[jaxn]

So, a modern Apple IIe?

I used a Comodore 64 plugged into a black and white TV as a kid. This would be the same kind of thing. Sure, an iPad could be the monitor, but so could your TV, or an actual monitor. A computer with storage and input device as a single unit, but without a monitor.

That is quite different from an iPad with detachable keyboard, or even a Microsoft Surface Book (which had auxiliary computing in the keyboard / base, but the CPU and storage was with the display.

I like it. Seems like a great idea to me.