Rumors about touchscreen Macs have been around for a long time, but Apple seems to be resisting it. In September of last year we were presented with the new iPhone 5 with a revolutionary screen that integrates the touch sensor within the screen itself. This new technology, called "In-Cell", is what makes the iPhone 5 so thin. Today the patent for that In-Cell technology has been published and the surprise to see it was that it was originally intended to be used in a Macbook.
Apple's patent data makes it very clear: This technology is suitable for devices such as a laptop or mobile device, and as you can see in the image that heads the article, taken from Apple's patent, the chosen device is a Macbook. It may seem like something unrealizable in the short term right now, but when Retina displays appeared on mobile devices, many said that this could not be extrapolated to a computer in the short term, and yet We already have several Mac models with Retinas screens and resolutions unthinkable a few years ago.
Touchscreen computers are already available on the market, I know several people with touchscreen all-in-one computers, and the truth is that none of them use this feature. That's why I can't quite see an iMac with a touch screen, although some time ago someone who worked within Apple assured me that they would arrive soon. However a Macbook with a touch screen may be different. A tablet-macbook hybrid could encompass the best of both devices in oneAlthough the experiments that have been carried out so far, such as Microsoft's Surface Pro have failed to revolutionize the market, Apple is used to taking concepts that already exist and improving them by creating new devices. It is time for Apple to surprise again, don't you think?
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Source - Patently Apple