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Concept Imagines What a Dynamic OLED Touch Panel Could Look Like on a MacBook Pro
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I use the function keys a 1000 times a day. But then again I always use an external keyboard, even with my MacBook. I must have PgDn, PgUp, Home, End, Del. Every serious developer needs these.
You could use the touchscreen when you fold back the keyboard in tablet mode, oh wait that's another thing that hasn't been implemented.
But I love laptops with touchscreens. Very often I find it hard to contort my elbow and use the trackpad, such as times when the laptop is on my lap, or on a table close to me. Honestly I have little use for trackpads, they just seem very cramped and inaccurate. With a touchscreen I can simply touch what I want to activate without that layer of abstraction.
But back to your point, for me I don't see what the point of a touch panel would be, definitely a gimmick if I've ever seen one.
I really don't want OLED on a laptop at all. OLED is to susceptible to burn-in, and computers tend to have very static images on them for a long time. I like being able to leave my computer on and not worry that the screen is going to burn in. To me that is a better feature than any OLED feature currently. Good IPS panels are good enough and a better choice for computing in my opinion.
Yeah, I think the renderings look beautiful, but I'm struggling to see the point of it.
That's a good point, but they could have a on-screen alternative version...maybe the whole thing is just the next iteration of the Dock, which defaults to it's current behavior and apps can utilize it should the user allow them.
...which is precisely why they'll talk about the OS X enhancements during WWDC.
Resounding, usually implies that more than one person is saying something.
[doublepost=1465582589][/doublepost]It is a very well done mockup, and I am actually not opposed to the idea, a little gimmicky, but also wouldn't mind it. Does anyone know why they are starting to drop Magsafe?
You'll notice I didn't specify what closing the laptop does.
I suggest making it so the laptop goes to sleep when it's closed.
You can still power it down normally via the Apple menu. In the event that it locks up or something, I made the recommendation that there be some keyboard combination you could hold which would be caught early on (before the crashed OS has a chance to have any impact) and force the whole machine to power down.
Just like on iOS how holding home + lock button forces a hard shut off.
as always? what new hater narrative is this of which you speak? apple's whole thing theyre known for is taking crummy current tech and releasing it in a very not-half-baked fashion -- the PC, the MP3 player, the cell phone, the tablet, the ultralight notebook, etc..
I'd love to see that screen be integrated into Pages, so that you could have a browser window open and type notes with the OLED screen without having to have both windows open or attach a second display. It'd be super handy for transcribing scanned documents etc.
Really? What purpose would a touch screen have? Other than to add fingerprints to a large glass panel. Perhaps you have extraordinarily long fingers - say 8" long, which allows you to move your fingers from the keyboard to the top of the screen without having to lift your arm and hand.
Because if you don't, what you're doing in having to move your hand or both hands to the screen from the flat horizontal plane of the keyboard to the vertical screen is just slowing down your ability to work.
Apple made the trackpad multi-touch for a reason, because it's far more efficient to use it to control things on the screen. I would argue that the next step is actually making the keyboard and trackpad just another screen that is multi-touch, so you can more naturally interact with the screen, without having to touch the screen.
I own a Surface Pro and I find the multi-touch screen brilliant and I love using it. If Apple were to make the screen detach from the keyboard of the MacBook then there would be a comfortable work experience as the screen could lie flat down on a table or lap and turn into a tablet then when it is attached back to the keyboard it can be used as a regular MacBook. Maybe you don't like the idea but I know of other people who would like to see the MacBook Pro like the Surface Pro.
Agreed. If one can't touch type the Esc key, it's a fail for use by developers (especially Vim users), and some Apple engineers will need to spend a lot of time in the penalty box.
Hey Siri, Turn Macbook Pro On
And what if that doesn't work? Physical keys make more sense. Just make it so the icon on the keys can change.
I meant if it's like an iPad, meaning you can't feel the keys.
Apple would never do that though, it'd be awful. You need to feel the keys to know where you are when typing.
Otherwise you'd always have to look at the keyboard when typing, and you'd still make tons of mistakes.
Let's just wait for Tim Cook to make a oled smart bar for the new version of apples iPad Smart Keyboard and still not give me a trackpad in the near future...a complete mess