Quoting Craig Grannell
Craig Grannell, I Replaced My Mac With an iPad for an Entire Week. It Went as Well as You’d Expect
But I quickly find app gaps. There’s no BBEdit. No Transmit for FTP and network storage access—although FileBrowser steps in there. I’m suddenly reminded Scrivener on iPad lacks the Mac version’s two-up page view I use for long-form writing. So I wheel out Apple’s Pages for the first time in forever. (Sorry, Scriv—fix your iPad version and I’ll be back!)[…] Worse, I miss the Mac’s broader customization. BetterTouchTool is absent. All my custom keyboard shortcuts are gone. As is the Mac-standard Option + up/down arrow to send the cursor to the start/end of a paragraph. My muscle memory is screaming.[…] Lesson of the day: When moving to iPad, make sure your essential apps exist and work, well in advance.[…] To sum up, then: Can you replace your Mac with an iPad? It depends. I faced shortcomings. You probably would too.