This is an interesting rumour. New Tech Spy say that Apple will leap ahead with a new technology embedding an LCD into the touchpad, so that, as illustrated above, you can use it for navigation etc.
The new touch finger LCD’s will appear first on Apple’s Macbook Pro along both sides of the scrolling touchpad, as an addition to the manual numeric function keys, but will eventually replace them all together. User input will be the driving force to what happens next, as a generation of people will have to slowly adjust to the new system. History shows that change does not come easy, with less than 1% of the notebook market in 2005 being captured by tablet PC’s. It seems notebook users are very careful when adapting to new technology.
I think it seems to far ahead. It reminds me of the optimus keyboard, which is still nowhere to be found. Maybe they want to start of a new idea, but this doesn’t seem like a feasable idea, or something that Apple would do.
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