We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I have been pushing the cause of using the iPad as a laptop replacement for years. Let me dispel any erroneous expectations from the get-go.

Can you replace a MacBook with one of the best iPads? It’s a question that comes up every time new iPads launch or iPadOS gets its annual update. For years, the answer has largely been a big fat NO.

This might sound controversially ridiculous, but for the past few years, my primary computer has been an iPad Pro. I first got interested in pushing tablets this way when the M1 version came out, and ...