Ipad or Macbook Air

[wsthong]

Travelling to Japan in a few months time. I am unsure whether should I be carrying the Macbook Air (2017) or should I just buy an ipad 9th Gen 64GB for this trip. I do have my iphone with me but it will be easier to read on a bigger screen. I will be travelling around with luggage.

Alternatively, I am thinking to buy a cheap Samsung Galaxy.

 

[Pushka]

Travelling to Japan in a few months time. I am unsure whether should I be carrying the Macbook Air (2017) or should I just buy an ipad 9th Gen 64GB for this trip. I do have my iphone with me but it will be easier to read on a bigger screen. I will be travelling around with luggage.

Alternatively, I am thinking to buy a cheap Samsung Galaxy.

I've found the iPad to be more than sufficient to the extent I only use the laptop when a programme hasn't been developed for tablets. Travelled to Europe and was able to do accounting for our business, lodge taxation reports, sort out holiday photos, do banking, and keep in touch with the family through FaceTime. Just make sure you set it up for all the functions you need.

 

[WilsonM]

Travelling to Japan in a few months time. I am unsure whether should I be carrying the Macbook Air (2017) or should I just buy an ipad 9th Gen 64GB for this trip. I do have my iphone with me but it will be easier to read on a bigger screen. I will be travelling around with luggage.

Alternatively, I am thinking to buy a cheap Samsung Galaxy.

To me it depends on what you want to do. An iPad is perfect for movies and entertainment etc. while flying, as it's much less coughbersome than a laptop. You can easily get keyboard attachments as well if you need to work or type in a way that the touchpad isn't conducive to typing. A laptop is really only superior if you're doing some more specialised stuff, whether that is playing games or using various programs, or if you're writing a lot (like thousands of words).

 

[tgh]

I will bite… hate ipad's with a passion..
So, of course.. I travel with a now ageing 2017 macbook pro with 1tb of storage.
It can do anything I might wish on the road and faithfully mirrors the office mac.
There is a 600gram weight penalty that may be important to some folks...

 

[exceladdict]

Agree with @WilsonM and @Pushka - after adding the smart keyboard folio (not that they're cheap), I find an iPad (pro in my case) was enough to keep up to date with most things without a laptop, especially now the MS office suite and onedrive working pretty smoothly. Can even connect a bluetooth mouse! Didn't take my laptop on my last 2 week (mostly personal) trip and was able to jump in zoom calls, prep some documents, emails, ms teams etc.

Need to take the laptop (as well) for work trips but use the iPad for preloading content for the flight.

 

[Pushka]

Agree with @WilsonM and @Pushka - after adding the smart keyboard folio (not that they're cheap), I find an iPad (pro in my case) was enough to keep up to date with most things without a laptop, especially now the MS office suite and onedrive working pretty smoothly. Can even connect a bluetooth mouse! Didn't take my laptop on my last 2 week (mostly personal) trip and was able to jump in zoom calls, prep some documents, emails, ms teams etc.

Need to take the laptop (as well) for work trips but use the iPad for preloading content for the flight.

Yes, one drive for office files works brilliantly. I'd forgotten that.