Touch typing on Macbook

[navaira]

Can't believe this hasn't been posted on the front page yet... It's all over Interwebz, I picked this link as one of many:

http://gizmodo.com/typing-on-a-macbook-could-soon-be-as-awful-as-typing-on-1769836829

Have you tried to write an email, or worse, an essay on an iPad touchscreen? Well, soon that may be exactly how you type on a Macbook laptop.

An Apple patent reveals a new type of laptop where the keyboard is replaced by one giant touchpad. The company describes a “force-sensitive input structure for an electronic device.” The surface would be customizable and could be programmed to include a trackpad and keyboard.

If it has been posted elsewhere, my apologies, I didn't see it anywhere.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Gizmodo doesn't get it. If there was haptic feedback, the experience would be totally different. It may actually be good to write on.

Of course, it could also be awful, but who knows but Apple.

 

[keysofanxiety]

I find that touch typing on the current MacBook is tough enough anyway as you can't blindly feel where the keys are.

If there was a way that they could emulate that with haptic feedback, I'd be really impressed.

 

[noobinator]

Not interested until the MB can read my thoughts and type them out on screen.

 

[navaira]

That's the 2017 update. It will also be thinner.

 

[mildocjr]

I'd be fine with it as long as they raised the edges around each key, used haptic feedback, and kept the bumps on the F and J keys.

 

[applesith]

Apple files lots of patents...