Apple is investigating how to build a MacBook Pro which could lift itself automatically to provide greater ventilation in intensive work when components are running hot.
Apple has previously researched a bendable version of the MacBook Pro, one whose chassis has a seamless hinge instead of the regular two-part clamshell design. One benefit of that would be that the display would open without a complex mechanism connecting it to the base.
None of us think about how the display connects to that base when we open a MacBook Pro, but it seems that Apple does.
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