Look – I love my iPad and iPadOS, but with the advent of Apple silicon, it’s possible to pack more power into an iPad than the typical laptop Apple sells. I don’t think they are going to put MacOS on iPad anytime soon, but why not allow an emulator such that users can do this on their own?
And while 16GB RAM isn’t going to be optimum for a virtual PC, I run Parallels on my M1Pro MacBook with 16GB RAM and it’s fine for all sorts of productivity stuff with Windows or MacOS. I spec. my VM’s with 8GB RAM on a 16GB M1Pro and they run great and it doesn’t impede the background MacOS much either.
With an emulator it would be firewalled off from iPadOS enough to mitigate any security concerns. It would also fuel iPad sales – I’m not planning on getting these new iPads because the price vs. utility equation doesn’t work for me. If I could use it as a laptop without the restrictions of iPadOS, then the $2k asking price suddenly starts to make more sense.
Does anyone else want this as much as me?
