Apple Patent Reveals Dual Screen MacBook, and It Looks Incredible

Our new touch keyboard - all the battery consumption of our screens, none of the tactile feedback of the keyboard you know and love!

While a poor solution for programming or word processing where input speed is vital, very useful for music, photo and video processing as they are reliant on contextual functions and emulating real-world interfaces.

You could possibly make it quite good for spreadsheets as they're somewhere in the middle between data input (where touchscreen as an input method is slower and frustrating) and function selection/formatting (where, depending on the context of what you're doing, all of the functions you require are suddenly at your fingertips rather than buried somewhere on a ribbon or sub menu).

How did they arrive at the "and it looks incredible" part of the title?

They're going to need to pull off some kind of revolutionary advance in touch keyboards to sell this

I actually appreciate the thought though. It's innovation. Sometimes your keyboard isn't in use; sometimes you only need a subset of the keys. Taking advantage of that would be possible with a second screen. There is potential in the idea

I always wanted a huge Nintendo DS