natethomas t1_j472xg9 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 4:55 PM

Reply to comment by Shewsical in Apple might finally make a touchscreen Mac by No-Drawing-6975

A lot of people use MacOS on MacBook Airs that have literally the same compute power as iPad pros: The M1 chip. These days you can ALMOST accomplish everything such a person might want on an IPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard, but not all. I personally need terminal and non-mobile web browsers for my work. But I don’t need a ton of compute power, and when I do, I normally remote into a desktop PC that has a beefy chip you won’t find in most laptops.

Shewsical t1_j47od9d wrote on January 13, 2023 at 7:05 PM

I think this was more or less my point. Functionally, a touchscreen Macbook already exists in the iPad pros. So, it doesn't make sense to me to make the Macbook a touchscreen, when that essentially already exists.

Do people just want to be able to run MacOS on their iPads?

natethomas t1_j47prz0 wrote on January 13, 2023 at 7:14 PM

Personally? Yes. If my iPad Pro could plug into a thunderbolt port at my desk and become a desktop running MacOS, unplug and turn into an iPadOS device, and then turn back to macOS when attached to the keyboard, it’d be amazing for me