Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800

Re:Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800 by veidr on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:30AM (#24020681)

Totally agree, I had a Dell XPS 15 touchscreen laptop, and while I found Windows too unproductive to replace my MacBook Pro for development work, going back to the dumb non-touch screen made the Mac frustrating.

I would use the mouse/pad/keyboard 90% or maybe 95% of the time — but the inability to just tap the button or pinch-zoom or whatever the other 5% of the time... it's just stupid.

All 5-year-olds perceive screens that you can't directly interact with to be broken... and they're right.

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Re:Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800 by mixmastamyk on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:48PM (#24025307)

I was forced to get a touchscreen by dell to get 4k. I never touch it, have an external keyboard and mouse. When I clean it, it produces a lot of erroneous input.

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Re:Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800 by Tagbert on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:19PM (#24031371)

Perhaps you should turn off the touchscreen so you don’t accidentally trigger it.

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Re:Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800 by mixmastamyk on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:53PM (#24031650)

Interesting, happens rarely so never thought of it:

    xinput list
    xinput disable 11

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Re:Silicon MacBook could launch on 27 October and cost $800 by Lio on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:27AM (#24027501)

I have an XPS 13 with a 4K touch screen. I view it as an anti-feature that I occasionally brush with weird unwanted effects.

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