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by hu3 1028 days ago
> Until the m1 is was 100% not possible.

Microsoft made that possible at least 6 years ago with Surface Book. Why couldn't Apple? (spoiler they could)

https://youtu.be/SdQQ8uvylJ0?si=as1k5R5BhFTZiys_&t=106

And there are other brands too: https://www.ign.com/articles/best-detachable-laptops

Took me 10 seconds to Google. Why do people go to these great lengths to defend giant soulless corporations is beyond me.

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Sure, and they don’t sell particularly well. That whole segment of the Microsoft ecosystem is a dusty corner that doesn’t get a lot of respect.

Hell, Microsoft has had a tablet offering since 2003 or earlier. It’s hard to do touch and traditional and do justice to both.

different cpu architects - surface book is still just x86 under the hood.

ios is arm, macbooks were x86, now is arm. thats why. it is impressive what rosetta 2 does, but it still impacts a significant performance and battery hiut

Now why they didn't make a touch macbook/detachable screen with osx is another question, and likely because there isnt the demand. i was just addressing why you couldn't just smush ios and osx together/run both on the same device