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Not content with going gesture-crazy and turning mouse scrolling upside down in Mac OS X Lion, Apple has been pondering ways of tossing the traditional keyboard in the dustbin. A new Apple patent application has surfaced revealing Cupertino’s take on an entirely flat, touch-sensitive keyboard that come to future MacBooks.

We’ve already seen similar touchscreen keyboards on real world products including the Acer Iconia 6102 and the Toshiba Libretto W100 but Apple’s design takes the concept a little bit further…

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2011 macbook air geekbench resultsThe subtle change in clock speed from 1.4 to 1.6 GHz in the 2011 11-inch MacBook Air might sound small on paper, but in terms of benchmarks, it’s nothing short of monumental. Using Geekbench as a baseline, the late 2010 13-inch MacBook Air scored 2681 with its Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz processor while the 11-inch 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo managed a respectable 2024. Ready to have your mind blown with the 2011 MacBook Air Geekbench results? We thought so.

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New 27-inch Apple Thunderbolt display: one cable to rule them allIn need of a Apple display to pair with that Thunderbolt port on your new Mac Mini or MacBook Air? Look no further than the 27-inch Apple Thunderbolt display. With one cable you can add a high-resolution display, excellent audio, a FaceTime HD camera, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet ports. If that wasn’t reason enough for an upgrade, how about Thunderbolt’s ability to daisy-chain devices such as hard drives and video capture cards?

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You’ve got to love the range of tracking apps available on phones and laptops today. After San Francisco based Joshua Kaufman had his MacBook Pro stolen from his flat, he used one such service, Hidden, to track its location and even take photos of the alleged thief using it in his own home – which he then published on the hilariously named Tumblr blog This Guy Has My MacBook.

In the last few hours, the local police finally managed to use the evidence he’d acquired to hunt him down, arrest him and seize the MacBook, so it’s WIN for Joshua Kaufman and WIN for the internet.

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Apple doesn’t own the idea of using aluminium in gadget designs or creating a phone where the touchscreen is the focus of all your attentions but there’s a certain Cupertino touch that other manufacturers relentlessly attempt to mimic.

We’ve seen it this morning with the unveiling of the Dell XPS 15z which cops a lot of moves from the MacBook Pro – from its aluminium/magnesium alloy shell to the placement of its speakers, the arrows on its backlit keyboard and the positioning of its ports and slot-loading DVD drive. Is it asking to much to expect designers to do something a little different?

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We’re halfway through this super short week already, so let’s take a break and see what’s been going down this morning. We’ve got gadget news good and bad right here in our lunchtime lowdown roundup.

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Remember Kevin Kenney? No? He’s the former carbon fiber bicycle maker who rocked up at Apple last month to become Senior Composites Engineer. His arrival has fired up lots of rumours about carbon fiber futures for Apple products including the iPad and the iPhone. The latest rumour is that those new MacBook Pro models we’re expecting will rock up with new black, composite casings to go with improved specs…

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The next MacBook Pro will arrive with an entirely new design, according to the latest product of the Apple rumourmill. Apple tends to revitalise the case design of its laptops once every three years so the change would be right on schedule.

Given that Apple has been touting the MacBook Air as “the next generation of MacBooks” which suggest there’s a good chance that the next generation MacBook Pro will arrive without an optical drive and a significantly slimmed down profile. Hit the headline and let us know what you want Apple to do with the next MacBook Pro.

Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (via MacRumors)

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