A modder created the iPadBook that Apple won’t

The iPadBook doubles arsenic a MacBook Air and an iPad Pro. | Screenshot: YouTube

Apple has small involvement successful merging iPadOS and macOS, oregon bringing its desktop operating strategy to its touchscreen tablet. So a Chinese modder took it upon themselves to make a hybrid laptop they’re calling the iPadBook featuring some operating systems successful a azygous instrumentality that lets you power from macOS to iPadOS by simply detaching its screen.

Modder Shu Chan started by removing the show from an M1 MacBook Air and installing a custom-designed, 3D-printed magnetic hinge they’ve dubbed MagBaka that uses 12 magnets to clasp an iPad Pro successful spot arsenic its replacement screen. The dock works alongside a customized lawsuit for the iPad Pro, and though the tablet isn’t rather arsenic wide arsenic the MacBook Air erstwhile connected, there’s a precocious level of polish to this mod that astir makes it look similar thing Apple would make.

When attached, the iPad Pro serves arsenic an outer (and primary) show for the MacBook Air implicit with interaction and Apple Pencil support, and erstwhile removed it becomes a modular M4-powered iPad Pro.