alt Hacker News100%. My POV is really just "if I could fold my MBP into a tablet without any compromise, and that feature costed an extra couple hundred more than an equally specced non-touch MBP, I probably would go for it and barely use it"
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dpark • yesterday at 7:15 PM
Yeah. It’s appealing in theory. On windows devices I made that choice a few times. I wouldn’t anymore.
If nothing else, the more complex hinges create significantly higher failure risk.
Apple could do this by allowing you to run macOS on an iPad. Magic Keyboard is detachable and doubles as a cover/case. Without it, it's a tablet. With it, it's a laptop with reasonable compromises. SoCs in some iPads are the same as in some MacBooks. It's just software that's letting it down.