I did this, but it really is kludgy. Hackintoshes are miserable beasts that have an issue just when you need them most.
Iām not advocating a Hackintosh - just dispelling the notion that MacOS wonāt work in a touch environment - aka on an iPad Pro - because it CLEARLY DOES on a third party hacking project right out of the box.
To me this is proof that Apple is screwing itās iPad Pro usersā¦
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YES! 100% Yes! I watched the video and he is right. That is much more stable than when I did it on my SP2 years ago. And it absolutely does prove that touch and pen would work just fine!
They simply donāt care and my macpad dreams are definitely dead at this point. 
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AMEN - for heavenās sake it is running on MICROSOFT SPECIFIC HARDWARE - especially the pen input!
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I feel like the only question left is whether I want a Surface Pro device to go with my Windows laptopāwhich would mean I wouldnāt have to cater to the weirdness of iOS/iPadOS.
As an example, for Scrivener, I have to use Dropbox to sync with iPadOS Scrivener. For Obsidian, I have to use iCloud Drive to sync with iPadOS Obsidian. Instead I could use my personal cloud server for both.
But the App experience would probably be worse (unless MS comes through with a great Android experienceāBluestacks was terrible). Can I live with worse and get a full device?
Kinda ironic.
Maybe a small ray of hope - one of the toughest critics thinks thereās promise in the iPadOS 17 Stage Manager
@Desertlap gave us a glimmer of hope that more robust (full feature) versions of major software titles may be coming to iPad.
Now, if they would just give us a REAL hierarchical file manager and unrestricted support for external storage, we are thereā¦
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You also need the ability to run arbitrary applications, including developer tools.
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Donāt see that weāll ever get that given there was no XCode announcementā¦
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Yes, it kills me that doing any sort of even scripting/automation on the iPad is so difficult.
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Every time I see a ray of hope on the MacPad front I come back to the reality that I would vote 100% for an 11" Intel Surface Pro with 5g, but for my reliance (addiction) on iMessage, FaceTime, and News+. It also makes it perfectly clear to me there will NEVER be an iMessage or FaceTime for Android or Windows.
So despite my posts and interests here in the forums, I am resigning myself to a life of Surface Pro plus an iPhone 15 Pro Max going forward this fall. Whether it is my trusty SP8 or a dreamed of 11" SP10 5g is still in question. Seems that 5g is being strictly reserved for ARM, so LTE is looking like the present and future for now.
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Youāll be back tilting at that windmill again. Itās inevitable.
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That actually looks quite nice and definitely solves one of my greatest pain points! Like you said, just need a real file manager and it could maybe workā¦
Installed the beta and I donāt know. I played with the new Stage Manager for a few minutes, and it still sucks. Too much wasted spaceānot enough freedom on where to place apps. Canāt even have total freedom on what size to make apps. And then the settings app has different sizes available than the firefox app. Just a mess. Trips my OCD. Ugg.
Why am I not surprised? :vb-disagree:
Why am I continuing to follow Appleās technology Batan death march for the iPad? 
Why do I pursue the 2.7 oz lighter iPad Pro? :vb-crazy:
Time to withdraw to the new Plan A - Surface Pro + iPhone 15 Pro Max and go off into the sunsetā¦ :vb-surrender:
AND NO skeptical snark old pals (especially you Ted @Dellaster) 
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It is still a long way from being a MacPad, but iPadOS 17 appears to be bringing the iPad Pro closer to a laptop alternative (taking @Dellaster 's admonition about lowering expectations and have dropped the āreplacementā term) - Fernando is a serious iPad supporter, but still a good feature reviewer:
NOW:
For Apple:
Letās add āsnapā to that window management
Please, please, please beef up Files
Lighter and more screen adjustable magic keyboard (unicorny?)
M$ youāre up to bat next:
Really need more robust Office 365 (and easier multi-windows of the same app - 2 or more Word docs)
More parity of OneNote with Windows features
Better support for OneDrive
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A quick follow up to Fernandoās review - it still looks like 2024 will be the year to consider upgrade/switch for users, only because the rumor mill has focused on a few of critical improvements: M3 (3nm); OLED displays; and a landscape oriented camera. These three changes, and the obvious big price increase they will bring, are changes that will make a big difference long term for iPadOS development.
Yeah, I am surprised, but I find myself missing the camera on my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 (as opposed to previous usage of my Book 12) more than I was expecting.
I still wonder if MS isnāt missing a trick by making a small Android unit which runs only Outlook, OneNote, Teams, Word, and Excel, w/ an option to access Access databases.
Iām sure they would say - you just described Surface Go 3, but WITHOUT the Android constraints. Maybe the rumored Surface Pro 11" will get us close(r)ā¦
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I see Iām not the only one who has given up on a MacPad - even the Apple faithful (think Jason Snell = Daniel Rubino):
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