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Apple Product identifiers have leaked every Mac release through 2026
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Apple plans low-cost MacBook based on iPhone processor
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Craig Federighi says macOS would ruin what makes the iPad special
My clamouring for a more MacOS-like iPadOS is exactly that. I do not want the iPad to actually run macOS, I want iPadOS to become way more capable (iPadOS 26 seems very much to hit most of my pain points but we’ll see when I’m actually a daily user this autumn) and I’d want it to be more open and powerful (actual non-Apple browsers, macOS level apps but designed for iPad, etc).
That said, Jason Snell had a fantastic suggestion a year or two ago: it runs iPadOS when gadding about town as a tablet but transforms into a macOS device when hooked up to an external display. Talk about overhead! But man, what a device that would be…
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Valve's Steam gaming client is finally getting an Apple Silicon native upgrade
apple4thewin said:Hopefully that means Apple works with Steam to make a temporary Game Porting Toolkit native mod until developers decide to update their applications. -
How the new iPadOS 26 UI moving closer to Mac is a giant productivity boost
thedba said:Here are my “on a napkin” calculations.An iPad Pro 13” = $1299Smart keyboard w/trackpad = $319Total: $1618
OTOH MacBook Air = $999MacBook Air 15” (you know productivity) = $1199Does anyone really think that folks arguing for “productivity” and “real work” are going to start buying iPads by the truckload because of this?
iPadOS 26 should come close but I’d need the software to allow more Mac-like behaviours (e.g. a non-Safari browser, desktop equivalent) for it to genuinely be my mobile computing go-to.
I’d given up all hope that the iPad would ever grow up. Now there’s a glimmer… but I’ve fallen for that before. I’m deep in the iPad rabbit hole so I suppose I just have to wait it out. I have a 16” MBPro which will remain my main portable computing device for a while yet.
Hope springs eternal…