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The new Mac will largely fill the same role as the old, essentially, a file server, internet sharing, and occasional projects that require Affinity Publisher which is not yet on the iPad.ДЄll that said, as I posted a couple days ago, thinking about a battery powered Mac Mini and modular computing, itвЂ™s also on my mind to reconsider the value of the Mac. My 2012 Mini is still running but with inflation, war and the general state of world affairs, I thought IвЂ™d go ahead and get set-up with a Mac that should last the next 10 years.

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M1 Mac Mini and iPad Pro Set-upДЄfter a bit of consideration these past few months I finally bought an M1 Mac Mini. This entry was posted in Apple, iPad Journal, Mac on Maby. Not only does Universal control work perfectly via this vertical arrangement it actually feels better and less error prone than it did when I had it off to the side.ДЄll in all I think Universal Control will be the kind of feature, like the other Continuity features such as Handoff and Shared Clipboard, that will prove really useful in my workflow as I suspect it does for others that are using multiple devices.

This makes room for the speakers on either side and the iPad fits perfectly below the display and just above the Keychron keyboard.

With this arrangement it occurred to me it might be better to place the iPad under the display rather than to the side as IвЂ™ve been using it. The last change IвЂ™ve just made to the set-up is a monitor arm for the 27вЂі display and two bookend speakers as the monitor has no built in speakers and the Mac MiniвЂ™s internal speaker is pretty useless. As I said at the beginning of the post, it feels as though IвЂ™m working with one computer. The beauty of Universal Control, iCloud and having a similar set of tools on the Mac and iPad means that however I choose to work at any given moment, IвЂ™ve got two screens, two computers, but one fast, seamless point of control for both. I donвЂ™t have a problem multitasking on the iPad but if I were at my desk already this would be an ideal time to use the Mac for the reference material sent by the client via email or Messages as I use Textastic to edit and upload the html files on the iPad Pro.

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The 13вЂі iPad Pro has a large enough screen that I can have two apps open from which to source content from, all the while my Publisher document remains focused and in full screen on the Mac.ДЇlipping it, while IвЂ™ve got the Mac set-up now to do website edits for clients thatвЂ™s something I usually do in Textastic on the iPad. If itвЂ™s an image I need I can do the same. Or select and drag the text back to the Mac screen and drop it. I can effortlessly move my cursor to the iPad, select, copy and then paste into my document. I might have text saved to Apple Notes, or in a Word document or in an email or webpage. In that case IвЂ™ll open my document full screen on the Mac and use the iPad for sourcing material sent by the client. For longer documents IвЂ™ll likely use Affinity Publisher which currently is not available on the iPad. I often need to design newsletters, reports or brochures. Initially there may be a tendency to over-think it.ДЄn example of how itвЂ™s been useful to me. The key here, and I believe AppleвЂ™s intent, is that the movement of cursor and keyboard between multiple screens be so fluid that we just do what we do without thinking too much.

But rather than the Mac driving both IвЂ™m using the extra compute power of the iPad as needed. ItвЂ™s all about flexibility and flow and learning to move between the screens just as I might if my Mac were using two screens. ThereвЂ™s nothing here thatвЂ™s set in concrete. And I suppose itвЂ™s possible that the usefulness might be a question depending on your workflow.Д«ut in my case as IвЂ™ve been making more of an effort to use my Mac and sitting at a desk to do so, IвЂ™ve worked out a pretty comfortable flow between the two. In the week or two since the release of the new feature thereвЂ™s been a bit of debate about the usefulness of the new feature with some suggesting itвЂ™s a gimmick or just not that useful. ItвЂ™s a computing experience with two screens. ThatвЂ™s what IвЂ™m telling myself when I use Universal Control.