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Rayz2016 said:

I think Apple would rather expand the touchpad/magic pad idea; make it into a screen that can act as as touchpad/keyboard/drawing tablet.

This is what I've been saying.  What if that rumor floating around about a new 10.5" iPad Pro (with OLED display) is actually a Magic Touch Board?  Combine the trackpad and keyboard into a full touch surface for desktop Macs where basically the current Magic Touch Bar takes over the entire keyboard.  Current keyboard commands that power users know but lots of people don't could now be dynamic software buttons (surfacing hidden features, empowering the masses, kind of what Apple is all about).  Make the keyboard faux clicky with some fancy pre-touch sensing so that when you strike a software key you get taptic feedback ala the current trackpad.  This kind of thing would also open the door for Apple Pencil support on Macs and all sorts of rad multi-touch interfaces for Pro apps and such.  And introducing it as a desktop Mac accessory would allow for people to still have their favorite real keyboard hooked up as I'm sure there will be much gnashing of teeth about a full on software keyboard and the elimination of keyboard shortcuts.

Rayz2016 said:

entropys said:

Rayz2016 said:

Soli said:

lmac said:

Apple doesn't care about its 20 billion dollar Mac business

:facepalm:

I think people tend read and then just massage the logic to fit what they want to hear. 

If Apple did build this blazing hot, multi-slotted, bristling-with-ports machine that everyone is apparently demanding, then I guarantee that all these so-called "professionals" would spend the next year complaining how ugly it is. 

Or, they could just whack all that in a classic design Mac Pro tower and release it with a mea culpa. 

They could do that, and people would still complain how Hey we're being fobbed off with an old-fashioned boxy design. 

I think they could satisfy their pro users and their own tendency to solder everything down by making a little rack-mountable quartur-U width, 1U height Xeon based "blade" kind of machine that can be run by itself, or linked up with others via Thunderbolt 3 for parallel processing.  Imagine eight different 12 core little boxes all linked together- and hooked up to a PCI expansion chases for fancy graphics cards and such.  That'd be a good time.