I think the idea will be great and just looking at the new itunes 11 its clear a touch enabled mac is coming, some people are just close minded until apple approve the idea lol.
You hit the nail on the head. If Apple is not the "creator" then it's stupid or worthless according to the fanboys. You just saw how they reacted here, it's typical on these forums.
And yes, Jobs said so many things, like "who watches videos on a small screen", criticizing the psp and devices alike, and then we know what happened.
So... back to your initial question/post... my guess is: yes, there will be a Macbook touch. Not anytime soon, but I don't see any reason why not. Seems to be the present/future.
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NOT A CHANGE nbaWong.
Don't you find those "convertibles" kludgy? No, OK, that's normal for Windows folks.
Apple is about elegance. It's about simplicity. It's the insistence to have a one-button iPhone, a one-button mouse when everybody else is doing otherwise.
And for the often asked question, Is there going to be a touchscreen Macbook? (SEARCH, asked everyday). Jobs once said they tried it, a lot, and at the end of the day they found it good for demo, but tires arm for real use.
As much as I love my MBR, my iPhone, iPad, etc, I can also tell u that a 1 button mouse might be the staple of stubbornness from Apple, and not the staple of elegance. It's funny to see "us" doing magic to do the right click, which we definitively need in day to day functions.
Ey, don't kill me for not drinking the kool aid, but I can also tell u that I tried the latest Sony notebook touchscreen with Windows 8 and no, it's not "a bag of hurt" or anything similar. It's a pretty good, solid, nice, clean, concept.
Will I buy it? No. That doesnt mean I can't recognize when something else, different than Apple is good.
On that note... I remember when someone stepped in my office with a carbon-fiber black IBM thinkpad in 2000. And every Apple fan was like "ohh whatever that's just plastic". Now I read that Apple might be exploring carbon fiber....