I’m thinking of leaving my laptop at home on my next trip and just taking my iPad. Most of what I do is browse the web, answer emails, watch movies and occasionally edit documents. Has anyone here traveled with only an iPad?
Kind of a no brainer for me, its compact and easy to travel with. great for movies on long trips, and I’m weirdly obsessed with sudoku so this thing always comes through for that. not much to think about, just take it!!
Mine was more mixed tbh, got a keyboard case for a work trip which helped a lot, but wouldn’t say it fully replaced my laptop, more like got me 80% there. Also brought my Pencil almost as an afterthought and ended up doodling in cafes way more than planned lol, wasn’t expecting that to become a whole thing
Huh, I don’t even have a keyboard for mine, might actually grab one before the trip. Probably matters more for me too since I do a lot of emails and text heavy stuff
I fly a lot for work and always bring mine, but ran into something nobody’s mentioned yet, battery life on long flights. Between watching movies and editing video, mine barely makes it 4 hours before it’s dead 
I bring a 30000mAh power bank since that’s the max allowed on planes, and I’d bring a second one if I could, that limit’s annoying when you’re actually using the thing hard for a full flight
@Jules the battery thing is SO real, flying for work too and mine’s basically just a fully downloaded Netflix library at this point. doesn’t help the battery situation at all lmao, probably makes it worse if anything, but starting some new psychological thriller the second the seatbelt sign turns off is like my whole coping mechanism for long flights
mine was honestly kind of a non event, grabbed a travel eSIM before I left and never had to think about wifi the whole trip
Had an 18 hour train ride a couple days ago and honestly cannot imagine doing that without something playing in the background the entire time. I basically have to stay reachable the whole trip and end up working off my phone a lot, constantly jumping back into messages or calls, so idk, having something running on the iPad in the background is just a genuine must have for me at this point
Also worth flagging, since docs were part of your original question, make sure whatever you’re working on is saved locally before you leave, not just sitting in the cloud. Plane and airport wifi are both unreliable enough that you don’t want to find out mid edit that a file won’t open 
Reading through all your replies, definitely more to prepare for than I thought if I actually want this to be comfortable on the road. But the keyboard’s the real must have here, placing an order for one right now