> there’s essentially (literally?) no difference between an iPad and MacBook hardware

Form factor. Touch screen. GPS. Cellular. Circular polarization. These are all literal hardware differences between the iPad and MacBook, and every single one of them makes the iPad suitable for my use case (ForeFlight running on an iPad mounted to the yoke) where a MacBook would not be.

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bigyabai 6 days ago | parent [-]

You can get a laptop with all those built-in, though. The only reason the Mac lacks those things is artificial market segmentation.

	▲	addaon 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Also, can you give an example of a laptop (or non-Apple tablet) with a circularly polarized LCD? I've never been able to find one, but it's not a spec that's often published…
	▲	addaon 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sure, but none of them run ForeFlight, so…