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No touchscreen is a sign of age.

Touchscreens are a BS feature for laptops. Our hands where not made to be used a pointers held at those angles. Nobody uses their Wintel laptops that way either, even when they have the feature.

Now if you're talking about detachable screens, that could be the case. But there are tablets for that, that are even more convenient and specialized to long term use in that way.

Agreed, I watch these stupid MS commercials where they are using the touchscreen on the laptop and it's SOOO gimmicky. No one really does that. I completely agree on the detachable screen though, of course at that point get an iPad Pro (for certain workloads)....

I have a touchscreen Toshiba Radius and by far use the touchscreen more than I ever expected to. In fact, it's rare that I use the trackpad any more.

I'm writing this comment on my 8-month-old MacBookPro11,5 with 16 gigs of ram and 1TB SSD drive. I've had 3 brand new MacBook Pros from 2011, 2013, and 2015. The lack of continued innovation on this platform is really starting to show its age.

Interesting, I really don't see myself reaching up 6-8 inches to touch the screen when I can do it faster (and with less finger smudges) from the trackpad but maybe I'm wrong, I love my iPad but I still just don't feel like I would like it on a laptop.

I am a developer, I use the touchscreen sparcely. I use mainly for zooming in and out pdf documents. IMHO tochscreen are a valuable adition to the set of interfaces , to be used for determined gestures in some apps. Also , if you are into mobile dev , you can test the touch functionality on the device emulator.

>I am a developer, I use the touchscreen sparcely. I use mainly for zooming in and out pdf documents.

Yeah, but on a Mac laptop you can do it more conveniently, from the multi-touch trackpad too.

It really depends on the person. If you're not using the keyboard much and you have the laptop on your lap, rather than on a desk, it can be useful. I have a touchscreen, but I never use it. I forget I even have it until I get water on the screen or accidentally touch it, and things start freaking out.

Someone did once say I wasn't a real programmer because I use the mouse too much (and the argument's sort of the same: It's hard to move your hands from the keyboard to the mouse! Why would you do that?), so, since then, I try not to judge people or machines for their preferred methods of user input. There's a market for everyone and to each their own!

You would be surprised. My Mum owns a Lenovo Yoga and she uses the touchscreen all the time - in laptop mode. She uses it often enough that when I show her an article on my (non touch) laptop, she tries to scroll using the screen.

My wife uses her touchscreen laptop all the time.

'nobody' is your opinion. Reality is different.

Nobody an in "a very small number of people".

Of course some do.

A lot of people also loved Apple's "hockey puck" mouse or the Dell Ditty -- but I'd still called them "nobody".

No, it is a sign of choice/design.

A choice Apple admits is desirable in iPads and iPhones.

And? Tablets and phones are not laptops.

>admits

Gorilla Arm Syndrome

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