> He wanted an objectively perfect, extremely thin portless wireless machine.
i mean that is the ipad pro with a keyboard. (not perfect comparison i guess but is closer to that ideal)
The mbp is supposed to be for professionals and that comes with a need for flexibility and functionality. the quest for thinness was misguided in my opinion.
The iPad Pro fails at many laptop-esque tasks. I tried during a vacation, and it was way more work and way slower than it needed to be, and it wasn't because it wasn't powerful enough, it was the OS. Dumping photos from an SD card with not apple photos ran into a lot of annoyances and was a lot slower than doing the same thing with a 5 year macbook pro at that point, something that is objectively slower in the CPU realm and were both using USB2 speed SD card readers of some sort. Not to mention iOS's hostility to backgroup apps, making my file syncing app need to be on the foreground all the time for it to sync my photos to my E2E encrypted cloud drive.
A convertible M1 MacBook Air would probably be a better iPad Pro than that iPad Pro would be, and I think that is where apple is going with the "touch-size-ification" of macOS. iPad Procreate running full screen on a macOS convertable would give you %95 of the iPad experience TBH. A laptop is better than an iPad for videos and web browsing TBH.
Yeah i would be totally sold to a M2 macbook pro 2 in 1 with
decent GPU and Pen support. This enables to run things like blender with pen and other stuff.
Right now, there are only windows 2 in 1 laptop which i find subpar on build quality.
i mean that is the ipad pro with a keyboard. (not perfect comparison i guess but is closer to that ideal)
The mbp is supposed to be for professionals and that comes with a need for flexibility and functionality. the quest for thinness was misguided in my opinion.