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Which should I use as my main mobile computer?

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Better main computer for mobile?  

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  1. 1. ASUS or iPad?

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Purchased an Asus Vivobook F512Da 15.6 inch laptop and iPad Air 3 with Logitech Slim Combo keyboard this summer, which in your opinion would you rather have as the main mobile work computer? I am in final year medical school and do a lot of data analysis using PSPP/SPSS in addition to the usual web-browsing and media consumption. 

 

Specs of laptop: 

 

Ryzen 5 3500U

8 gb DDR4 RAM

256 gb M.2 SSD

Vega 8

 

Spec of iPad Air 3

A12 bionic chip

3 gb LDDR4X RAM

64 gb

 

Core i7 2700K Oc'ed 4.4 Ghz, EVGA GTX 970 ACX 2.0 SC'ed, 16 GB DDR3 RAM, 240 GB Intel 730 SSD and 2 TB 7200 RPM HDD, Zalman Z9 plus case with 7 blue LED fans, Windows 10 Preview 

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For me it'd be the laptop hands down. Can toss it around more without breaking it and not being restricted to iOS/iPad OS apps is a massive win in my book.

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I used SPSS (useful tool, awful software) on Windows. But I don't remember seeing an iOS or iPadOS version (or its equivalent) of the app.

 

So a Windows/macOS/Linux based system is a no-brainer for me.

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The VivoBook - no real competition - the iPad is so fragile, so limited and so locked down that it's borederline useless as a main device

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