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In fact, it’s safe to say that the evolution of Apple Silicon makes Cupertino more capable of creating such a small, sleek, elegant all-in-one computer than it ever could have been using Intel’s processors. Drawing depicting a potential future Mac housed entirely within the keyboard enclosure. Apple is certainly to capitalize on it somehow.

However, Apple Silicon offers new frontiers for mobile computing. It’s not at all unusual for the company to patent some technology and then never do anything with it. Will Your Next Mac Be Your Keyboard?Īpple files for patents on a continuous basis, sometimes several each week. Picture, if you will, a trackpad, touchpad, mouse, or tablet that’s also a fully-functional desktop computer. It offers power delivery, video output, and data transfer across a single port.Īpple acknowledges the function of the patent is a computer that can be used as a keyboard, but notes the technology could apply to other input devices. Thunderbolt 4, for example, is perfect for such use. Apple could configure this port, according to the patent application, “to receive data and power and configured to output data from the processing unit”. The input device would have an input/output (I/O) port that would allow you to connect it to any external display. A drawing from the patent application, with the desktop computer components housed underneath the keyboard (see arrow). The entire all-in-one computer consists of its components, including the Mac’s System-on-a-Chip (SoC), memory, storage, and so forth, encapsulated within a device like a Magic Keyboard. The patent is titled “computer in an input device”. This is precisely what Cupertino appears to be considering for a future Mac, but in a much sleeker aesthetic. The Raspberry Pi 400, released in November 2020, includes all the components of a desktop computer inside the keyboard housing.