Sketchy Rumor Claims MacBooks, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad to Gain Touch ID

[manu chao]

Then it's sitting slightly further away from the USB port of the machine it's sitting under.

With that argument, wireless keyboards make as little sense as wireless trackpads.

 

[nsayer]

With that argument, wireless keyboards make as little sense as wireless trackpads.

Particularly when they're missing a quarter of the keys. And that sets a precedent... You can have a full featured wired one, or a more compact, but less capable wireless one (if you insist). Adding touch ID to either a wired magic trackpad or perhaps instead to the wired keyboard would fit right in, and would eliminate the objections of power and security that doing the same in a wireless device entails.

 

[noxtos]

Carjackers swipe biometric Mercedes, plus owner's finger

 

[DeanL]

I wish my car had touch ID

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Me too, but battery life would go do the drain

Not really. GPS wouldn't be enabled at all time, and the impact of LTE on a MacBook would be negligible.

 

[kristoffer4]

I wonder if this will still happen this year? I hope the next MBP Retina comes in space grey and supports touch id.

 

[Richdmoore]

I almost wonder if they will replace the magic trackpad with a force touch version once it becomes more standard in the macbook line. I can see multiple click "levels" becoming important in a few years.