Will Apple ever make a MacBook with detachable keyboard?

[TinaBelcher]

I’m honestly starting to consider if I should purchase a surface pro because I’m really tired of waiting for Apple to pull something off. But then I remember that I’m trapped in the Apple Ecco system: MacBook, iPads, iPhone..or lord, how could I leave that behind, especially iMessage.. but then again, change is good.. but windows 10 isn’t as smooth or fast as apple’s OSes.

I know a lot of you will say I should get an iPad, but I already have the pro 12.9 and it doesn’t feel like a laptop replacement at all. Sometimes I don’t wanna be forced to download apps just to use something as simple as google doc. It’s not even accessable on the damn browser whatever it may be safari, chrome or Firefox.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I guess with what you're saying, what would a Surface do for you? Windows 10 doesn't offer many apps that make Surface much of a tablet, and using desktop programs as such will be frustrating since the UI is not designed around touch. Windows 10 tries to be a desktop OS and a tablet OS, and both feel somewhat compromised, IMO. On the desktop, the UI elements are way bigger than they need to be for mouse navigation, so the UI ends up wasting limited screen real estate. And then there's Windows font scaling issues on High-DPI displays. It's usually good if you're using UWP apps, but Windows 10 doesn't have many.

I guess my point is Windows tries to be all things, but when you add it all up, it just feels like a compromise. Judging by the success of Surface, not that many people are interested in 2-n-1s, as most OEMs have gone back to traditional laptop designs. I think Apple hasn't attempted to merge MacOS and iOS like you hope because either the interest isn't there, or there isn't a very good way to make it work well. There's a market for such a device, but, like the "phone is also a PC" concept, it sure doesn't look like the future.

I've owned several Surface devices over the years, and all of them were buggy (sleep/wake problems). I gave up on MS as a hardware company a couple years ago. If you think Apple's got some refinement issues lately, try living with a Surface.

 

[Queen6]

No Apple has made it very clear, in the meantime Apple struggles to produce a reliable keyboard on a basic notebook. My personal opinion is Apple is simply incapable of producing a useable 2 in 1, being overly fixated on thinner, thinner, thinner as opposed to the productivity of it's users

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