How is one “optimized” for this or that? They’re both just computers.
Well, a sports car and a truck, and a Mini Cooper and an 18-wheeler are all road vehicles too.
The difference is tradeoffs, optimization, cost, user experience, and so on.
The iPad could indeed get the ability to be used as a Mac (hook cable to hub, perhaps monitor, full macOS etc). It would still not exactly be optimized for that, it would need all the extra stuff, but it would work.
A Macbook with a touch screen not so much. It would either have to be detachable (like some PC models), which comes with certain tradeoffs, limits on construction, materials, battery life, thinness (as the screen would need to be able to work autonomously, thus have the CPU and everything), etc.
Or it could be a laptop with a touch screen (again, like some other PC laptop models), which would give an unatural, unergonomic experience.
>Heck, maybe it would be interesting to work on touchscreen software on a touchscreen computer in a touch oriented IDE or editor, no?
Based on our experience with laptops that have that, not that interesting in the end. There's a reason we don't see people using those PC laptops that have that using them for the touch screen in the wild, and that they haven't really caught on.
Well, a sports car and a truck, and a Mini Cooper and an 18-wheeler are all road vehicles too.
The difference is tradeoffs, optimization, cost, user experience, and so on.
The iPad could indeed get the ability to be used as a Mac (hook cable to hub, perhaps monitor, full macOS etc). It would still not exactly be optimized for that, it would need all the extra stuff, but it would work.
A Macbook with a touch screen not so much. It would either have to be detachable (like some PC models), which comes with certain tradeoffs, limits on construction, materials, battery life, thinness (as the screen would need to be able to work autonomously, thus have the CPU and everything), etc.
Or it could be a laptop with a touch screen (again, like some other PC laptop models), which would give an unatural, unergonomic experience.
>Heck, maybe it would be interesting to work on touchscreen software on a touchscreen computer in a touch oriented IDE or editor, no?
Based on our experience with laptops that have that, not that interesting in the end. There's a reason we don't see people using those PC laptops that have that using them for the touch screen in the wild, and that they haven't really caught on.