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I travel a good bit these days, and it usually involves at least one work day so I end up bringing my work MBP and my personal MBA. I've been thinking about getting an ipad in service of having less bulky electronics along for the ride. It's been a long time since I did any coding while travelling, so I think I can live without a full Unix at my fingertips for the occasional long weekend. I also do more hiking than I used to and am very fond of an app named GaiaGPS. I've used it on my phone for years, but I do like the idea of having a bigger display at hand for planning purposes when on camping/road trips. I've been doing this long enough to be comfortable with the fact that there's no such thing as "future proofing" computing hardware, but with the persistent rumors of a whole-line refresh/cleanup for ipads, I did want to wait for that to materialize -- I've been waiting on that since December and it getting pushed back to May made me grumpy. How do I even know this will work out well, anyhow? So I decided to lowball this and see if I'm happy with a not-up-to-date / mildly suboptimal setup. I snagged a used 5th gen Mini (with GPS) off ebay for $200 and dug a $15 no-name bluetooth mini keyboard out of my parts bin. They're currently living together in a neoprene laptop sleeve. I reckon that if noodling around with that pairing for the next few weeks (which will include one weekend trip) doesn't feel like a nightmare, then I'll probably be happy stepping up to something current when the new models come out.
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Jose Oquendo posted:May 7 is new iPad announcement day. I'm looking forward to it. My "is a tablet a good travel computing device for me?" experiment has gone far better than I expected. Of course the biggest reason to buy a new iPad is the rumor that iPadOS 18 will include a calculator. Gotta maximize your compatibility window!
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