iPadOS 26.1 Beta 2 Reintroduces Slide Over Multitasking

[B-Mc-C]

can you? AFAIK Macbook airs start at £999. My iPad Air was £650. Already had a keyboard and trackpad.

Of course. MacRumors is regularly posting about $599 MacBook Air sales. Apple also working on getting to this price point.

MacBook Air With M1 Chip is Just $599 at Walmart

In case you missed it, Walmart is currently offering the older but still very capable MacBook Air with the M1 chip for just $599 in the United States. It seems like this deal began around Amazon's four-day Prime Day event in early July, but it flew under our radar until a reader let us know...

www.macrumors.com

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/here-are-all-the-rumors-about-apples-new-599-macbook.2463310/

 

[germanbeer007]

'pro' being the key word here... Why do we need a Pro to just do iPad-y things?

Pro is just a brand name like AirPods Pro. It doesn't mean those AirPods are meant for "Professionals" but rather is just for users who want extra features.

 

[GeoffDeGeoff]

Slide over and two apps side by side needs to come back to full screen mode. The overlapping windows are stupid on the iPad mini. It just doesn’t work.

 

[darngooddesign]

Slide over and two apps side by side needs to come back to full screen mode. The overlapping windows are stupid on the iPad mini. It just doesn’t work.

You don't have to overlap windows.

 

[GeoffDeGeoff]

You don't have to overlap windows.

True, but it's much less user friendly than the old mechanic was and on the tiny screen of the mini it really doesn't work. Coupled with lining up some windows as some apps don't resize well.

And it removes the corner swipe function for notes and screenshots which I used a lot when you turn off fullscreen mode because the window re-sizing overrides it.

If I wanted a MacBook I'd buy one.

 

[Mrbiggestman]

True, but it's much less user friendly than the old mechanic was and on the tiny screen of the mini it really doesn't work. Coupled with lining up some windows as some apps don't resize well.

And it removes the corner swipe function for notes and screenshots which I used a lot when you turn off fullscreen mode because the window re-sizing overrides it.

If I wanted a MacBook I'd buy one.

what if you tried stage manager? in one view you could have both windows in ‘splitview’ and slideover and just section it out across different views.

 

[darngooddesign]

True, but it's much less user friendly than the old mechanic was and on the tiny screen of the mini it really doesn't work. Coupled with lining up some windows as some apps don't resize well.

And it removes the corner swipe function for notes and screenshots which I used a lot when you turn off fullscreen mode because the window re-sizing overrides it.

If I wanted a MacBook I'd buy one.

However it's better in portrait.

I agree that Apple should have kept it as an option, because the final version of SS was very nice. Have you sent that feedback to Apple?

 

[GeoffDeGeoff]

what if you tried stage manager? in one view you could have both windows in ‘splitview’ and slideover and just section it out across different views.

Stage manager is even worse on the small iPad. It’s not built for it.
Split view was perfect

 

[GeoffDeGeoff]

However it's better in portrait.

I agree that Apple should have kept it as an option, because the final version of SS was very nice. Have you sent that feedback to Apple?

Yes, I have sent the feedback. I see no reason to have removed split view and slide over from full screen mode.

 

[Ipadonly1]

Of course. MacRumors is regularly posting about $599 MacBook Air sales. Apple also working on getting to this price point.

MacBook Air With M1 Chip is Just $599 at Walmart

In case you missed it, Walmart is currently offering the older but still very capable MacBook Air with the M1 chip for just $599 in the United States. It seems like this deal began around Amazon's four-day Prime Day event in early July, but it flew under our radar until a reader let us know...

www.macrumors.com

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/here-are-all-the-rumors-about-apples-new-599-macbook.2463310/

I don’t think we get these kinds of deals outside the US…

 

[darngooddesign]

I don’t think we get these kinds of deals outside the US…

It’s a sale on something sold exclusively through Walmart.

 

[B-Mc-C]

It’s a sale on something sold exclusively through Walmart.

If you read the whole post, Apple is about to come out with a $599 MacBook. And the current gen MacBook Air is now $200 off, starting at $799. The concept of Macs only being accessible to the ultra wealthy is laughable.

 

[Ipadonly1]

If you read the whole post, Apple is about to come out with a $599 MacBook. And the current gen MacBook Air is now $200 off, starting at $799. The concept of Macs only being accessible to the ultra wealthy is laughable.

The current gen Macbook Air starts at £999 here in the UK which in today's money is 1,300 USD. It is on sale via Amazon though at £879 ($1,144). As you say the cheaper Macbook is coming out, but outside of the US, they're still not exactly cheap. Given that the average consumer likes a tablet for 'consuming content', it would be very expensive to buy a Macbook at £879 as well as an iPad. If someone didn't mind not having a tablet, I'd say just get a Macbook, but given the hold that tablets have on the market, most people go for them and for a lot of people there's a massive amount of duplication then between their macbook and their iPad. My point is that I agree with you that Macs are not just for the ultra wealthy and this might be becoming even less true, but right now the average consumer outside of the US cannot afford (or is overspending) on the Macbook+iPad combo.

 

[Jay-Jacob]

So glad slide over is back been using it since this was released public OS. Thank you Apple! I was expecting it be gone forever.