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Xed said:

Is it possible to read Kindle books on this. I prefer to get library books via Libby and push to my Amazon account. This is seamless with the Kindle. I'd consider this if that was an equivalent experience without a lot of hurdles.

Possible indeed. Pretty seamless even. I have the smaller, black and white only, Boox Page and it's great. I've installed Libby and the Kindle app on it and they work just like they do on iPads and iPhones. But now, if there's a title that isn't available through the Kindle app I can still read it on e-ink right in the Libby app. Also, unlike a normal Kindle device I can pair a bluetooth keyboard to this Boox to mount the tablet at eye level and turn pages with the keyboard. I've convinced a buddy of mine to get the Note Air C that this article discusses, and he digs it too. Reads in the Kindle app on one side of the screen and takes notes on the other side. Count me in as a Boox fan!

Com'on iPhone mini Pro!

AppleZulu said:

The perennial rumor of a Mac/iPad hybrid keeps coming up because the MS Surface is such a sleek, efficient, dominating category killer. 

Seriously. MacOS has to run intensive software on the Mac Pro, with multiple giant screens that ergonomically will not function injury-free as touch screens. Making that OS also work in a touch environment on an iPad is a recipe for widows-like bloatware that tries to do all things, but none very well. 

It’s entirely possible someone in the bowels of the big round building is experimenting, but those experiments are unlikely to ever see the light of day. 

But I want my toaster-fridge! /s 

But seriously, you're 1000% correct. No one ever uses an MS Surface without the keyboard/attachment because no one ever bothered to write tablet focused software for the thing. So it's just a ergo-nightmare laptop. Plus you get Windows! Hard pass.

Maybe I'm wrong and Apple will drop some weirdo mutant MacPad OS, but I doubt it.

Another case to be made for the 13" MBP over the Air is the included fan. True, it hardly ever comes on under normal load, but when I was converting a bunch of videos with Handbrake it definitely cranked the fan and presumably did the converting faster than the fanless Air could muster. Generally, I like thinner and lighter machines, but when work handed me the Pro I didn't complain.

Windows is such hot garbage— and it was cobbled together with cursors and keyboards in mind, and then adapted slightly to support touch. I've never seen anyone use a Surface without the slap on keyboard/trackpad bit, and at that point why not just get a laptop? Surfaces really are the perfect MS product, in that they try to be all things to all people instead of committing to hard design choices. It's like a car that can also be a boat, so it's terrible at both. Boo this product. Booooo!