New Apple Documents Confirm Ambitious MacBook Pro Plans - Forbes

If the keyboard is the heart of the laptop, Apple is considering some radical surgery for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

Tim Cook and his team are expected to launch a significant update to the MacBook family in 2021 with a larger 14-inch screen in MacBook Air and smaller MacBook Pro, and the first release of a MacBook powered by an ARM processor rather than Intel.

It makes for Apple to update the keyboard and user inputs at the same time.

Apple's new MacBook Air is reviewed during the company's showcase of new products Tuesday Oct.

Apple's new MacBook Air computers are displayed during the company's showcase of new products ...

In short, yes, the new MacBook family in 2021 is the perfect time for Apple to update the keyboard.

Even the push towards ARM, a radical step that is going to need some nimble work to maintain software compatibility and integrity, is more about Apple unifying the developer platform (if not the consumer platform) under the same chip architecture… an architecture that will be under Apple’s control and not subject to the whims of the wider computer industry.

If Apple took five years to replace a broken keyboard design, it is hard to envision a radical update with multiple new paradigms to its workhorse laptops.