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Actually, the Apple II line of computers were not "premium" and these were designed by the Woz as an hacker's computer. The were built to allow user expansion, were easy to get into with the lid simply popping off, and easy to modify. Woz was a hacker so he built his dream machine. The Apple II, at least at first, were comparably priced and equipped with other computers on the market in the late 1970s and early 1980s. My first Apple was an Apple II+.
Jobs was totally against that concept. He refused to take part in that kind of computer and insisted on moving to his concept of the Macintosh. The Mac was sleek and ahead of its time. However, they purposely made it difficult to open up and modify. Any mods cost you a small fortune, just like today.
As far as an iPad Pro ever replacing my need for a "real" laptop or desktop computer--no way in hades! iPadOS is NOT macOS or Windows. iPadOS is designed for finger input, not keyboard input. Trying to create/modify spreadsheets and tasks that are similar are not as easy to accomplish as on a laptop or desktop. iPads might be good for social media, web surfing, playing games, etc. But if I want to get a lot of work done in a professional setting, including spreadsheets, programming, image post processing, etc., I’m not using a flipping iPad! It would take ten times longer on an iPad, and many of the tasks I do can’t even be done on the top of line iPad Pro.
BTW, when I talk about image post processing, I’m not talking about taking crappy iPad/iPhone photos and choosing preselected PP enhancements. I'm talking about using full frame and APS-C cameras, then loading a few GBs of RAW images into Lightroom and using Photoshop to finish the processing. I'm talking about stacking and aligning 100+ large RAW images of a deep sky object. Try that with an iPad.
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