>Apple's plans for advanced laptop controls may extend beyond that rumored OLED touch strip. Both 9to5Mac and TrustedReviews report that Apple has been in talks to use a laptop version of Sonder Design's dynamic keyboard technology, which uses E Ink to change key labels on the fly. Just how Tim Cook and company would implement the hardware isn't clear, but it might work the way these keyboards have operated since the days of Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus. If so, you'd get handy labels on keys as you switch contexts, such as brushes in an image editor or different characters when you switch languages.
>Although Sonder has confirmed that talks have taken place, it's not saying whether or not it has a deal. It only adds that it's "closing B2B procurement contracts" with three laptop makers, and that Foxconn (which helped get Sonder off the ground) and E Ink are helping.
Their newest macbook pro keyboards must be for prepping the users for touchscreen keyboards
Its the only thing that explains the shittiness
Asher Nguyen
This keyboard just BTFO'd all the gimmick mechanical keyboards completely how would Sup Forums EVER Recover?
David Campbell
>Apple reportedly wants to use changeable E Ink keyboards That, I would like! I'm not a fan on Touchbar but a keyboard that I can edit to display anything and nothing appeals to me.
I would immediately set it to Colemak and reprogram a bunch of keys.
Apple, make it happen!
Austin Gomez
>Microsoft puts a touchscreen into the screen >apple goes the opposite way and puts a screen into the keyboard
What the fuck are they doing?
Thomas Powell
It'd certainly help with different language keyboards. As well as switching to dvorak.
It makes a LOT more sense than putting LED screens into keys, that shit was dumb.
Juan Brown
touchscreen into the screen: > no taptic feedback
screen in the keyboard: > taptic feedback
Alexander Green
can we get one with a non shitty design? like a model m or thinkpad keyboard but e ink?
Julian Morgan
That's actually pretty neat
Juan Cruz
Hey that actually sounds useful. I hope this becomes ubiquitous someday. I don't necessarily want it to replace the keyboards of today, but instead be a nice addition.
Eli Perry
great, now MBPs will be even more expensive without getting any more features that any one wants to use
Kevin Anderson
Too bad e-ink doesn't do colours so it's quite useless.
Robert Martinez
>only have to manufacture one type of keyboard for every language your OS supports
I think this is a little more than just a gimmick.
Logan Hill
Sounds neat but isn't it going to be a gigantic mess to put a display on each key and have it all connected?
Colton Rogers
Except you can't. (At least) American, European and Japanese MacBooks all have different layouts.
Caleb Howard
But E-ink is capable of color at least since 2011.
Jason Stewart
>What the fuck are they doing?
Thinking different
Thomas Lee
doing it better
Jonathan Parker
Universal layout that macfags will simply have to get used to
Parker Barnes
What's the point? If you even need marked keys, you already fail at computers.
Asher Walker
What the fuck. How slow would your workflow be staring at your keyboard like that.
Christian Thompson
Apple decided to abandon their pro customers years ago, final cut X and the new Mac pro are a clear statement, so it is the new Macbook without f keys and SD card slot
Aiden Jones
OLED keyboards have been out since 2006
e-ink is a good idea but on a laptop ?
Henry Torres
but they kept the 3.5mm audio-jack
Blake Wood
>Bothering to type ??? If you even need a keyboard you fail at computers.
Camden Lewis
Not enough courage
Ryan Perry
Millenial retard spotted.
David Gomez
Even better on laptop, it barely even sips power
My kindle gets 1-3 week long battery life on a single charge.
