Apple’s Foldable Mac Could Actually Be A 20-Inch Touchscreen Device

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Apple is reportedly experimenting with a foldable Mac/iPad hybrid device that will offer a touchscreen interface and might hit the shelves in about four years from now. Now, the idea of a touch-screen Mac is divisive. On one hand, there are devices like Microsoft’s Surface that effortlessly go from laptop to tablet mode, with a touch-sensitive panel proving to be a key functional aspect in the transformation. Apple, on the other hand, isn’t a fan of the idea.

“It doesn’t work, it’s ergonomically terrible,” Steve Jobs said back in 2010, adding that touch screens on a vertical panel are an open invitation to arm fatigue. The TouchBar on MacBooks, the closest that Apple ever got to the idea of a touch interface on its laptops, was also finally gotten rid of in 2020. However, rumors about the possibility of a Mac machine with touch screen technology have recently started to pick up the pace.

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Display Supply Chain Consultants' (DSCC) Ross Young recently claimed that Apple was working on an all-screen foldable Mac. The device can reportedly serve as a notebook with a virtual keyboard on one half of the screen or unfold into a massive 20-inch computing screen that can be paired with an external keyboard. Now, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman notes in his PowerOn newsletter that Apple has “been exploring a dual-screen, foldable, MacBook/iPad hybrid.” The idea is not alien, as Lenovo already executed it back in 2020 with the ThinkPad X1 Fold. Apple has reportedly been toying with the concept for the past couple of years, but it is unclear at what development stage it currently sits. “It would trade in the physical keyboard and trackpad for a fully touch-screen base,”