Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th.

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th.
Date	2016-10-19 19:28 +1300
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In article <58070fb0$0$24513$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-10-19 01:28, Your Name wrote:
> > 
> > Supposedly the MacBook Pro will have a touch function strip across the
> > top of the keyboard and the MacBook Air will have an "e-ink keyboard"
> 
> e-ink keyboard likely means that the letters on keycaps are software
> configurable. So single model for worldwide distributiuon. Whether that
> means flat touch screen keyboard or actual keys whose surface can be
> software configured to display any symbol, I don't know. (the later
> would be a neat innovation BTW).

Putting a small e-ink screens on each individual key would almost
certainly make the new MacBook Air would end up thicker than the
MacBook and new MacBook Pro ... Ive would have a complete mental
breakdown. (There have already been other keyboards with little LCDs on
each individual key which can be software changed to display different
things, but such keyboards have been fairly expensive.)

The only way that rumour makes any remote sense is if it's a flat
touchscreen "keyboard" with the "keys" drawn on an e-ink display (and
possibly some sort of haptic feedback to give it a faked "real key"
sensation) ... but touchscreen keyboards are disgusting to use for more
than a short time (as are other flat keyboards, like the membrane ones
on the first Sinclair / Timex computers).

Whichever turns out to be tur, if any of it, it's going to be more
power hungry (even with e-ink's lower power requirements than other
flatscreens), so need a bigger battery which again means a thicker
MacBook Air.

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Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-18 21:36 -0700
  Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-10-19 18:28 +1300
    Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-10-19 02:16 -0400
      Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-10-19 19:28 +1300
        Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 08:22 -0700
      Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. android <here@there.was> - 2016-10-19 08:29 +0200
        Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-19 13:55 +0000
          Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. android <here@there.was> - 2016-10-19 16:43 +0200
            Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-10-19 12:12 -0400
              Re: New Macs coming Octiber 27th. Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2016-10-19 11:34 -0700
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