MacBook Pro to Offer Sun-backlit LCD Display According to Patent [Apple to Use External Light for Lighting Up MacBook Pro Display; Sun Not Sure If It Wants the Job]

Posted on TFTS by Chris Smith on Thursday, 25. March 2010 under: Computers & Computing, PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets

As much as I’d love to tell you that the new MacBook Pros are in and ready to dazzle us with those 2010 Intel Core chips, I can’t do it yet. Apple hasn’t announced the much anticipated laptop refresh and we’ll have to wait some more to get it. What Apple did was to submit a new MacBook Pro-related patent which reveals how our future laptops could look like.

In all honesty the patent was submitted back in 2008 but was revealed only recently. Like most crazy Apple patents it offers some ingenious solutions to our current tech-related “problems” but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll see sun-backlit MacBook Pros anytime soon.

Because that’s exactly what the patent in question is suggesting, a laptop LCD that would be backlit by the sun and other external light sources and that way one could save a bunch of battery juice and extend even more one’s working sessions.

An LCD powered by the sun light would also be a lot easier to view when using the laptop outside, wouldn’t it? Not that we plan on working outside that often, do we?

The patent application is called “External Light Illumination of Display Screens,” and it’s definitely interesting even though it might not be put to use anytime soon. And while we’re discussing ideas, the same light that’s illuminating the screen could maybe recharge the battery while we’re not using the machine? Has anyone asked the sun if it’s up for the job?

MacBook Pro lovers that are simply waiting for Apple to refresh its laptop line could care less right now about the distant future of their beloved laptop. What it matters to them right now is the present MacBook models. They want to start using those Intel Core i5/i7 chips as fast as possible, so what do you say, Apple, are you ready to launch them yet?

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