It would be sensible/wonderful for Apple to release a deliberately lighter version of MacOS for these laptops; but their intransigence and (e.g.) willingness to hold the iPad’s OS back year after year suggests they won’t.

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happyopossum 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> willingness to hold the iPad’s OS back

Sheesh - in iPadOS you’ve got multitasking, multitouch, full windowing support, external input and monitors, and a ridiculously accurate pen. If that’s holding back, what exactly are you looking for?

I’d still argue a device that size works better with just split screen than the new windowing, but other than the walled garden approach it does pretty much everything today that us techies have been whining about.

	▲	vikramkr 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm seeing a ton of comments like that one about how apple is holding ipados back but am I going crazy or wasn't the big story of iPad is last year how many updates it got to make it more of a desktop replacement? Like half the features you mentioned were added last year plus a calculator app right? There was specifically a whole iPad os refresh that was well received as finally massively boosting iPad pro capabilities? Like, very recently?
	▲	grvbck 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> what exactly are you looking for? File management that doesn't suck, incl. better handling of external drives.
	▲	TingPing 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The ability to install any software would be nice…