Artikel: die Zukunft könnte wirklich modularen MacbookPros gehören

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Interessanter Artikel, es wäre cool, wenn das so eintreten sollte, wenn ich auch aktuell eher skeptisch bin:

For a newly-granted patent shows that Apple is looking to go so much further than just allowing a few expansion cards into a Mac Pro. Instead, it wants to let you pick the modules you want to build up the Mac you need.
Those modules are not any internal expansion, they are the keyboard, the trackpad, the display, the hinges between all of these — and even a stand to put that display on, if you want to.
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This all about the mechanics of a self-assembly MacBook Pro, and the patent specifies that it can have "a display removably attached to the hinge," and a "keyboard removably attached," and a power supply, "a projector to project a desired image onto the input surface," and so on.
It doesn't look as if Apple expects these elements to be snapped together and then left as one unit, either. "The base can include one or more magnets to align the keyboard or the second display on the input surface," says the patent.

Quelle: Future MacBook Pro could split at the hinge and be truly modular