Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip

Re:Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip by philwelch on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:49PM (#18410786)

If you have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, it's (theoretically) possible to use a smartphone as a desktop PC. That's also the least popular form factor for a computing device these days. Laptops or tablets would, even on the physical level, be much harder to pull off this way.

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Re:Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip by dragonwriter on Thursday November 08, 2018 @06:03PM (#18410870)

For a laptop, all you need is a keyboard/screen clamshell unit with a docking port for the phone where a drive would be on a typical laptop.

A tablet is pretty similar, but the dock needs to be behind the screen, which probably makes a thicker than average tablet. Or you just make a foldable phone which folds out to a tablet.

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Re:Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip by philwelch on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:24AM (#18412886)

Even the laptop would be thicker than average unless you’re measuring by early 2000’s standards.

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