The iPad has no fan, no vents, a screen which traps heat instead of a keyboard that passively vents heat, and has less internal space than even the M2BA's body. It's going to throttle quickly when running MacOS and MacOS apps which are far more demanding than iPadOS and iPad apps; you'll end up with less performance than the Air.
Doesn't matter as Davinci Resolve and Octane X are coming to the iPad Pro. That's the compromise you pay for taking your work with you on a tablet, and many including myself would happily accept that compromise just so we can have macOS on an iPad Pro so we wouldn't have to carry our 14/16 inch Macbook Pros absolutely everywhere, and can just have anything not urgent work on the iPad.
The iPad has replaced a lot of laptops because a lot of people don't need to do more, and those who need MacOS to do work usually want more than 8GB RAM which means that you need the 1TB version.
Or you know they just want an OS that isn't walled garden off and a GUI that works best with mouse, which iPadOS doesn't since its mouse control is emulating touch.
MacOS isn't designed for touch
They could just disable the touchscreen for touch but still allow the Apple Pencil to be used as a stylus just like they already do in Sidecar mode
and as someone who had an 11" Air, MacOS isn't a good experience on that small of a screening that was before MacOS elements had more padding requiring more screen space.
Then don't use the 11 inch and use the 13 inch if it's too small for you
Having to reboot just to switch environments sucks
No it really doesn't lmao. I use a Steam Deck and switch between Gaming Mode and Desktop Mode all the time, and it only takes 10 seconds to switch between the two.
which is why you need enough RAM to suspend MacOS with apps running, iPadOS with apps running, and drive a second external 6K screen. Imagine telling someone who needs MacOS to do work that they should buy the computer with a single USB-C port; people hated the single port on the 12" MacBook even though you could plug in a dock.
People hated the single port on the 12 inch Macbook because USB-C was still in its infancy and there was jack for adapters and USB-C accessories at the time. That was 2015. Times have changed seven years later.
Plus here's the other thing: it's not just one single USB-C port. It's two if you have a Magic Keyboard, which anyone who would use macOS on the iPad Pro would most likely use anyhow. 😉
TLDR: You'll end up with a severely compromised work computer just so you can have your computer be an iPad.
Again going back to my first point, I seriously doubt it would be that compromised of a work computer if Davinci Resolve and Octane X is coming to iPadOS.
Hey, if you don't want to use macOS on an iPad Pro, then don't. I do though, and so do many others
