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by CoolGuySteve 107 days ago
My monitor has a powered USB-C port and USB hub built into it. It's one cable to dock a laptop, it's pretty cool.

If I could plug my iPad into that cable to use it as a Mac I would do that all the time and buy a more powerful iPad. It would be an iPad for idle browsing and a Mac for the times I need a real computer.
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StilesCrisis 106 days ago
You almost can. With Stage Manager enabled, an iPad plugged into a Studio Display is shockingly Mac-like. You get a menubar, windows that resize, a mouse pointer, etc. I could easily convince someone that they were on a Mac if I hid the iPad.

I don't like Stage Manager at all in undocked mode, though. I wish it would just turn on when the iPad was docked, and turn off otherwise.

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raw_anon_1111 106 days ago
I don’t see any reason you couldn’t. iOS supports all of the standard USB C protocols.
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vladvasiliu 106 days ago
Presumably because you can't use the "advanced" apps which you can use on an actual mac?
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CoolGuySteve 106 days ago
Because it's not a Mac even though the chipset is the same, there's no XCode and whatnot.
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