MacBooks could one day feature a glass form factor alongside dual-display and built-in wireless iPhone charger - iMore

Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent exertion from Apple that has to bash with a imaginable aboriginal MacBook. At the bosom of the patent application, No. 20220326777, is simply a laptop constructed with a solid form. The details present look to lucifer oregon widen an Apple patent awarded successful June for a dual-display MacBook with a built-in wireless iPhone charger.

According to Patently Apple (opens successful caller tab), the astir caller patent application, Apple's imaginable merchandise would see a glass-top MacBook interface that's reconfigurable to correspond a virtual keyboard, a crippled controller, oregon a music/entertainment controller. The country could besides service arsenic a reverse charging country for products similar the iPhone and Apple Watch.

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Apple initially filed for this patent successful 2018. In the latest application, the institution added 20 caller patent claims to their invention. 

Patently Apple went done each of those claims and highlighted immoderate cardinal points our readers volition astir apt astir appreciate. Among these: 

As we noted previously, Apple's patent besides makes provisions for displays utilizing some LCDs, LEDs, and OLED show technology, thing we've heard rumored for aboriginal MacBooks in 2024.

All this (continues to) dependable interesting. However, nary of these advances whitethorn travel to a aboriginal Apple product.

One astir definite thing: the soon-to-be-announced 2022 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models won't look overmuch antithetic than the existent models. Instead, they are lone expected to diagnostic spot updates inside. 

Earlier this year, Apple unveiled its M2 MacBook Air and M2 MacBook Pro (2022).