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The iPads have become very capable for 3D and illustration, I think they are good also for music.

I don’t have a use for the Pro model but I use my Air a lot.

My laptop folds and has a touchscreen too.. there are ones which support advanced pens - none of this requires the OS to be as locked as iOS.

I have never used a touch screen laptop that wasn’t compromised - heavy, wrong screen ratio and if it’s an x86 laptop it runs hot with poor battery life

Yeah the nice thing about (non-cellular) iPads vs. the competition (including Android tablets last time I tried them, but maybe they've gotten a ton better since then) is that you can leave them in a drawer for a couple weeks, take them out, they'll wake up ~instantly, and still have a useful amount of charge. x86 laptops and (again, last I tried) Android tablets always gave me "where's the nearest outlet?!" anxiety, or were just dead when I picked them up to use them. iPads are chill.

You've chosen your computer and OS and are looking for compatible apps. I've gone the other way. I want to run Procreate and the best environment for running it is the iPad with Apple Pencil.

Both are reasonable ways to make a decision.

No desktop OS works as well with a touchscreen as iPad OS.

It's a touch-first OS, for better and for worse. Anything else it was tacked onto a UI/UX made for a keyboard and mouse

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