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kiltedgreen said:

mfryd said:

However, this is not a reason to prohibit running Mac OSX on an iPad.   Users should have a choice as to which OS they run.

I have nothing against the iPad OS.   It's a great solution for many (but not all) users.   Why not allow users to choose which OS they are running?    

The iPad OS can be the default, but please allow power users to install OSX.  iPad apps already work inside of Mac OSX, so no functionality is lost.  

An iPad with an M4 processor, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, Thunderbolt 3, and a Magic Keyboard Folio (Keyboard and trackpad) would make a damn fine portable Mac.

Please, just buy a MacBook if you want a “damn fine portable Mac”, it’s already here. I for one do not want my iPad running macOS - I’ll leave that to my Mac thanks.

I have both and use both.  But I would prefer to have one device that does both. Ideally a choice of which OS to boot, but also on more capable iPads, have both OS running simultaneously.  Plenty of use cases for having MacOS running on the left on the screen and iPadOS running on the right for example.

Arghhh..... no mention of the app where Siri desperately needs to be improved - the Home App.  Right now it is terrible for voice control.  Most of the time we want to change a setting in the home we are not on our devices.  IMO that makes it the MOST important app for Siri improvements, as Siri is the most common way to interact with the Home app.

Purchase of the new smart keyboards, should enable the iPad Pro M4 to dual boot MacOS.

Once you have a keyboard and trackpad, the disingenuous dishonest PR BS from Apple, that touch devices are not suited to MacOS, no longer has any validity.

It's just pure disdain for the customer and the product in the name of nothing but naked greed.  

The 1TB models and up, with their larger RAM should enable simultaneous dual OS, in some sort of split screen or picture in picture mode.

They should also allow multiple user profiles for iPadOS as on Mac.

Then it could be justifiably called a "Pro".

Instead, it is just an egregious example of Apple Executives laughing themselves silly and taking bets on who the next fool is that will buy both a MacBook and an iPad.  

No doubt in the background they play the Nirvana Song "R8PE ME"

Malcolm…. Perhaps you wrote this article before your morning coffee, or got decaf?  LOL.  The new M4 pro models are the very first iPads ever with OLED displays.  The previous M1 and M2 iPad Pro 13 inch models have mini LED, not OLED displays. 

I have been using iPad Pros since they debuted in 2016.  It’s pretty pathetic in Apple’s part that it took until 2014, for the 10.5 to 11 inch size category to finally get a display worthy of the “pro” moniker.  The M4 iPads overall still don’t come close to deserving a pro moniker IMO. Not until they can boot MacOS as an option.

Apple has no valid “user experience” excuse once a user purchases the new keyboard / trackpad for the M4 iPad Pros.  With that an iPad Pro has all the same user interface hardware of a MacBook.  The new keyboard Pro should automatically enable MacOS boot mode.

Bumping up to the 1TB+ M4 iPad Pro models, with more RAM, should allow for simultaneous MacOS and iPadOS in the same screen, with one of them windowed inside the other.

I often use MacOS together with iPadOS.  It would be nice to finally be able to do that without having to lug both an iPad and MacBook to the coffee shop.  Handoff universal clipboard with handofff keyboard and trackpad allow me the best of both worlds simultaneously.  

Apple stock is deservedly underperforming these days as they have lost their focus on making the best products from a user perspective.  Greedy geezers need to all be dumped in favour of you get blood willing to build the best products instead of working on making themselves rich first.  I say this as a geezer myself with almost 6 decades of existence.

Wow.  It’s truly sad how the evils of oppression are so evident here.  The worst of humanity on such open display.  No, it’s not the photo or anyone in it but the commenters.