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I've been expecting a iPadTop ever since the A series chips started beating medium-end Intel chips in browser benchmarks. Just imagine how thin the device could be, how could Apple not do it? The A12X should be more than powerful enough to make a notebook feel snappy. It would be sort of an Apple Chromebook.

If you add in the heritage of NeXT, you will find more transitions. And while Apple only supported two platforms at a time, NeXT simultaneously supported various architectures: x86, PA-RISC, and SPARC. (And maybe 68k, but not sure if that was concurrent with the others)

Considering that Microsoft is doing it, it's not unlikely. But, they seem to also push iPad forward.

Didn't Intel start passively aggressively signalling that they'd start enforcing their patents with lawsuits if companies do that?

Yes, but that’s solveable by buying AMD.