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Did you read the text? The goal is not a portable SSH client, but a sort of traveling admin's Swiss army knife device, hence relatively small size (but large enough to host a keyboard), and a lot of ports. Isn't it obvious that iPad cannot conform to the requirements?

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Did you read the post I replied to?

> And since your battery won't be large enough to support compiling LLVM in reasonable time anyway, it's better to just get used to do CPU-heavy stuff by ssh-ing to a rackmount somewhere use the laptop for terminal-ish tasks.

Nothing about that comment says anything to support your arbitrary narrowing of the device purpose.

Well, it does, and my comment does start with IF your goal is....

If your goal IS NOT that, then clearly what I suggested isn't going to be applicable is it?

Indeed, it did seem totally inapplicable to the thread.

I wrote that. And the reason that I didn't go into connectivity/port issues is that they have almost nothing to do with battery lifetime. I saw no reason to digress into those topics.

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