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Macbooks dont even have a touchscreen.

edit: why downvotes? machines like that are also replacement for a tablet.

Not having a touchscreen is a big plus point these days. It usually means you get to use much more precise input devices instead!

Touchscreen devices with touch-centric operating systems/UI systems will never replace 'proper computers' for 'serious software' as everything has to be so completely dumbed-down for touch, simply because you can't build a complex and feature-rich UI for such a limited input device.

I guess this reasoning makes a sense in apple ecosystem. But why not both options in single device?

My 7 years old dell can replace desktop workstation and tablet. Its replacement better have the same features.

I don't think this will always be the case. Applications like Bitwig Studio have both traditional and touch interfaces. It's only a change in GUI. I can see most applications in the future having "responsive" gui layouts like how web designers deal with screen sizes, but for touch interfaces.

If macbooks and ipads were one product, people would buy that one product instead of both, halving Apple's profits on them. ;)

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