The Decisive Difference Between iPad and MacBook

A simple analogy perfectly describes how I experience the iPad over the MacBook in my daily work.

Tobias Hedtke
Mac O’Clock

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Image courtesy of the author.
Image courtesy of the author.

iPad or MacBook?

iPadOS or macOS?

iPad and MacBook?

These are common controversies among people working inside of Apple’s ecosystem and agonizing decisions for everyone who wants to get in. iPads, especially the iPad Pro models, get closer to MacBooks with every hardware iteration — but they will never be the same.

Without a doubt, I belong to team iPad — although I own both the latest M4 iPad Pro and a MacBook Pro.

I find it sometimes hard to convey why I prefer the iPad so much more over the MacBook until a sparkling thought recently came to my mind…

Let’s consider a door…

Photo by Roan Lavery on Unsplash

Just a regular front door of a regular house. It’s the portal to get inside, but simultaneously, it is an obstacle to overcome before you can get inside the house. You have to make an effort to overcome the obstacle. And this effort is all the more significant if you first…

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Tobias Hedtke
Mac O’Clock

Scientist, entrepreneur, and tech enthusiast from Germany, writing about Apple tech, productivity, and start-up entrepreneurship