This isn’t exactly wrong, but the idea that iPads “do more” doesn’t quite capture what’s really going on.

iPads only do more for those who are incompetent with general purpose computers. Which is most people, so yes for the majority of people from their perspective an iPad can do more as they have no clue how to use their desktop PC.

I have an iPad. I bought it for and use it for one thing only: reading eBooks due to its great screen.

For every other thing I could possibly use it for, it’s far slower and far, far clunkier to use than my desktop PC or the MacBook Pro.

So for the computer-incompetent, tablets can indeed do more. For the other 2-10% of society, using a tablet for anything substantive is like attempting to tear down a brick wall with a fingernail file – yes, it can be done, but it’s going to take a few years while a wrecking ball (read: general purpose computer) can get that same task done in a few seconds.

Reading on my formerly very-nice Cinema Display is now not that much fun since the MacBook Pro’s Retina Display is so glorious.

Luckily it’s all that I will be using soon – that or my iPad air which also has a wonderful but smaller screen.

The first computer screen I ever used heavily was the TRS-80 Model III which had a 80×25 text display. Yeah, that’s right: 2,000 pixels.

The MacBook Pro RD by comparison has a screen with 4.1 million pixels.

Damn.