{"id":28575,"date":"2020-04-08T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28575"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:16:27","slug":"ipad-desk-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/08\/ipad-desk-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad Desk Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/modular-computer\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viticci\/status\/1246083074531737601\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/modular-computer\/\"><p>Ever since I upgraded my home office with a new desk, Mac mini, and UltraFine 4K monitor in November 2018, I&rsquo;ve been working toward a single goal: building a setup that would allow me to <strong>use the same external display and keyboard with two different computers<\/strong> and OSes &#x2013; the Mac mini and iPad Pro. Same desk, two vastly different experiences. It took me a while, but thanks to the improvements in iPadOS 13.4 (and a late realization on my part), I&rsquo;m happy to say I <em>finally<\/em> have the &ldquo;desktop iPad Pro&rdquo; setup I&rsquo;ve long desired.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In practice, the net result of Apple&rsquo;s pointer efforts is a comprehensive system that lets me fully control the iPadOS UI mirrored on my UltraFine 4K monitor without ever touching the iPad Pro. This has fundamentally altered the ergonomics of my setup and improved how quickly I can get work done with multiple apps in this configuration.<\/p>\n<p>With a native pointer, I can finally select text with higher precision than multitouch without taking my hands off the keyboard and trackpad in front of me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/18\/ipad-pro-2020-and-magic-keyboard-with-trackpad\/\">iPad Pro 2020 and Magic Keyboard With Trackpad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/ipad-at-10\/\">iPad at 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/beyond-the-tablet\/\">Beyond the Tablet: Seven Years of iPad as My Main Computer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci (tweet): Ever since I upgraded my home office with a new desk, Mac mini, and UltraFine 4K monitor in November 2018, I&rsquo;ve been working toward a single goal: building a setup that would allow me to use the same external display and keyboard with two different computers and OSes &#x2013; the Mac mini [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-04-08T20:16:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"f89fa818-a467-447b-ae2b-34ccddb1ab75","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-04-08T20:16:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-J-oGKRnRHuuKzTM3bGrdQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1667,145,1269,1815],"class_list":["post-28575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-ipad","tag-ipad-pro","tag-ipados-13"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28576,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28575\/revisions\/28576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}