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You can, of course, use a keyboard with an iPad. That's how I use my iPad at work. Is it just as good as a macbook pro for all tasks? No, but I have an iMac 5K as my home computer and an iPad Pro 12.9 for my mobile use. I use to carry a macbook pro, but stopped carrying it several years ago. The iPad did just as well for the vast majority of tasks that I used my macbook pro for so I was carrying the extra weight and never using it.
Apple tends to try to find that sweet spot for customer usage. Even after being available for several years and having a massive media blitz, the Microsoft surface is still far, far below both the mac and the iPad in terms of sales. Microsoft sells around a million surfaces per quarter while Apple sells some 14 million iPads per quarter. I just don't see a compelling case for Apple to sell a surface like tablet/laptop. That's not to dismiss your preference, of course. Your preference is just as good as anyone elses, but I don't think the numbers support what you want.
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