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I have positive feelings towards both of these operating systems. I used to have an 11 inch Air before it was stolen from my car, and my wife has a 13 inch pro that's pretty great. At work my school uses a Chromebook deployment for the students and they're pretty excellent. The main beefs I have with Windows just don't exist on ChromeOS (trackpad is pretty good, machines are very snappy and always up to date). I have a gaming windows laptop but unless I fall back into WoW or DOTA or some similar E sports game I don't really see a 5 pound machine as very useful to me.

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In terms of what do I use my computer for any computer is somewhat supplementary to my main system which is

IPadOS is phenomenal

I’ve obviously not had all kinds of time to kick the tires but iPadOSes desktop class browsing is a god damned panacea for me.

When I bought my iPad Pro my school was a Microsoft shop with paper the definitive version of everything. If an administrator wanted to see my lesson plans she was asking for a binder they could look through. And my iPad was fine.

The Next school year we got Chromebooks and Google Apps, and I was like fine I’ll just use the apps in place of Office and well that sucked. The Quality of those apps is a lot lower than the MS office ones and even well below the web versions of those. Also we had an online curriculum that just wouldn’t sh

I've been toying with this thread for a bit. Is it too conspiratorial to think Google is making an awful iPad experience to push people to use the Web and ideally Chromebooks or at least Chrome).

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I bought a 9.7 inch iPad Pro with the smart keyboard when it came out and while my school still used MS stuff all was fine but then we got a 1:1 Chromebook deployment and were required to use all Google apps for our work. And oh no problem I'll just switch to their apps.

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But oh they're slow rolling all kinds of features in. Forms just isn't supported at all, and is a mess if you need two Google accounts. Drive, slides and sheets work together on the web so mu

This is really the biggest issue I have with the iPad. I really can’t efficiently work from home from my iPad in a way that any Mac, pc or Chromebook allows only because of Mobile Safari.

One of the main parts of my job amounts to edit a Google sheet describing how I will teach using resources on the web and Google Drive. Another major tool I have to use, an online curriculum (iready) that will just flatly say get a different browser.

Then in my personal life there are sites like Tumblr which works great on the web or phone but aren’t really great on iPad.

For me the primary distinction between when I grab my iPhone versus my iPad is do I want to use 2 hands or not. So a 6-8 really is pretty close to the maximum size that I can use 1 handed and even then I need to deploy software hacks like Gboard’s 1 handed mode and reachability to make it a usable device. Even the Ten starts to get ever so slightly too big as the area of the 8 I can’t reach is on the bezel and it becomes screen on the ten and ten s.

For anything else, like this post if I want to go from browsing social media to contributing to it or any kind of media work or more or less anything else I would usually reach for my iPad pro or maybe sit down at my desktop if it’s super hea

I'm mostly an iOS user. I usually work from an iPad or even the phone. I know people don't love the current Mini, it's old and some of it's component choices are suspect but it's the only Mac near my price range.

Still once in a while I have a situation that calls for a desktop OS or a desktop browser. I'd prefer to have access to some Apple stuff though it's not impossible that I could give up on that.

My workload wouldn't be anything heavy, Notes, Safari, Chrome (a lot of Google Office tools, iMessage, 1Password and iTunes.

So I was wondering if anyone had any experience into how bad PD is created. I just got my schedule for Preplanning and it's loaded with workshops and lectures and I know that some of it will be utterly awful.

And I mean the subjects are what they are but that's not what I'm talking about. A lot of them are presented like a college class by someone who doesn't know shit about how to teach and is just backing the dump truck of information back and making us sit through it all. It seems like PD should be presented like we teach, differentiated mostly presented to small groups with similar needs, different modes of presentation, some creativity.

Instead we get bog standard corporate

I’m not a Libertarian by any means, but I really do take economic liberty seriously. I want a somewhat more active government than most of the people I’d talk to on here, as an option of Last resort but that’s not the point.

My Facebook feed has lately gone from being somewhat progressive left, to really radicalized. A lot of people posting Marxist stuff or another favorite of mine the capitalism is good for TVs but not necessities thread and here’s a bunch of highly regulated industries.

Do you guys engage on this stuff? I fear if we all just go into our corners and won’t even talk with friends about it we’re going to end up at the point of torches and pitchforks sooner or later an

One of the areas where the Mac is so much easier to use than the iPad is managing different clouds. Moving a folder from the Google cloud to iCloud to Dropbox and Microsoft is as easy as a command c command v of the folder. I had really hoped that Files would solve this problem but by needing the file picker and being only able to move files piecemeal between these environments it really sets up a suboptimal situation. I thought Files was here precisely to address this but for some reason they’re only adding rudimentary support.

I don’t understand why 3rd party storage gets such a terrible user experience compared with iCloud and folders are treated so unintuitively, so if I want to mo