Seems quite functional and elegant. Everything that touchbar is not. In retrospect, I think Apple's gonna regret the touchbar design. (But I do have doubts on this touchscreen design like how frictionless it is for a user to switch back and forth between its touchpad and touchscreen functionalities.)
Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
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Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#72This is really going to distract touch typists due to peripheral vision. If they really want to do something revolutionary, they should try replacing the entire keyboard with a touch screen with haptic feedback (like the MacBook touchpad). Force touch when the keyboard is displayed will act as a keypress. Soft touch will control the mouse pointer.
Sounds absolutely awful. Your hands would be in pain using that after 8 hours.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#73The killer app for this is a touchscreen keypad, for the new generation of technology users that type better on one of those than on an actual keyboard.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#74when apple puts a touchpad along the top it's genius, when asus puts it at the bottom it's "dubious"
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#75Razer has a prototype where the touchpad is an empty slot where you can insert your smartphone into, and use the smartphone screen as touchpad.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#76>Unlike Apple’s limited and unhelpful MacBook Pro Touch Bar… I’m not big fan of the touch bar either, but to state an opinion as fact is just bad journalism.
Especially since it doesn't seem like the author has a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar anyways; the picture provided shows one with a row of standard function keys.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#77Not sure about this design, since it introduces modality where there previously was none. Obviously I haven't used this, so I can't comment on it that way, but I fear people accidentally tapping on things in the trackpad when it's in "touchscreen" mode when they really meant to move their cursor around.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
It probably wouldn't sell enough numbers and would be a financial disaster. As an option, that'd be nice. But that'd probably require re-engineering the inside shell...
Until much more recently than I care to admit I'd never experienced an TrackPoint, and was (consequently) of the opinion that laptops were nearly unusable without a table and external mouse. TrackPoints make laptops actually usable (for me, at least).
yeah I had an old thinkpad that had one (pre-lenovo). Once I got used to it, it was the best pointing device by far. But anyone trying to use it on my laptop would instantly go 'nah-ah'.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#79Seems quite functional and elegant. Everything that touchbar is not. In retrospect, I think Apple's gonna regret the touchbar design. (But I do have doubts on this touchscreen design like how frictionless it is for a user to switch back and forth between its touchpad and touchscreen functionalities.)
> Seems quite functional and elegant. Everything that touchbar is not.
How so?
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#80I am genuinely puzzled - what problem does this solve?