This is the logical next step and I’m all for it except it would be great if PC manufacturers first made their trackpads at least as good as Apple’s before they move on to whole new technologies.
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
#182Toshiba produced a model ca. 2002 with a display in the trackpad. That the idea of an additional display in that form factor hasn't caught on says a lot about the usefulness of the feature in general.
It's tough to imagine the end-user utility will outweigh the engineering challenges to make this viable longterm.
https://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?conten...
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#183It's another Window tethered to your trackpad. Probably my cynical side talking but I don't see how this will save me much time from using Spotlight, Alfred or Launchy. And yes, I have a touchbar and feel much the same towards it.
On the flip side, having all keys as little oleds that can be remapped to anything I want is something I would likely use constantly.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#184Off-topic: I had to whitelist javascript on the AMP page to get it to load properly, where it promptly pulled down nine JS scripts: https://imgur.com/SkQgMOU Wasn't the whole point of AMP to stop this crap?
Loading multiple scripts from one site isn't actually a performance issue. With HTTP2 there's almost no overhead since they all get multiplexed as streams over the same connection. With server push you also don't even have to have to wait for multiple round trips.
https://medium.com/@asyncmax/the-right-way-to-bundle-your-as...
AMP is more focused on UI responsiveness with things like having a fixed content layout so the page doesn't jump around when things load, as well as loading things asynchronously in the background so first paint is faster. Splitting up the JS so only the first paint JS loads immediately and then progressively upgrade the page is actually a good thing. It makes it immediately usable for slow connections.
https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/spec#performanc...
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#185So you PC/windows guys, wasn't having a touchscreen on your laptop the be-all and end-all? Didn't work out? Wasn't gimmicky enough?
So many fingerprints
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#186Toshiba produced a model ca. 2002 with a display in the trackpad. That the idea of an additional display in that form factor hasn't caught on says a lot about the usefulness of the feature in general. It's tough to imagine the end-user utility will outweigh the engineering challenges to make this viable longterm. https://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?conten...
> That the idea of an additional display in that form factor hasn't caught on says a lot about the usefulness of the feature in general.
Or maybe it says more about the economics. Screens have gotten cheaper since then.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can just display what's on main screen and have nice touch support without having your fingerprints visible on screen and wiggling laptop.
That could work well! Although it's not really what the article suggests. If you have Spotify on your touchpad like in the picture in the article, that means that you can't use your touchpad - I imagine it would be bloody annoying.
At worst you have to hit a button to switch input type. An extra keypress before using touch controls isn't too bad.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
At first sight the thing is terrifying, but it seems a rather quite reasonable alternative play on the touchbar that does not mess with the ability to sell the device. Two massive benefits: the tactile response of the keyboard is totally preserved, and the feature can be entirely disabled for conservative users who cannot think of an immediate use for the display. Clearly it will appeal to gadgeteers (as much as I ex…
Is there a way to "attach" a tablet to a W10 laptop as an extra monitor? It makes sense but don't think I've been able to find a viable solution.
A Windows 10 tablet (I can't name one, but some probably exist) has this out of the box with the wireless screen projection (win+K). I had to do this laptop to laptop to projector for a lightning talk once after the first laptop had a broken display port adapter - surprisingly fast to setup and 0 latency.
I'd be surprised if something didn't exist for Android tablets. But if you have an old laptop laying around, maybe throw w10 on it and see if it works?
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve been trying to find a cheaper MBP replacement after 10 years with 3 MBP. Everything else is ugly. Some decent choices end up at the or worse price point as Apple.
Which model are you currently on because my top of the line 2013 15 inch MBP is still running like a champ. If you are willing to try out windows, the surface pros are actually pretty sweat. I got one for my gf for grad school and will probably get one for myself if my MBP ever dies.
Retina 2012 MBP but the battery is practically dead and the monitor seems to be not bright as it used to be. I wouldn’t mind a CPU/RAM upgrade.
Re: Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
#190Dave 2D had a great video review on this product. What makes this totally different from the touch bar is with the touch bar, you have to wait for developers to add support in their products (or as a dev, write your own tooling). Apple has the muscle to simply make everyone support their crappy bar. The ZenBook screen is usable right away by anybody. You can just drag any window there. It can be your Steam chat while…
> I wonder if it will work on Linux. If it's on one of the built-in Intel graphics outputs, then it will likely work out of the box (though of course none of the desktops will understand where it's supposed to be and probably put it in the wrong place, etc...). If it's some crazy piece of hardware Asus found, then maybe never.
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