MacBook Zen Concept

90% Hardware, 10% Screen?

Today on my 13” MacBook Pro touchbar, seneca did something interesting:

He turned off the screen brightness to zero, and when having the music app open, he controlled the music only using the touch bar.

Which made me think:

Imagine if Apple made a MacBook laptop (the ‘MacBook Zen’) which was literally a typewriter– only the physical keyboard and the tiny touchbar area which showed the text you were typing.

Do you remember the super early-old-school ‘digital’ keyboards, which was literally just a typewriter with a tiny LCD strip on top? Might be a good cure for ‘writer’s block’ or those who are too distracted when writing!

Imagine a MacBook Pro Touchbar (13”) without the LCD screen– only the bottom part! The exact opposite of an iPad.