Perhaps instead of innovating up a touch bar , Apple could innovate us up some sort of Mac desktop that can serve dual purpose as a power dock for a MacBook . Most people are content to plug their laptop into a monitor . That accounts for most of what you need from a desktop computer . Of course , if you want a more powerful computer by plugging it in , you ' d need something like another graphics card bolted to the monitor which the laptop can use when it ' s plugged in . That would require the ultra high speed internal PCIe bus to be extended over some kind of external port . It ' s ridiculous that Apple hasn ' t innovated in this area at all . Say , by working on some new interface standard that would allow this obviously with the help of Intel since the chipset would need to support it . For consistency , maybe they can use the USBC port and have them adapt to whatever you happen to plug in . Yeah , that ' d be cool . And maybe they can call it some name that matches Lightning . Maybe . Thunderbolt or something ?