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Subject: Re: Install iOS 17.4.1 now to patch 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:53:15 -0000 (UTC)
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Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Bill Powell wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:07:16 +1200, Your Name wrote:
>> 
>>> Despite Apple's attempts to claim otherwise, the iPad is not and cannot 
>>> be a computer replacement for many reasons. The main one being that fat 
>>> fingers are a hopelessly inaccurate input device. The Pencil or similar 
>>> stylus (that Steve Jobs abhored when the iPad first launched) make is a 
>>> bit better, but your hands are still in the way of the display so it is 
>>> still nowhere near as good as a mouse, trackpad, or separate graphics 
>>> tablet.
>> 
>> All what you said is true, but some of what you said can be overcome by
>> mirroring the iPad over onto the Windows computer using a tool such as
>> https://www.vysor.io/download/
>> 
>> When casting that iPad to the PC's monitor, you have full use of the
>> keyboard, mouse and clipboard of the PC (and any attached pencils).
> 
> If your PC really needs that ipad, it must be a pretty lame computer. I 
> would agree that an ipad might help, if your PC is from 1991, sporting an 
> intel 386 with a single 5-1/4" floppy.

An ipad is just as fast as a PC for pretty much any desktop task. Apple
Silicon blows intel out of the water for efficiency and anything below 13th
gen intel in raw power.