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About that A18 Pro MacBook rumor

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21 points tosh | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 16:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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steveBK123 ◴[04 Jul 25 16:55 UTC] No.44466084[source]▶
Interesting from a cost perspective but I hope it doesn’t introduce any oddities in software compatibility.

There’s already things the M chip series iPads can do that the A chip series can’t.

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xattt ◴[04 Jul 25 17:03 UTC] No.44466145[source]▶
The new multitasking features (movable windows, pseudo-desktop environment) of iPadOS might be telegraphing an “iBook” line-up.

Meanwhile, the MacBook stays with the M chips.

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msgodel ◴[04 Jul 25 17:27 UTC] No.44466360[source]▶
OSX could run just fine on the iPad today. There's no technical limitation, there's nothing to develop (nothing non-trivial anyway.)

OSX does not run on the iPad because it would give iPad users an escape from profitable "value add."

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ch_sm ◴[04 Jul 25 17:40 UTC] No.44466429[source]▶
Also, it doesn‘t run on iPads because it would be very difficult to use all these mouse and keyboard centric UIs with only your finger.
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1. msgodel ◴[04 Jul 25 17:51 UTC] No.44466519{3}[source]▶
Nah. I used a phone for two years running Linux with FVWM and mostly VTE apps. If anything keyboard driven UIs are nicer on touch screens since the controls don't slide over each other all the time.

Most people think they would be bad because they haven't tried them.

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2. burnerthrow008 ◴[04 Jul 25 21:01 UTC] No.44467865[source]▶
But macOS is not primarily a keyboard driven UI?