Steve Jobs criticized during the launch of the original iPhone smartphones offered not a keyboard, customized according to the context in which are in use. It’s been a few years since then and the iPhone already offers some context when we use the keyboard (e.g. displays us a keypad if the field that we’re going to cover only accepts numbers). Now it seems that in Apple want to recall the words of its founder and lead this idea also to the Mac.
At least, this is what they say the rumors that have emerged in the last few days on company laptops. According to these, the next MacBook Pro Retina could incorporate a touchscreen OLED in the position they currently occupy the function buttons (F1, F2, F3, etc, etc…). This screen will give us access to different functions and adapt it to the needs of each moment. For example, we could customize the buttons that show in every application that we use, show user interface in some functions, etc, etc…
A laptop halfway between 12 “MacBook and MacBook Pro 15
The approach has a great pint and could be an important aid to make more products we are working with our MacBook. But… would be how that touch screen? How could it be real integration? A user of 9to5Mac, Cameron, wants to show us his vision and makes it through the concept of MacBook Pro that we show in the images that illustrate this article.
Cameron imagines a computer halfway between the current 15 inch MacBook Pro and MacBook 12. A computer with the new Apple keyboard, speakers on both sides of the keyboard, a revamped hinge, larger trackpad and the mentioned touch screen OLED with customizable buttons.
As we can see in the pictures, the screen would occupy the entire width of the keyboard, exactly the same position that currently occupy the function keys. In the images we can see how, by default, it would show the function keys in addition to exhaust and the power button. Although as mentioned these keys would be dynamic and they would be adapted according to the needs of the moment; for example in the last image, we can see how the display changes to show the interface of Siri.
We don’t know if really the next MacBook Pro range will integrate this feature. It would certainly be something interesting, but it will have to wait until its presentation to find out if we will really see this novelty in the range of business notebooks from Apple.
What do you think? See interesting integration of this feature on company computers?
