Touch screens are not pleasant for laptops. I prefer not to have them.
You don't have to use it.
Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
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Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#22Touch screens are not pleasant for laptops. I prefer not to have them.
It's actually quite pleasant user experience for scrolling. Some interactions are better with a pointer, others are better with touch.
You can try it on an iPad with Magic Keyboard attached, it's very good to be able to do precision through the trackpad and then casually move large things on the screen with your fingers.
Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#23Touch screens are not pleasant for laptops. I prefer not to have them.
It's actually quite pleasant user experience for scrolling. Some interactions are better with a pointer, others are better with touch. You can try it on an iPad with Magic Keyboard attached, it's very good to be able to do precision through the trackpad and then casually move large things on the screen with your fingers.
Agree for iPad. But for a laptop trackpads ftw!
Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#24Checking this profile of a random hacker in 2018, of course they are now working on AI.
I was working on AI in 2018 too :)
At that time, I was quite interested in adversarial examples and ML security.
Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#25I wouldn't want a touchscreen MBP even if it was free, anyone else feel similar? I don't get the draw - we already optimize for keyboard commands to avoid living our fingers over to a touchpad. Why would I want to start clicking on my screen? If you're using your computer for tasks (rather than entertainment) and you're not a visual designer, I don't get why Apple are apparently going to be putting them into the new…
Macs are definitely not optimized for keyboard commands. If you feel the software you use is keyboard optimized, odds are it's not really Mac software.
Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#26Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#27I wouldn't want a touchscreen MBP even if it was free, anyone else feel similar? I don't get the draw - we already optimize for keyboard commands to avoid living our fingers over to a touchpad. Why would I want to start clicking on my screen? If you're using your computer for tasks (rather than entertainment) and you're not a visual designer, I don't get why Apple are apparently going to be putting them into the new…
> I don't get why Apple are apparently going to be putting them into the new MBP line later this year. Apple has apparently being going to put a touchscreen in a laptop every year since the iPad came out, and it's never materialized.
Previously, those were rumors from enthusiasts who wanted to see it. Now it's an internal leak so there's a lot more credibility to those rumors.
Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#28I wouldn't want a touchscreen MBP even if it was free, anyone else feel similar? I don't get the draw - we already optimize for keyboard commands to avoid living our fingers over to a touchpad. Why would I want to start clicking on my screen? If you're using your computer for tasks (rather than entertainment) and you're not a visual designer, I don't get why Apple are apparently going to be putting them into the new…
Sometimes, if I’ve been using my iPad for awhile and switch over to my MBP, I might reach out and touch the screen out of habit. I can’t be the only one.
Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#29Touch screens are not pleasant for laptops. I prefer not to have them.
You don't have to use it.
As long as there's a way to maintain the current display density, that would be just fine.
However, like on Windows, I suspect macOS would increase the tap target size on lots of the touchable elements. Even if I don't use the touchscreen, I would still have to pay the touch target real estate tax in my applications.
Re: Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you mean they're developing the iPad, an insanely popular device, and you're not sure why they would make such a device?
I have been around touch screen Windows laptops for I don’t know how many years now, and I have never felt even the slightest compulsion to touch the screen.
It might be a generational thing; my kids get touchscreen laptops from their school, and they interact with them almost exclusively by touching the screen. I agree, I'd much rather use a mouse (or even better, a trackball; i wish most laptops still had those)