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Apple Patents Switch-Less Force Touch Keyboard, Could Lead to Thinner Macs
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I'd quite like the BTO option of a quad-core i7 and a dedicated GPU in the 13" MacBook Pro. Then again, Jony Ive would visibly palpitate and lick his lips in delicious anticipation of shredding another millimetre from the structure.
Hopefully they'll stick with thinness in the MacBook and MacBook Air, while dedicating better hardware to the MacBook Pro at the expense of thinness/lightness - it's meant to be a Pro machine, after all.
Hopefully they'll stick with thinness in the MacBook and MacBook Air, while dedicating better hardware to the MacBook Pro at the expense of thinness/lightness - it's meant to be a Pro machine, after all.
Oh Apple, I don't even know what to say anymore...
Green computing my ass, when all your products are so hard to repair without forking over the serious dough for your out-of-warranty repairs, which is silly, because I am skilled, but I also know that adhesives are just a PITA.
Green my ass...
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Green computing my ass, when all your products are so hard to repair without forking over the serious dough for your out-of-warranty repairs, which is silly, because I am skilled, but I also know that adhesives are just a PITA.
Green my ass...
True, shows their way of thinking and their priorities somewhat though.
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A thinner iMac? FINALLY.
It's the one thing that's been holding me off replacing my 2008 iMac with optical drive. I just hope it's a lot lighter, too. That's the other thing that bugs me, whenever I have to carry it around. /s
It's the one thing that's been holding me off replacing my 2008 iMac with optical drive. I just hope it's a lot lighter, too. That's the other thing that bugs me, whenever I have to carry it around. /s
When they're so thin and invisible your iPhone/iPad/Mac is a hologram projected from autonomous Apple cars doing their loops throughout your city, all your content and apps stored in [their] Apple Cloud.
OS X works perfectly fine on a touchscreen, better than with a mouse, so long as it's a large display. OS X on a big Wacom Cintiq is the finest mac experience there is.
It just doesn't scale down to tiny portable devices well. While touchscreens are great for phones and PDA's, they are also unbeatable for professional creative work. Apple's missing the boat on this currently, but eventually a few old conservative executives will retire, and then they'll play catch up again.
Buttons have existed for a lot longer than that. There's a reason they work well for input. Not saying there won't be a time when we'll have the technology to completely fool our senses, but until then their removal will remain a compromise.
Pfft, speak for yourself. Until I can use my iMac to cut through my man-sized slab of Scamorza cheese, I won't be satisfied. It's still not thin enough!!
It might just work. The Magic Trackpad 2 has no moving parts yet "clicking" on it certainly feels like it has moved down as I've pressed on it.
Ugh... does this not seem like a defensive patent to anyone?
If it is a "real" thing, would it be so implausible to create a solid-state keyboard? Imagine a keyboard that felt good enough, but the keys actually don't move at all... it would be nearly indestructible. That, and no fan... no moving parts AT ALL. Maybe that's the real goal. Two things that move; the screen hinge, and the power button.
If it is a "real" thing, would it be so implausible to create a solid-state keyboard? Imagine a keyboard that felt good enough, but the keys actually don't move at all... it would be nearly indestructible. That, and no fan... no moving parts AT ALL. Maybe that's the real goal. Two things that move; the screen hinge, and the power button.
Post-Jobs Apple: we solve problems that don't even exist!*
*While ignoring ones that do.
*While ignoring ones that do.
Nice to see some forward thinking on this forum! Sure, it may not all come to pass, but at least you're not stuck in the paradigm ruts of the past.
I always tell people "I never heard anyone complain about the first iPhone being too thick" but each year or two, they make it thinner (to the point where people can bend them by just putting them in their pockets and sitting down)
But, they were able to make a trackpad that does not really click, feel like it still does. I would be interested to see what they can do with the keyboard!
Thanks for the laugh, man. I just got coffee on my already-thin-enough-thank-you-very-much-Apple-now-go-fix-something-that-actually-needs-to-be-fixed keyboard because of you.
Are you trying to give me a Vietnam-style horror flashback?! The lag on those damn things were horrendous. I remember punching the keys, screaming with frustration as they wouldn't accept the characters.
Hmm, maybe Apple are going to do a similar thing.
"To ... create ... this product, we asked ourselves: what do consumers most want from a notebook? The answer, of course, is not more power, or better battery life, but a biblically unreliable keyboard. The user will ... sympathetically press each key, enjoying not only the feel, but the experience, of typing. It's unapologetically laggy.
We, at Apple, feel that life sometimes moves too ... quickly. By ... distilling the user experience, refining the joy of pressing a key, users can once again learn to type. To ... condense the encounter between the finger and the key, our engineers had to start from the beginning -- quite literally.
Put simply, it's the best keyboard we've ever made."
OMG Noooooo it will be like typing on an ipad and that sucks for anything usefull
I remember people like you saying the same thing when the PowerBook Duo came out 25 years ago.As if the current Macs are soooooo thick.
Hey great. Thinner Laptops with less robust graphics (R.I.P. discrete cards?) and fewer ports. Yea!
I remember people like you saying the same thing when the PowerBook Duo came out 25 years ago.
"To ... create ... this doorstop, we asked ourselves: what do consumers most want from a notebook? The answer, of course, is not a G5 processor, or a DVD drive, but weight. This beast will unapologetically burden even the toughest backpack.
Put simply, it's the heaviest PowerBook we've ever made."
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