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I have my org's macbook pro, a personal macbook air, and a tablet. I wish the later two could simply be merged. I like how performant and silent the MBA is but there are lots of situation where simply using a tablet is more comfortable, and carrying all three devices is simply not feasible.

The Surface has always been in my eyes but from what I've seen the linux support is not as trivial with newer models.

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> a personal macbook air, and a tablet. I wish the latest two could simply be merged

Un-crippling of Apple Silicon iPads with Magic Keyboards, which have a superset of MacBook Air features, can happen via:

  - Competition from Linux on Qualcomm Oryon tablets and 2-in-1
  - New Apple leadership
  - EU regulation to unlock dual-boot of other operating systems, like Linux/BSD
  - Future jailbreak

That's also my wish. The Asahi project somehow gives me a bit of hope but I remember the authors saying that porting it to an iPad is simply not possible because of some booting mechanisms, and dev'in on a jailbroken device was not its preference, which is understandable.

Those who saved blobs for iOS 16.3.1 can run VMs on their jailbroken Apple Silicon iPad.

https://x.com/utmapp/status/1708907045314035986

  Apple removed Hypervisor support from XNU in iOS 16.4. Here is a diff of iOS 16.3.1 and iOS 16.4. What this means is that even if a jailbreak/TrollStore comes out for iOS 16.6.1/17.0, there will not be UTM virtualization support, even on M1/M2 iPads.

MacOS app to save blobs: https://github.com/airsquared/blobsaver

An iPad as is has never really appealed, but if I could run macOS in a VM - or something to that effect - I would be very tempted.

Sadly it doesn’t seem that Apple are really interested in offering that.

I have used various Surface devices as well - and whilst they are fine with the keyboard attached, I’ve never loved the touch experience on Windows.

If what you want is a good 2 in 1 I personally heard only good things about the Lenovo Yoga that my SO is using.

I have one of those for work. It's pretty amazing, but I have to run Windows on it. My IdeaPad, though, runs Fedora for three years now, and I am typing this on it: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2021/08/26/1400

I daily openSUSE Tumbleweed on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga, and while I don't use the 2-in-1 functionality a lot, I've found it to be a solid experience.

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