YES YES YES - that is the holy grail for me. Tablet when you want it to be with iPadOS, add a keyboard/mouse bootcamp to Big Sur when you need to run desktop apps. That's why I keep praying for 8GB RAM - that is the only missing hardware piece.
It exists, but it’s secondary - the mouse interface is adapted to the touch one, not the other way. The main point of the iPad is that everything CAN (by can, I mean usable) be done with touch, and you cannot say that about a desktop OS. I think the only possibility, although it seems very difficult to achieve, is to have an adaptive interface for both inputs. But dual boot is definitely not going to happen: 1. It has many many technical problems, disk management, shared APIs for different components, updates, boot and specially 2. it doesn’t send a clear message about what’s the product, duplicated features, multiple inputs with multiple interfaces... I’m 99% convinced Apple will never do that.
We’ve reached the scale with iOS and iPadOS devices where, in any given year, there are millions upon millions of folks potentially looking for something new. The majority of folks using iPads are using ones that are 2-4 or more years old. Their decision to buy isn’t based on “These specs aren’t that much better than last year’s”, it’s “These specs are better than mine”.
If they are going to add Thunderbolt then better external monitor support would be logical enhancement - especially give the poor support today. Yes, agree that Apple can move quickly and decisvely when they want - mouse support went from crude accessibility setting to finished product quickly and we didn't even have to wait for the new major OS version.
1) disable the touch screen in macOS mode, require keyboard and mouse
About improving external monitor support, I agree, it’s frustrating right now, but at the same time I don’t know how it could be done - I fear it could end like iOS apps in macOS, with weird controls and interfaces. About docking phones, I just think it doesn’t have a use case in real life, you always have better and more convenient devices for that purpose.
Cool idea. With all that power I’d like to see some more desktop features to the OS. And adapted versions of the pro apps would be interesting to see.
Carrying a fragile computer around is not very convenient. I would love an iPad that did all I need so I can be anywhere and travel efficiently
Yes, the beauty of the 5-nanometers architecture. It’s very advanced.
I basically think they won’t, but just to specify about the third point... Yes, there’s bootcamp, but that’s something in a desktop OS, with a traditional structure, DMGs, hidden folders (get my point?) and with a target OS that shares the same UI. In this case, we’re talking about a totally different OS, not only from the UI point of view, but also the fundamentals. And about the touchscreen, camera, LiDAR, accelerometer... is Apple going to provide APIs/..Kit for that? Or have fragmentation? You say you see Apple disabling all that... I don’t. But anyway, we’ll see, I may be wrong, I also thought a trackpad would never make it to the iPad (although at a way lower degree than this).
I actually think Apple sees big growth opportunities for the Mac otherwise why go through all that time and investment into making Apple Silicon for Macs
The Surface Pro is a computer with touchscreen and detachable keyboard: computer OS, computer SoC, computer interface, computer IO, computer thickness... yeah, a tablet isn’t a computer, and a computer isn’t a tablet.
IPP keyboard... boom iPad is a better compute. Add thunderbolt like rumors say with a dongle ... done deal. Just cause iPad is smaller it’s already faster than the surface tablets
