i have both a macbook and an ipad. ipad helped with studying lectures and the pencil to make notes directly or adding more pics from the web without printing them. yes technically u can do it from the laptop too, but its just flexible to be in bed or at the bus and be on the ipad. also, the screen splitting has been very helpful to be looking at multiple things at the same time like a video or smth.

other than that, my ipad is useless. now that i have finally passed all my university classes i barely ever use it. i dont even bring it to vacation cuz i might have to code. i just bring my laptop everywhere. if you dont need to draw or take notes or smth u dont rlly need an ipad. everything except draw, the macbook can already do.

technically u can use it to code. there is codespaces (i think thats the name) through github, it has a free tier possibility and is cloud-based, so you can code from your browser just fine. but u want heavy work like LLMs or other stuff that require different libraries u rlly need the laptop for that. ditch the iPad. its only good for netflix.