[iagooar]

This is nuts. The iPad Pro is so massively ahead of the game, it's even hard to believe. It is faster than the MBP 2017 and ALMOST as fast as the MBP 2018. We're talking a device that is 5.9mm thick and is battery-powered!

Now here's my prediction: Apple does not really want to build an ARM-powered MBP. Instead, they will eventually allow iPads to double boot into iOS and/or MacOS.

Call me crazy, but this would be huge. Of course, Apple would still build traditional laptops, maybe even with ARM processors in them, but only as a byproduct of their iPhone / iPad product line.

[threeseed]

This will never, ever happen.

You can't use OSX with your finger. There are millions of places across the OS and applications where the hit point is too small for a finger. You just need to compare the keys on the iOS keyboard and then compare that to the traffic lights on OSX.

[iagooar]

Mouse support :)

[kllrnohj]

> This is nuts. The iPad Pro is so massively ahead of the game, it's even hard to believe. It is faster than the MBP 2017 and ALMOST as fast as the MBP 2018. We're talking a device that is 5.9mm thick and is battery-powered!

The MBP's are also battery-powered & thin?

But you seem to be taking geekbench 4 here as gospel. I'd take that with a grain of salt. A really, really big grain of salt.

Even with that said I'm not even seeing any MBP 2017 results in the article...?

[xvector]

Tim Cook himself flat out said they have no intention of ever merging MacOS and iOS or converging the two in any way.

[dragonwriter]

Yeah, and Apple never turns around in a couple years and does what the CEO said they had no intention of doing. (Big phones, tablet stylus, ...)

[iagooar]

Merging does not equal dual boot. They'd still be separate pieces of software, but the ability to run MacOS on iPad hardware would be huge.

[xvector]

I just don't see Apple ever adding a feature as convoluted as dual-boot. That's just about the least Apple software feature they could add.