My Upcoming iPad-Only Week

After about a month, I finally brought my 2015 MacBook Pro to the Genius Bar to get a Service Battery alert diagnosed. I figured that it would require a new battery, but I didn’t consider the possibility of the computer needing to be sent for repair.

With that said, for the next week, I will be without a Mac laptop by my side for the first time in over three years. I’m not thrilled about it, but it does give me the opportunity to use the 11-inch iPad Pro I bought last month as a laptop without the safety net of my MacBook.

I’m currently using an Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard to make my iPad work as a laptop, a common setup by those who do so. During the first week or so of using my iPad, I used it almost exclusively in this quasi-laptop mode, but quickly slowed down after my wrists began to hurt while typing. I’m still trying to find a way to do this that isn’t an ergonomic discomfort.

Even though it is caused by an unwanted and expensive inconvenience, but I am still excited to see how the iPad life treats me until I get my Mac back. I’m interested to see how I grow has an iPad user, and where I find any shortcomings after using macOS. If publishing this post is any indication, this should be quite the experience.