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I can see a change to an SSD making sense, but an SSD in a case just looks like a bland rectangle like this icon, and a bare one just looks like it could be any chip on a PCB, there's nothing distinctive to work from.  Even the old hard drive icon looks like a special fancy hard drive.  Something else!

I thought it would be cool to have MacOs running on an iPad, I still do out of curiosity, but really what I wanted was more capability.  The files app especially needed to be more fully featured, I haven't tried the new OS yet, but if they get it right then maybe that will be enough.  Or maybe I'll try it and there'll be some other problem keeping me from using it as a laptop replacement, but files was the main one I noticed.

Full MacOS would make the iPad too complicated, and yeah dual boot would be ok but that's not Apple's style.  Plus then developing the OS's they'd need to account for the iPadOS and the "people running MacOS on iPad" crowd, and that's probably some extra work or it'd be buggy.  Consumers might be confused if they went to use an iPad and then sometimes it acts like an iPad at their house but other times it acts like a macbook at their nerdy friend's house.  Also some people are just plain bad at using computers and these simplified devices really work for them.  I can see them not wanting to complicate it.  As long as they keep adding features and making it usable as a laptop replacement then I don't know if I see greed as the underlying cause for not doing it, as much as product lineup differentiation.

I’m in a subset of that 30% as I have multiple Macs and most things Apple makes. If they want to sell more Macs they’d do well to lower prices on storage upgrades. I had to shell out for a 4tb ssd and I could’ve really used 8tb for what I do. Unfortunately it’s too expensive. The SSD’s are clearly high speed, seem to be high quality, but the price is too much.

omasou said:

When Job's returned he greatly simplified the product lineup mess Sculley had created.

I would 100% like to see the MBP take on the MB form factor in terms of weight (today's battery is too large) and the MB take on the MBP's additional TB ports and drop the extraneous MBP ports, MagSafe, HDMI and most of all the memory card slot.

It use to be so easy to plug TB/USB C cables into my MBP but now I have to look at what I'm doing b/c I keep trying to plug into one of the other ports that I'll NEVER use.

The battery life and power of the current MacBook Pros has enabled me to do my work on a laptop which I could never do before.   I’ve had to travel a lot recently and I’ve been able to work while traveling which has enabled me to help some family members out without going broke.  

I can see the argument and it has merit, but I don’t know Apple Silicon has been around long enough for me to definitively agree.  I have a M1Max MacBook Pro with 64GB RAM.  Doing video projects with large RAW video files it rarely uses 32GB, which is definitely less than before, but that’s just one niche area of video work, there’s others. The only time it maxed it out was when the software had an error and ate up all the RAM.  Also Apple’s RAM is being used to replace VRAM so it’s doing double duty and it’s doing it well.