Would be nice to read why you are unhappy PCs are still around.
Though personally i don't see why one should replace the other. Their own dimensions, weight, power inside etc, limits or enables one device to do something the other can't. And touch is nice, but think you really need to be able to pair a mouse to your iPad to get a desktop feeling anyway. Then again, those are just my personal opinions about using iPad as a desktop.
Seems to me we're just quickly getting to the point of debating over the OS and software on whatever piece of hardware we choose to use.
PS: Humans need several inches of separation between their hands and where their eyes are pointing to be comfortable for 8+ hours a day for decades.
At a basic level, IT really hasn’t disrupted the convenience of pen and paper. I can still do a lot more and much more quickly with pen+paper than a computer. Even more so a whiteboard.
Also backlit screens are awful.
What are some other traditional PC drawbacks?
If I have a remote desktop type of task, there's no other reasonable way to do it than to click fast with a mouse, like I would type fast if it was a shell task.
Ummm, good keybindings are better/faster than a mouse. E.g. were I writing this in emacs I could select 'keybindings' with C-r k RET C-SPC M-C-f; I could then copy it with M-SPC — all in less time than it takes to switch my hands from the home row to the mouse.
There's likely little question the vast majority of laptop users use a mouse or trackpad for their day to day.
From a power user perspective:
I'm not aware I can use those keybindings to select text in any iOS app and not just in a shell app?
I'm very well versed with keyboard shortcuts, type 100 wpm, and use vim regularly.
A mouse will always be faster for through administering GUI apps where there are settings screen with many dropdowns and checkboxes on every screen.
I log in to as many remote desktops and vms with a GUI as command line. I interchangeably work between Linux, Mac and Windows in a day.
Selexting text in any iOS app also can't be done by keyboard shortcut as far as I know. The mouse again provides the most precision, and I'm not a huge fan of it. The apple pen might be an admission of the need for precision on iPad for more use cases.
It wouldn't kill Apple to expose the mouse capability so I wouldn't have to consider a surface pro.
The iPad with a mouse would be amazing laptop for most.
Oh, certainly. I find the lack of a mouse to be almost as insufferable as the lack of a keyboard.
> I'm not aware I can use those keybindings to select text in any iOS app and not just in a shell app?
There's no reason why iOS couldn't incorporate more-complex keybindings throughout, and it fact macOS does incorporate some emacs-like keybindings.
> A mouse will always be faster for through administering GUI apps where there are settings screen with many dropdowns and checkboxes on every screen.
Actually, take a look at customize[0]: it's a complete, mouse- or keyboard-driven GUI (yes, that includes buttons & checkboxes). It can be pretty nice to be able to C-s and interactive-search a GUI panel.
I certainly won't deny that a mouse or stylus is useful for precision GUI manipulation — I'm just noting that more can be achieved with a keyboard that typical 1984-Macintosh-derived GUIs attempt.