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> Do people like the Macbook Neo?

People have been begging for MacOS on the iPad... and here it is, but in different clothing. The Neo is just a test bed before committing MacOS to the iPad.

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I don't understand this comment. In everything it does this is a MacBook, not an iPad. It doesnt have a touch screen. It has a fixed keyboard.

It has an iPad chip, and is at an iPad price --- if it sells well, and doesn't gut iPad sales, then maybe we'll get Mac OS on iPad (but I'm not holding my breath) --- a more interesting development would be for someone to work out how to transfer the Mac OS from a Neo onto an iPad w/ the same chip.

IPad pro exists with an M5 as well. And is prices basically the same as an MacBook air.

fair point --- as I noted, I'm not holding my breath, and I don't think it likely, but maybe the above is why some folks think this might happen.

Dear lord in heaven I hope this is true. My work laptop is an M2 Air and I recently got them to spring for an M5 iPad Pro as a companion device. Whenever I'm using it as a wireless second screen I am acutely aware that it both has a larger display and significantly more powerful processor than the laptop it's serving as an extension of.

I hope it isn't. The UI on macOS has been going to shit for years. Squeezing touch into it would accelerate that.

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