I've been traveling a lot lately and find the 12.9-inch iPad much better suited for work on the go than a MacBook Pro.

The floating Magic Keyboard offers a lot more space in a bus/plane seat, it has a mobile phone, and if you remove the keyboard you still have your iPad. And the iPad Pro now has Stage Manager, which is annoying for most things but super easy to work with. The iPad certainly has shortcomings compared to the Mac for a lot of things, but what it does well it does really well, and nothing else comes close.

“As a frequent traveler (I'm an American living in Bangkok, Thailand, with clients in Berlin, Helsinki, Hong Kong, and elsewhere), I love having my 12.9-inch iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard as my mobile workstation,” Alia Grant, a frequent traveler and writer for the remote work company Iglu, told Lifewire via email.

The largest iPad might not seem like the most portable option. And if you add the Magic Keyboard with trackpad, the setup weighs more than the MacBook Air. But the keyboard is already a case for the iPad, and it can be separated from the keyboard when you don’t need it. For reference, the iPad Pro weighs 1.51 pounds (685 grams), the Magic Keyboard weighs 1.56 pounds (710 grams), and the latest MacBook Air weighs 2.7 pounds (1.24 kg).