The greatest weak point of the Surface Pro has all the time been its lapability, ie. its potential to be steady on slim and uneven surfaces corresponding to your lap or an aeroplane seatback tray.
Microsoft has printed a patent the place they intention to handle the problem, and naturally, it makes use of extra magnets for the trick.
Microsoft suggests in such circumstances it could be greatest to fold the removable Surface keyboard backwards beneath your Surface Pro, to behave as a big and inflexible base, which would supply a flat floor for the kickstand.
One concern nevertheless is that the versatile hinge of the Surface keyboard would nonetheless enable a whole lot of motion if you contact the display screen. Microsoft’s resolution is so as to add extra magnets to the hinge connector (105 above and 116 under) which might connect with oppositely polarized magnets on the again of the Surface keyboard or plates made of sentimental steel and thereby add some rigidity to the versatile hinge on the Surface keyboard.
Microsoft notes the present magnets within the Surface connector may be uncovered such that they may connect with each the Surface Pro and the again of the Surface keyboard to carry out the identical duties.
The patent, which will be seen right here, was filed on the fifth February 2020, and printed on the first April 2021. Given that it doesn’t sound too difficult we are going to hopefully see it discover some real-world utility sooner or later.
