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At a mere 13 millimeters thick and weighing just two pounds, the new Macbook might replace the iPad for some. The new MacBook is an iPad with a keyboard. That may be the best description of the new Apple laptop design, based on Apple’s  launch event  on Monday. At a mere 13 millimeters thick and weighing just two pounds, it approaches the iPad’s portability and is just as spartan, sporting only a  solitary connector.  PLAY VIDEO Why We Should Care About Quantum Computing With mega companies like Microsoft, Google and IBM quietly investing in quantum computing development, word is starting to leak out that the out-there technology with the sci-fi name might be a part of our lives sooner rather than later. DNEWS DCI Consumers tired of trying to shoehorn their iPad into a laptop (i.e., do real work on their iPad) may have finally found the ideal replacement. The new MacBook will replace the iPad for some people, according to Andy ...

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) Apple is set to cap a busy few weeks with another product event on Thursday, which is expected to involve new iPads and iMacs. Hot on the heels of last month’s glitzy Apple watch and iPhone launch , as well as the recent iOS 8 update problems, the Cupertino, Calif.-based firm is likely to brandish new tablets during the event at its corporate headquarters. “I think that we will see new iPads, but I don’t expect them to be earth-shatteringly different [to current iPads],” Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research, told FoxNews.com. “TouchID could be an obvious feature and we might see a resolution increase in the display – they introduced a Retina HD display in the new iPhones, so it’s possible that we could see that on the new iPads as well.” With Retina display technology, the current iPad and iPad Air offer 2048-by-1536 resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi), while the highest resolution iPad Mini is 2048-by-1536 at 326 ppi with...