Shulou(Shulou.com)05/31 Report--

Apple's smart keyboard may one day become more magical and thicker, as the company is working on how to include the entire Mac in the keyboard.

Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) attached great importance to how a small Mac mini became a BYODKM or a device with its own monitor, keyboard and mouse. Now it seems that Apple is considering further cutting this point until you only need to bring your own monitor.

The computer in the input device is a newly disclosed patent application that presents an entire Mac the size of a keyboard. It will also be a keyboard.

Reminiscent of countless computers of the 1980s, such as the Apple II, Vic 20 and Sinclair QL, computers built according to this patent application look like a keyboard. It will be larger or higher than the current Apple magic keyboard, but it may not be that many.

"the strong demand for high-performance portable computing devices at the same time," the patent application said, "has contributed to the miniaturization and size reduction of large computing components that were once used to power and drive devices."

"processors, batteries, memory, integrated circuits and other components," it continued, "are now being manufactured on a smaller footprint to provide lightweight and thin portable computing devices."

Apple believes that it is therefore possible and desirable to "further customize the shell design, shape and configuration to provide additional or enhanced device features".

This is indeed the gist of the entire patent application, because most of its more than 130000 words detail how to ventilate the keyboard to keep the components cool.

However, there are several references to making this device more portable. For example, Apple means "a computing device can be folded around an axis."

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