Earlier this year, my iPad Pro 11-inch, after half a decade of faithful service, entered its ‘YouTube machine’ era thanks to the purchase of a 16-inch MacBook Pro. With it's M1 chipset and massive screen, my task-smashing MacBook muscled in on my iPad Pro’s turf and never left. My tablet isn’t one of the newer M-series iPads, which makes it harder to choose for high-intensity work like video editing and music production.
During a recent night of drafting blog posts and noodling around on Ableton Live, I found myself rearranging my desk setup to place my iPad and MacBook side by side – and wondered whether they might be better teammates than rivals.
