The Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has a lot in mind when it comes to the design of MacBook. Earlier, a patent revealed that the company is considering developing a retractable keyboard. Recently, a patent filed at the China National Intellectual Property Office disclosed that the Cupertino company is eyeing on a future MacBook pro with six screens.
The latest information came from MyFixGuide, which first spotted Apple patent at the CNIPO. The patent is titled "Dynamic Display Interface." It talks about a laptop that fills the empty areas of the keyboard section with small screens, which could be one of Apple's future MacBook Pro models.
The patent comes with illustrations on how the Cupertino company wants the screens to serve specific purposes based on the kind of program running on the MacBook Pro. One of the illustrations shows the image editor with screens used for zooming, changing levels, accessing various tools, and as a slider. There is also an illustration showing a word processor that utilizes the extra screens for system buttons and document summaries.
Noticeably, the images in the patent appear to lack a trackpad. It could mean that the space between the bottom displays is utilized for this particular purpose. Earlier, Apple filed a patent showing a MacBook with a touch surface. Interestingly, this touch surfaced could be resized, moved, and comes with haptic feedback.
This is mentioned in the new Apple patent indicating the boundaries of the trackpad in a future MacBook Pro design. Aside from these, the Apple patent also mentions about backlight keys. While this is nothing new, it suggests that the surface around the keys could be lighted, highlighting a particular set of keys, potentially aiding more efficient typing.
The industry has seen several concepts about laptop displays from other tech companies in the past. Microsoft has the Surface Neo that comes with a virtual keyboard on its second display. Asus Zenbook Duo features a secondary display just above its keyboard.
It is likely that tech companies coming up with this radical design toy with the possibility that consumers might soon abandon physical keyboards in the future. It is worth mentioning that these details, while from an official Apple document, do not mean that it would be commercially available in the future. There is a chance that the Cupertino company filed this patent so other companies would not be able to release a laptop with a similar design but do not intend to produce it commercially.
