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Well up until now I was flying 100K a year and bringing my MacBook Air and my 11 iPad Pro. The laptop was for working on presentations, docs, doing demos and SSH. The iPad was for the airplane and the hotel room bed. If I can really be productive on the iPad+keyboard setup then that changes what I will be packing. After the Apple store open again I am looking forward to trying this out. One downside, no Steam games for the airplane flight. When is the iPad Pro Civ6 port coming?

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When is the iPad Pro Civ6 port coming?

You mean this? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/id1...

This is evil. Now I do not need to find the laptop! Thanks for sharing. Now can we get Master Of Orion?

Starbase Orion was a pretty good homage when I played it a few years back. The multiplayer even worked reasonably well.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starbase-orion/id438375580

Maybe a specific iPad Pro version that’s not running at sub-native resolution and with lower graphic settings than the Nintendo Switch port. Civ6 on iPad was a very impressive port when released, but it hasn’t improved to take advantage of recent hardware.

You can change the resolution to run at retina resolution: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7ld2ht/civ_vi_is_cap...

I've got to ask - why were you carrying both?

What does one do, that the other couldn't?

Is it something basic like touch? or something slightly more complex (but evidently do-able) like a detachable keyboard?

I wouldn't touch the screen on a laptop. But with the iPad the touch interface is so good that you only need a keyboard if you write a long text (or code, for which a laptop would be a better fit anyway).

There is so much entertainment on planes that I stopped bringing any device, maybe 5 years ago.

Granted, your use case isn't entertainment, for the most part.

Civ6 is pretty good on iPad. The endgame performance is surprisingly good for a port to a machine with no fan.

Yeah I’ve done a couple of play throughs. It’s very good overall, just a bit slow on the turns on big maps.

Its a dog on a 4 Core i7 with a really big map. I cannot imagine what it is like on the iPad, but I am going to buy it and find out.

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