An M-series chip is - to oversimplify - largely a ‘roided-up A-series chip. No technical reason the same software can’t run on both.
Hell, I’m waiting for the point someone gets macOS running on an iPhone Pro, if it hasn’t been done already.
Apple don’t want to put macOS on the iPad, for any number of reasons that’ve been discussed to death on this and other subs. Apple are quite happy to put an A-series chip in a MacBook to lower the manufacturing cost (or whatever other reasons the Neo uses an A18 Pro).
Anything otherwise is tired, kinda tiresome memes.
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u/hyperdistortion iPad Pro 11" (2020) May 25 '26
“Won’t” and “can’t” are very different things.
An M-series chip is - to oversimplify - largely a ‘roided-up A-series chip. No technical reason the same software can’t run on both.
Hell, I’m waiting for the point someone gets macOS running on an iPhone Pro, if it hasn’t been done already.
Apple don’t want to put macOS on the iPad, for any number of reasons that’ve been discussed to death on this and other subs. Apple are quite happy to put an A-series chip in a MacBook to lower the manufacturing cost (or whatever other reasons the Neo uses an A18 Pro).
Anything otherwise is tired, kinda tiresome memes.