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Kuo: OLED MacBook Pro to Feature Touch Screen Display
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Interesting idea. Apple would have to change the way their laptop hinges work, though. Considering that their hinges are already quite good, I would worry about that. I have never used a touchscreen laptop that didn't wobble when you touched the screen. I can understand why a fully rotating design might be appealing for some, though, just to use the laptop as an external display without the keyboard. Of course, if you want that, you might as well have an iPad.
you'll get way more than 40%. theres reason they didnt really want to talk about it during iPhone event. they want this as main selling point on M5 Macs (and other M-based devices)
I've used touch screen Windows laptops for work and honestly, I never remembered they had it so I never used it. Muscle memory for me with laptops is keyboard/trackpad.
I don't want touch screens on MacBook as much as I want pencil support on its trackpad
Yeah, no thanks.
(For the fingerprint averse, which I am one, I had a colleague who used to write over his iMac screen in dry wipe marker during teaching office hours).
(For the fingerprint averse, which I am one, I had a colleague who used to write over his iMac screen in dry wipe marker during teaching office hours).
I think Apple is beginning a transition phase. Rumoured iPhone fold would cannibalise iPad mini sales.
Are they now working on refreshed device lineup?
- Apple Watch fitness
- iPhone flip (please !! For small phone stuff)
- iPhone fold (for iPhone & small iPad related tasks)
- MacBook (touch) for larger iPad / laptop scenarios.
- Desktop Mac & vision devices (for spatial computing stuff)
Push the industry to new devices & increase that 🍎🐷🏦 even more.
Are they now working on refreshed device lineup?
- Apple Watch fitness
- iPhone flip (please !! For small phone stuff)
- iPhone fold (for iPhone & small iPad related tasks)
- MacBook (touch) for larger iPad / laptop scenarios.
- Desktop Mac & vision devices (for spatial computing stuff)
Push the industry to new devices & increase that 🍎🐷🏦 even more.
I second this experience. I've owned a Surface Laptop and a Surface Pro before, and although I knew that touch was available on both, it never really occurred to me that I should use it, over the mouse and/or keyboard. It's really whatever you're used to.
no, apple is beginning a "trying to bleed a rock" phase. since there is no more market space for any mainstream device, they try specialized devices for very small user groups. watch ultra and vision were the first ones.
To be fair, it's already begun – many people just don't realise it yet.
macOS Tahoe 26 is a clear indication of the direction of travel. Hopefully, Apple will make it just work.
Perhaps should go back and watch an interview that included Craig Federighi, where he et al, dismissed this idea, out of hand. THey'd cannibalise iPad sales, and the biggest reason why it won't happen, sales of touch screen windows laptops, are far from successful. So many companies that brought them out, have shelved them.
Someone brought up hinges & it’s a good point. I’m thinking they’ll need to change the hinge so it can go 180 degrees flat. That will allow it to be used with an Apple Pencil for drawing & that’ll probably be really popular with some artists.
i don't want no fokin fingerprints on my macbook pro screen! Put an 5G modem instead so we don't depend on iphone for connectivity.
I'm thinking this could be good. Just because you have a touch screen capable laptop it doesn't mean you have to use the touch functionality all the time.
Of course it's good if user interface elements are somewhat adjusted to it without compromising non-touch usage, but maybe that is what Apple is going for with their new user interface design?
Of course it's good if user interface elements are somewhat adjusted to it without compromising non-touch usage, but maybe that is what Apple is going for with their new user interface design?
Had a surface pro 4 back when I was in the corporate world, and barely used the touch. As an iPad user, the touch was not a smooth experience - how much of that was the surface hardware versus windows I’m not sure. The surface pen for writing notes was about all I ever used the touch for, and that was okay, though not as nice as the Apple Pencil and iPad combo.
Like you, I don’t notice a lot of use of touch by those who had a surface. Maybe 15-20% seemed to use it frequently, and mainly for scrolling, which for me was just much faster and easier with the trackpad (as crap as that was on the surface pro). We only issued the surface pro to executives and senior leaders, so the age skewed up - suspect if wider employee population had them instead of the chunky black Dell’s there would have been a lot more use by the under 30 crowd.
Ain't no way they are going to eat into their own product line. They want you to own and iPad and a Mac, and an iPhone and all the rest.
Maybe y'all complainers should give a bit more credit to Apple.
If a touchscreen MBP is coming, most certainly Apple has thought of a real use case for it, rather than being a mere alternative to what we can already do with the mouse/trackpad and keyboard.
If a touchscreen MBP is coming, most certainly Apple has thought of a real use case for it, rather than being a mere alternative to what we can already do with the mouse/trackpad and keyboard.
Considering OLED burn-in is unfortunately still a thing as evidenced by reviewers, I really hope they offer mini-LED variants.
I used it a lot when I had a Surface laptop 3, it was natural switching for iPad to laptop.
Would I use it for everything? No, but it is handy!
I'll believe it when I actually see it. Which will be never. How many times has Apple senior leadership stated, very plainly and firmly, that they believe that tablets are a different thing to a desktop/laptop and with a different UI need. They're not going to do it.
