They will run macOS. The iPad is a great piece of hardware and has been so for years. The biggest reason they did not replace/kill the Macbooks was and is the O

They will run macOS. The iPad is a great piece of hardware and has been so for years. The biggest reason they did not replace/kill the Macbooks was and is the OS. All the artificial limitations set by Apple prevent it being used as a computer - and despite people went to crazy amounts of effort to work around this. It seems, that Apple has at least partially recognized it, and takes some small steps in the direction of the iPad being a computer. The new magic keyboard and mouse/trackpad support are a great start. But unless you have the freedom to develop and run your software on an iPad, it will never be a "computer". It still is a great device which is useful to many, but not to a large group of people. This doesn't mean that the Mac and the iPad cannot share more technology and both benefit both from that. But with the new magic keyboard available, the one big reason for owning a macbook are the differences between iPadOS and macOS.