![]() It also has no battery, so it needs to be plugged in. The price is higher than a comparable Macbook Pro for the iPad and Mac together, plus it doesn’t include a keyboard or mouse. While this has better performance than a Macbook Pro it might actually have some perks, since Apple continues to refuse to make a laptop with a touchscreen. A 3D printed case with a traditional laptop clamshell design takes care of physically combining these two devices, and a USB-C cable between the two takes care of combining them in software thanks to Apple’s Duet program. ![]() ![]() Noticing that a modern iPad Mini has exactly the same width of his Mac Mini, set about combining the two devices into a single unit that he could assemble when traveling. wanted to solve that in his own life by building a custom Mac laptop with none of these downsides. They do tend to have a sharp performance reduction compared to a desktop though thanks to the thermal and battery limitations of a portable form factor. For traveling, as a student, or even for browsing Hackaday on the couch in front of the TV, they are pretty much indispensable. Most of us either own or have used a laptop at some point.
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