Comments on: Apple Notebook Wide Touchpads Confirmed

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:13:16 +0000

I’m a little sad you all sat around and argued over the keyboard’s layout instead of truly talking about this idea. Doesn’t anyone else here realize the potential of this patent?

Apple has recently released many patents pertaining to new touch pads, ones with with multi-touch pressure-sensitive screens!

Such pressure sensitive screens combined with the ability to detect where the user’s palms are placed means Apple might have huge plans for their laptops.

It is in my strong belief that we will soon be seeing MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s with full surface touch pads that act both as a multi-touch interface as well as the keyboard. They might even be another screen too. Think of it as a super smart Nintendo DS that you can type on. Only Apple made it so it’s perfect.

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By: hayley

hayley — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:07:10 +0000

can you not left click on an apple laptop? its really annoying.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:15:07 +0000

I’v just got a mac laptop and its annoying me that it has no delete key so how do you delete?

By: Apple News » Apple Notebook Wide Touchpads Confirmed

Apple News » Apple Notebook Wide Touchpads Confirmed — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:45:27 +0000

[...] The US patent office today unveiled Apple â??s wide touchpad license. This should mean Wide Touchpads for Apple Notebooks hopefully in the near future.read more | digg story [...]

By: Amrit Gherra

Amrit Gherra — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:24:56 +0000

my ibook does not have a delete key…….therefore i cannot press fn + DELETE…….

so how the hell do i delete things as i would have on a normal laptop/pc……

many thanks……sooooo eagerly awaiting answers…..

there must be a keyboard shortcut that = DELETE

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:09:00 +0000

the comment about using the fingerworks technology is completely right. the inventor was my professor in college at UD and he sold the technology to apple and moved to california to work for them. i have no doubt that this is their technology finally being put to use and integrated into apple products.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:15:00 +0000

I say remove the caps lock key, it takes up nice real estate and it always gets in the way. make fn + shift or some crap like that. damm relix of typewriters

that’s what I woulda said too, except i discovered that at least one of my friends uses the caps lock keep instead of holding shift for several characters in a row.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:45:00 +0000

“What’s the point of such a wide touchpad?”

What’s the point? Jesus man, what’s taken so long is more like it? Ever notice how often you are using the touch pad at the edge? There may also be a multi point function ie. using 2 or more fingers to do things… Check out this video for a sweet demonstration of this technology.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:24:00 +0000

i like that idea of having a sort of invisible touch pad. i could definatly see mac doing that. Sadly i dont have a mac and must wait until i can afford one. i long for that day

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:33:00 +0000

Damn right! Steve Jobs hates anything that distracts from a visually appealing design and I’ll bet that if this is imlemented there’d be no visible trackpad – making the Powerb- I mean, MacBook Pro or iBooks even more attractive.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:12:00 +0000

I have a Dell Windoze machine for work and the delete button does nothing but sit there. The trackpack is placed for right handed folks which is great for that population. A large trackpad would be great.

By: rdas7

rdas7 — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:03:00 +0000

My bet is that if they do this “wide” touchpad, then they’ll get rid of the rectangle. Imagine a MacBook/iBook with no visible trackpad. You just touch anywhere on the palm rest with a finger to move the mouse. It figures out when you’re resting your palm, and when you’re trying to manipulate the cursor.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:56:00 +0000

I say remove the caps lock key, it takes up nice real estate and it always gets in the way. make fn + shift or some crap like that. damm relix of typewriters

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:38:00 +0000

Does a complete lack of imagination count as an opinion these days? The wide touchpad provides huge possibilities, particularly if it’s combined with an lcd display underneath. dials and sliders, psuedo-analogue input controls for any number of programs would be incredibly useful.
Tweaking dials on an 808, mixing colours on a pallete with your fingers in photoshop, sliding three seperate volume controls at once in a mixing program, etc etc

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:29:00 +0000

Huh? I think the point is that the whole area of the palm rest could be a touch-pad.

For example, you don’t have to go to a specific spot to move the pointer, you can just gesture over where ever your hand happens to be. It’s not that you’ll have to move your finger from one side of the laptop to another to have the pointer cross the screen, it just adds convience.

As to the last poster (”Good to see they’re dicking around with this while they still don’t have a real Delete key on the entire machine.”), I just don’t understand the comment… I’m posting from a G4 PowerBook, and clearly see a key labeled “Delete” in the upper right-hand corner of my keyboard. I use it to “delete” things I mistype. Maybe you should have used it on your post. ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:15:00 +0000

they would leave the sides to be “hot corners” that could launch programs or scripts. it would also pave the way for LCD ‘buttons’ that could change based on the program running (like the Optima keyboard)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:09:00 +0000

Good to see they’re dicking around with this while they still don’t have a real Delete key on the entire machine.
Innovating an entire new touchpad concept, versus adding another key to a keyboard that works just fine.

…and hitting fn+delete really isn’t that bad

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:02:00 +0000

It would be nice if it allows handwriting recognition with your finger, or even work as a pressure-sensitive tablet!