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Everyone knows that iPadOS does not begin to take advantage of the capability of the iPad pro's. Even Apple knows that, obviously. So what are they to do? How much more can iPadOS be tweaked to give it the versatility and power it should have? It makes perfect sense to me that Apple would port a (severely modified?) version of MacOS to the iPad. In fact, I'll be surprised if they don't -- what other option is there for them? They certainly cannot start with a completely new OS, and it seems to me that iPadOS has constraints built in that will not allow it to address the enormous capabilities of the new iPad Pros.

hattig said:

LanceMeAlot said:

I have a mackbook air M1 for working purposes. For office, and online work it’s fantastic but as soon as you use MS teams for a meeting, sharing a screen and video conferencing, the cpu get’s too hot. And because there is no fan inside MacOS makes the cpu’s work slower to avoid heat problems. And then the machine will get very slow. Therefore I would always buy the 13” mackbook pro to avoid this problem.

MS Teams does that on 16 core behemoth desktop systems - it's not the system, it's the appalling software from MS.

Sometimes I have to use Excel, but I prefer Numbers. Word is, imo, a terrible app and I avoid it at all costs. Nisuswriter Pro is a wonderful WP app and (thank heavens) will open Word files. It saves files in rtf, which is readable by Word. Why in the world does everyone use Word? 

The 12" MacBook was a beautiful machine -- I still use mine (2017) and find it adequate for everything I do, though I use a 16" MBP (intel) on my desk because of its bigger screen. I have never had trouble with the butterfly keyboard and have no trouble typing on it. The MacBook was Ive's masterpiece, and as soon as he left it was discontinued. Very sad. There's something especially satisfying to using such an esthetically beautiful computer.

I replaced the 2tb hard drive in my Time Capsule with a 4tb one. It's been working fine for ~6 years, perhaps because I'm not using the 3tb hard drive that came with some of the TC's. With an adapter, it would be easy to attach a small drive or an ssd instead of the large hd. A ssd would generate very little heat, and the TC might last for years.

It seems to me that there's a good and bad side to going to ARM. The good part is that Apple gets to control the CPU, developing it according to its needs, rather than having to craft its Mac hardware around a CPU developed by someone else without Apple in mind. ARM should enable Apple to market less expensive machines that have better battery life and probably lots of other nice features not available on intel PC's. The bad part is that Apple is cutting itself off from lots of standard software developed by non-Mac people that may never be ported over. See the post above from jharner. It will be extremely interesting to see how this turns out. Myself, I would love to have an ARM MacBook (without butterfly keys), but I don't even know what Docker, cuda etc. are. For people like me, the ARM computers will probably be fantastic. For people like jharner, not so much.