A new Apple patent shows technology that could potentially be used in the new MacBook as its
trackpad. Apparently, this new customizable
trackpad would be illuminated and provide the user access to many commands.
Underneath the keyboard is an off-center
trackpad. In a conversation with Frank Azor, Co-Founder and Vice President of Alienware, we learnt that the company has aligned the
trackpad to be center-aligned with respect to the G & H keys, instead of being center aligned to the keyboard in general.
The Force Touch
trackpad is 20% larger, and it supports multitouch gestures like pinch and zoom.
It just has to figure out finger-first experience for a generation raised on doing work with a mouse and
trackpad.
The most affordable Retina-display Mac ever also includes an Apple-designed keyboard, a spacious Force Touch
trackpad, faster SSDs, wide stereo sound, the Apple T2 Security Chip and Thunderbolt 3, making the new MacBook Air the perfect notebook to take with you everywhere you go.
Below the display sits an RGB-backlit mechanical keyboard, with a
trackpad on the side, which can switch to a numpad if the situation demands.
ASUS' new laptop has done away with the traditional
trackpad and replaced it with a multi-functional touchscreen display.
The information and entertainment dashboard is fired by a
trackpad interface.
At its Lenovo Transform event in New York, Lenovo revealed one of its possible future experiments, a laptop that can be folded, rolled, and bended, and doesn't have a
trackpad. Lenovo calls it the "Future of Personalized Computing".
The controls consist of a
trackpad on the left and a simple button to shoot on the right side of the screen.
Its fantastically light 920g design and smaller footprint made it more svelte than the Macbook Air, while also boasting a much sharper display with more pixels, plus a backlit keyboard with a pressure-sensitive Force Touch
trackpad.
The all-new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2 and Magic
Trackpad 2 are more comfortable, capable and environmentally friendly.