Apple has registered a new patent for laptops without keyboards. Instead of the keyboard is a large touchpad that can be adapted software.
Apple’s latest and thinnest laptop MacBook, equipped with a keyboard with unusually low key. This meant that Apple could keep down thickness, and now it seems they like to push the limits further, with a new patent that removes keys altogether.
In a new patent that Apple registered Presents the concepts for their MacBooks they call for zero travel . The patent describes a laptop where the keyboard is replaced with a large touch-sensitive touchpad that gives you haptic feedback when pressing, instead of a physical button is pressed.
According to the patent should touch area also adapt after the software and be able to show different types of tangent sets depending on the program. It can for example be that the touchpad becomes greater in an image editing program or the numeric keypad only appears when a spreadsheet is open.
However, this is only a patent and therefore no guarantee that the actually becomes reality. Many patents are never in actual products, and if that happens it often takes several years.
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