It would seem remaining , to a time traveler from the year 2012 , that the post - PC world still has n’t materialized and Apple continues to betray traditional laptop computer . Not only has the iPad break to sack the MacBook , but it has n’t even been combined with it as a intercrossed gimmick , despite vociferous customer pursuit in such a Cartesian product .
One Apple follower , indeed , has become so disappointed with the continued non - existence of an iPad - MacBook hybrid that he has taken matters into his own hands . Federico Viticci , the tech writer and podcaster who founded MacStories , announce Mondaythat he had finished employment on what he name as the “ MacPad , ” a bizarre - looking mashup of the two product . It blend a full - size keyboard from a MacBook Air with an 11 - inch iPad Pro . Viticci essay a 12.9 - inch Pro , which is closer in sizing to the 13 - inch MacBook Air , but find that , while it apparently looked easily , it was too heavy .
The article explicate the method acting and rationale behind this undertaking isverylong and technical , and ( we would guess ) manner outside the comfort zone of the average DIY enthusiast . It ’s also extremely telling , in the same way of life that eating twoColin the Caterpillar cakeswould be telling : you ’d shake the hombre ’s paw while wondering why he think it was a expert idea .
For years I ’ve felt that an iPad - Mac cross is a non - starter , for two independent reason : touchscreen laptop computer are teasing to use – it is n’t a natural complement to a keyboard and trackpad , and get to up to touch a vertically aligned cover is wearing – and iPads are already good enough at being transformable laptop computer substitutes that there is n’t a compelling case for reinvent the wheel . But Viticci has managed to find a niche employment case in which the MacPad just about makes mother wit .
The Florida key is Vision Pro and its currently unsatisfactory typewriting support . ( In ourreviewwe explain that “ if you require to type sentences , twin a Bluetooth keyboard ismandatory . ” ) Viticci says he tried using Apple ’s Magic Trackpad and Keyboard with the headset , among other choice , but kept coming back to the ending that the best keyboard setup would be an actual MacBook . But that this MacBook would be heavy than it necessitate to be , and less versatile because most of the sentence he would n’t be using its screen . Hence the desire to saw off a MacBook ’s screenland and turn it into an iPad bobtail .
I can just about see the logic behind all of this in a perfectionist and hyperspecific recess . ( just anyone has purchase a Vision Pro headset , and almost all of those have line up that a conventional Bluetooth keyboard is more than decent for typewrite . ) But the MacPad project feel like something that was done to march what could be done rather than as a hardheaded necessity . Viticci was so preoccupied with whether or not he could , he did n’t quit to think if he should .
