I guess its a shame then. Seeing all this powerful silicon sitting idle on our ancillary devices, it would be so cool to add this feature as part of Sidecar or something. Since it's all the same silicon in the future Macs and iPads, it would just be one of those magical things that Apple does and no one has to think about. Geez, this render is taking forever.... ah just plug my iPad in to take up some of the load. One can dream. ;-) ....speaking of Sidecar, the fact that the iPad can be used as a display device which consumes a ton of bandwidth, why can't the Mac talk to the cores on the attached device? Is it really that hard or not worthwhile? I remember setting up Modo on a couple of my extra MacBooks that were lying around just to do network renders like 8 years ago and it worked really well... and that was over wifi.
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...or even better, this could be built into OpenCL, where all of the attached CPU and GPU cores could be leveraged for intensive tasks like video editing/rendering effects (After Effects, Motion) or 3D like Maya and Modo.