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Fancy a laptop that’s also an iPad? Apple’s apparently working on it
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(Image credit: Apple)
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For all the discussion of afolding iPhone, the idea of a foldingfolding iPadis much more interesting to me. One of my favouriteApplepatents from a very long time ago described a single folding touch screen that could be a hugeiPador a pretty respectable laptop: you’d fold it into a laptop shape and type on the glass when you were at your desk, and use it like any other iPad when you were on the sofa, in a meeting or on the train. And it looks like Apple might actually make it.
According toDisplay Supply Chain Consultants analyst Ross Young(viaMacRumors) who’s become quite the predictor in recent months, Apple is “exploring all-screen foldable MacBooks”, and says that Apple is in discussion with key suppliers about folding notebooks with 20-inch displays.
This isn’t particularly outlandish:Asushas already made a pretty impressive folding laptop/tablet hybrid, theZenbook 17 Fold. But would you want something even bigger and no doubt even more expensive?
Is this a MacBook or a monitor?
Apple’s plans are interesting, because according to Young the model would use an on-screen keyboard in laptop mode and an external one when unfolded. That makes it sound like a laptop in both modes, with a small screen when you’re on a plane and a big one at your desk. That’s no doubt because the predicted 20-inch screen would make it awfully unwieldy as a tablet (though we do love the 14-inchSamsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra), not to mention heavy: Asus’s folding device has a 17-inch display and weighs slightly more than the current14-inch MacBook Proand a good bit more than theiPad Pro 12.9-inch.
But maybe I’m thinking about this wrong. Maybe the goal here isn’t to replace the MacBook Pro or the iPad but to come up with some whole new category, something that isn’t a big phone or a folding tablet or a laptop at all.
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