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Would the Optimus Maximus keyboard work?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Optimus+Maximus+keyboard&tbm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard

It exists but hasn't taken over the world.

Apparently Apple's working an OLED display above their keyboard.

http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/23/apple-prepping-thinner-macbook...




A keyboard with OLED keycaps that change depending on the context would be reason enough to get a new laptop altogether, even though I have a brand new one.

As someone who context-switches from XCode to IntelliJ to Photoshop to Emacs, sometimes I confuse the shortcuts, and I don't learn more shortcuts because I'm afraid they will not carry over to other programs. Having discoverable shortcuts would be amazing.


Yea, it always surprised me that Apple hadn't fully copied this idea for Mac books. Maybe it needed to wait for OLEDs?




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