Apple applies for Removable Touchscreen Laptop Patent

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Some of the more recent Apple patent applications have been really far out of this world, and the same could be said for this latest patent which files for a removable touchscreen laptop. In essence the patent files for a laptop (with all of the hardware located under the keyboard) and a touchscreen that can be removed and carried about while the operating system is streamed to the touchscreen from the laptop via a 60GHz ultrawideband format. While at first it sounds like Apple is copying the Asus Transformer Prime, in actuality this patent filing is more similar to the Asus Transformer AIO than the Transformer Prime. The only major difference is that the touchscreen display doesn't have any actual hardware of its own, so if you get out of range of the laptop, it will stop working.

While this sounds interesting we're not sure how it could be useful in real life. If you're going to do a mobile presentation (one where you're walking a lot) it makes sense to have a fully operational tablet rather than a touchscreen display that stops working if you walk too far away from the laptop part of the unit. It could also be Apple's answer for a more powerful tablet for developers (who have often complained that most tablets are simply not powerful enough to handle what they do on a daily basis). Can anyone say Apple iPadBook?

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