Recently, a new Apple patent has revealed a completely new concept for how users will use Macs in the future.
Specifically, this concept turns the Magic Keyboard into a portable Mac with pre-installed macOS operating system, from which it can be used with any screen. And with Magic Keyboard’s portability, users can even take this “Mac” anywhere. In the case of Magic Keyboard with integrated touchpad, users do not even need to carry a separate mouse and keyboard.
This concept is quite similar to the way Apple designed the Mac mini, but the limitation of the Mac mini is that it does not have a built-in keyboard/mouse nor is it highly portable. However, it must be said again and again, with a compact and ultra-thin design like the Magic Keyboard, it will be difficult for Apple to equip a powerful hardware inside such a design. Apple will also need to address the heat issue with this product.
If you remember, in the past, Raspberry also introduced a Pi 400 computer with the design of a keyboard, equipped with many connection ports and can work with any screen. The Pi 400 has a not-so-strong configuration with a 1.8GHz quad-core chip, 4GB of RAM, integrated graphics GPU, support for both Wifi and Ethernet.
Raspberry Pi 400 with a computer design in a keyboard
The macOS patent integrated inside the Magic Keyboard was filed by Apple in 2020. However, like many other manufacturers on the market, Apple has always filed a lot of patents, but not all inventions will be. be realized in the future.