Thats not the same thing, at all.
The only part that's similar is the key faces can change. They're still physical keys that press individually. It's not multi touch, a key can't suddenly become a slider.
People have short memories but the X1 Carbon Gen2 had a dynamic key strip that was so bad that it got replaced with physical buttons in Gen3.
Or the product is so obscure no one knows what it is? You could have just listed the name of an experimental plane for all I know.
Also, if that is true, perhaps what's truly new is that its actually usable. That's pretty much Apple's thing - making things more usable/useful.
Never heard of Thinkpads before?
Re:MacBook Pro
by SysArchitect on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:08PM
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Op didn't mention Thinkpad. Just mentioned X2 Carbon Something or other.
That could be a jet plane from Lockheed Martin or a Thinkpad...
X-1 is hardly a unique name for a product, even limiting it to computers. Context matters.
what's truly new is that its actually usable
The jury is still out on that one.
Did you just call ThinkPads obscure?
Also there, this one 5 years old has its own ribbon and all the keys with pictures!
http://img.artlebedev.ru/everything_files/images/2857/optimu...
This keyboard with remappable OLED keys was released almost 10 years ago: https://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus/#51709