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As a long-time iPad user, who’s been covering Apple for several years, I’ve had a growing suspicion: iPads are basically just laptops now.
In 2024, when Apple launched the iPad Pro with M4 chip — before they’d even put that chip in a MacBook — alongside the iPad Air with M2 chip (and then the M3 version just a few months later), all signs showed my inclination was right. Apple wants its tablets to be as powerful as its laptops.
But the final piece of evidence to prove my hypothesis came at Apple’s 2025 WWDC, when the brand announced the newest feature coming to iPads called “Windows.” The feature allows users to resize the app windows within the screen to view multiple applications at once. While this feature is new to iPads, it’s been a standard feature of laptops for most of their existence.
If the math is mathing the way I think it is, Apple’s iPads are basically just laptops now. Here’s how Apple is turning its tablets into laptops, and why they might be the more affordable option.
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