In a brand new Macworld article that you simply actually ought to learn, Jason Snell says that the Mac and the iPad are on a collision course, and one thing wants to vary.
He doesn’t assume that Apple ought to essentially merge macOS and iPadOS however that customers is perhaps higher served “if the iPad Professional might be extra like a Mac and the MacBook might be extra like an iPad Professional.”
Nonetheless, I’ve lengthy favored a extra radical strategy: an Apple system that might substitute each the iPad and the Mac. I name it the “Apple Pad.”
Picture an iPad Professional type issue that works with a removable keyboard, in addition to a mouse and trackpad. Think about such a tool plugging into an “Apple Studio Show Professional” that has contact management AND gesture management. You may additionally plug in an exterior GPU for even higher efficiency and join exterior drives for extra storage.
Voila! You’d have one system to exchange your Mac desktop, Mac laptop computer, and iPad Professional. The Apple Pad would pack an Apple-developed processor and might be supplied in numerous sizes: 11-inches, 13-inches, and 15-inches.
Below this state of affairs, once you need a large display, keyboard, plenty of processing energy, and many others., you’ll use the Apple Pad/Apple Imaginative and prescient/eGPU combo. Once you’re on the go, detach the Apple Pad and take it with you.
In fact, this may contain merging iPadOS and macOS into one AppleOS working system (Apple OS?). Apple has acknowledged again and again that it gained’t do that nor merge the iPad and Mac into one system.
Nonetheless, I feel they are going to. The query, so far as I’m involved, is when this may occur?
