[selykg]

I want that experience I seen on some other device at some point... Palm? I forget now.

In tablet mode, iPad OS. Touch being the primary operation. Basically just as we see it now.

In a pseudo desktop mode, macOS, where you get the power of a laptop in a smaller form factor. You can optionally try to use this in touch mode in a pinch but it's not necessarily designed for it.

The win would be seamless switching. Including apps... if I have photoshop open on iPad, dock, convert to Photoshop for Mac. I.e. you "dock" your iPad and it converts to a more Mac-like experience. Undock, you get the iPad experience.

To me, this would be ideal. I don't generally _need_ a laptop for personal use, so this would be a serious boon for me as I use my iPad all the time in the evening for simple consumption, but I also have a MacBook over here that gets used a few times a week, which is a costly device for how little it gets used.

[rtkwe]

There was the Motorola Atrix that had a dual mode system where you could plug the phone into a keyboard, larger battery, and big screen in a mostly laptop form factor. Never used it myself though because the keyboard module was expensive for at the time.

[selykg]

Ohhh that might have been what I was thinking of! Good memory!

[rtkwe]

I had one and wish I had the spare money at the time for the laptop portion of the unit but that was college years for me and I wasn't working during the school year just the summer and longer breaks.

That phone is still kicking around my drawers somewhere.

[yencabulator]

ChromeOS tablets behave like this. Connect a keyboard and the UI switches to desktop mode.