Re:Apple Reportedly Working on Touchscreen Macs, Including M...
by BoorishBears on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:24PM
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During the height of the touchscreen ultrabook craze I had a "touchscreen MacBook" by setting up my Zenbook as a Hackintosh.
It honestly wasn't that useful past being a party trick: it's not very ergonomic to touch a laptop screen unless it folds completely like a convertible laptop. A convertible MacBook could be interesting, but that's already the niche the iPad Pro seems to try to fill despite its OS hangups.
And like the article mentions the OS X UI is not at all designed for touch input, touch targets are tiny, lots of precise movements to navigate menus, etc.
It honestly wasn't that useful past being a party trick: it's not very ergonomic to touch a laptop screen unless it folds completely like a convertible laptop. A convertible MacBook could be interesting, but that's already the niche the iPad Pro seems to try to fill despite its OS hangups.
And like the article mentions the OS X UI is not at all designed for touch input, touch targets are tiny, lots of precise movements to navigate menus, etc.