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Future MacBook Pro could steal this killer iPad Pro feature

Future MacBook Pro could steal this killer iPad Pro feature

MacBook with Apple Pencil mockup
(Image credit: Sarang Sheth / Yanko Design)

A newly filed patent has teased the possibility that a futurity Apple tree MacBook could come with built-in Apple Pencil support for doodling on a touchscreen — and now a set of concept images has shown merely what that could wait like.

The patent, uncovered this week by Patently Apple, shows a MacBook with a dock tray for an Apple Pencil-like device, blurring the line between the company's laptop and iPad Pro line. The Apple tree Pencil would sit to a higher place the number keys where the Touch Bar currently resides, and would actually replace the F key functionality when not in use.

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"Uniquely, a loftier-terminate lighting system is built-into the servant and the Apple Pencil wherein the Pencil can replace the summit F-Key row with the functional cardinal symbols illuminated on Apple Pencil with full functionality," the site explains. This is what that looks like in practice:

MacBook with Apple Pencil patent

(Prototype credit: Plain Apple tree)

Diagrams can just have you and then far, though, and that's where designer Sarang Sheth steps in with these mockups for Yanko Design.

MacBook with Apple Pencil mockup

(Image credit: Sarang Sheth / Yanko Design)

Interestingly, Sheth'south take still leaves a trivial space for the reportedly soonhoped-for-axed Impact Bar. Here, it simply provides admission to Siri and other apps.

MacBook with Apple Pencil mockup

(Image credit: Sarang Sheth / Yanko Design)

Of form, a patent application is no guarantee that the ideas contained within volition ever actually announced in a commercially available production. Apple tree is notoriously prolific with its patent applications, and filed over 5,000 of them in 2020 alone. Some will eventually exist role of a product buyable from your local Apple store, just many others won't.

It'south impossible to say whether this will be i of the ideas that makes it to production or not, simply it's worth remembering what Steve Jobs said nearly the idea of touchscreen laptops back in the twenty-four hour period:

"Nosotros've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out information technology doesn't work," Jobs said during a 2010 effect. "Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical. Information technology gives corking demo, but after a brusk period of time, you commencement to fatigue. Subsequently an extended flow of time, your arm wants to autumn off. It doesn't piece of work. Information technology's ergonomically terrible. Touch surface want to be horizontal, hence pads."

Apple is, of class, under new management now. Tim Melt has shown in the past that he's quite happy to go against Steve Jobs orthodoxy (Jobs was notoriously against the idea of styluses, for a outset), and it's entirely possible he will again.

But for what it's worth, I agree with Jobs on this one. I ain a second-generation Surface Laptop, a device that has a touchscreen and Surface Pen support. I can count on i paw the number of times I've used the touchscreen, and it's mostly been to demonstrate its presence. While I never bought the Surface Pen, I did attempt somebody else's and information technology's just impractical: the screen wobbles when pressed, and you have to lean over the keyboard to draw.

Apple might have a way to circumvent these issues in the works, or the patent might but be a way of staking merits to the thought in instance somebody else tries it. Either way, it makes for interesting concept art.

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Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the spider web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, yous'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more than likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.

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