's use cases so does Gnu/Linux. Stop being so simple-minded.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ipads absolutely are powerful enough to work as real computers. They're just hobbled by artificial restrictions in their OS. Comparing them to real computers to point that out is perfectly valid.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Exactly my point. Here you have a touchscreen computer with orders of magnitude faster processor, many times the memory but can only be used for Apple approved usages and you have a laptop past its sweet sixteen which can be used for anything you want and can be used as a fairly decent development device

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

You can also buy them to proudly show an apple-shaped brand at your local Starbucks.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Competing with a notepad and pen for hundreds of times more...

[–] K4mpfie@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah then buy that but stop raining on the parade just because you don't enjoy advantages of digital note taking 🤷🏻

[–] neox_@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you consider your freedom, the good old thinkpad is better. And even better if compatible with GNU Boot 😁

[–] amon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Depends on the contest. Running fruity OSes? iPad. Rebuilding civilization after the technopacalpse wipes out Apple? ThinkPad!

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

Neither can fight, so a boring draw. Still better than a Jake Paul fight.

[–] geoff@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

I love this because these are literally my two primary personal computing devices. It’s a kind of yin / yang dualism that I really enjoy.

[–] N00b22@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Performance wise the iPad wins, but on programming the Linux laptop wins

Also I don't think the iPad was made for programming so there's that too

[–] amon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Performance-wise the iPad can't even use it due to the highly limited software

[–] N00b22@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Because there is no programming software in the iPad

That being said, just use a laptop at this point

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

JITter? What's that gotta do with this?

[–] amon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just in Time compilation. iPad cannot run for example a shell very fast and cannot do several other things