I honestly hope that a touch iMac isn't in the pipelines for any time soon. I have a 27" mid '10, and the thought of having to point and tap for everything seems like a nightmare. While OS X might be able to be modified to be simpler and better suited for touch, think about all the 3rd party programs. I can't even begin to imagine Adobe Creative Suite with touch, you would be restricted to browsers (I use Firefox, always have, always will). There is a very very long list of things that would need to change for it to work. In small devices like the iPad, which imo is about as big as you should go with touch, and phones, touch works well. Any higher than 10" and it becomes more work. I will be sticking with the biggest iMac that is available at the time, and whether that is 27" or 30" hopefully again, the thought of using a screen that size for touch is horrible. The mouse works perfectly well, though I use my trackpad 99% of the time. The trackpad probably isn't ideal for most people, but I like the fact that I can get from one edge of the screen to the other just by moving my wrist, and all the multi-touch abilities that comes with it.
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I'd be content if they fixed the display issues, hard drive noise, and fan issues. Any other changes then that would be a bonus 
OSX lion will make a touchscreen essential ,as there would be no point otherwise to bring iOS parts into OSX without a touchscreen ..... so excuse me i do not want a giant oversized iphone on my desk and in the last 20 years i had never a problem getting the software i did need or want , so wheres the point of a app store then ...unless you can order the disc's of the app too, as i am old fashioned and like to have things that are physical mine not only virtual, yes even today in the year 2010 i still buy music in form of cd's
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Really, what model did you use? How long did you use it for before forming an opinion about it? Have you used more than one implementation of it? If you have, what were they?
What did you not like about it to make you think that it 'sucked' and what could Apple do to improve it?
Also, given a little research, I stand by my original guess.
Here is a post saying you would by a Pystar machine:
But here a post saying that Apple is a cult and you must follow Steve Jobs.
There's no code to enter.
And yes it could be used again, however.. Because apple is a cult we would never dishonor Steve Jobs. We would buy another disk
Then there is this post where you evangelize something, someone asks for details, and you follow up with:
I see a pattern
Would you like me to get more of my facts straight?If you would like, I can keep going. You have quite a few gems posted, where you not only contradicted yourself, but other posters call you out for generalizations, etc. Several posts with 'I'm a PC tech' and you clearly have no idea what you are talking about, such as those cool new "iCore5's", or transferring dell oem licenses to a Mac (forbidden by Microsoft EULA).
You tend to talk alot about what you don't know...
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The Touch-Screen Mac seems to still be several years off. Jobs made it a point at the "Back to the Mac" event to show that Apple does not think touch-screen computers are a viable solution right not. I do understand that patent with the flat iMac would change things, but I don't see Apple doing it.
OSX Lion will leverage the Multi-Touch trackpads and the Magic Mouse. Can't wait, since it seems Apple is finally giving the Mac some attention in 2011.
OSX Lion will leverage the Multi-Touch trackpads and the Magic Mouse. Can't wait, since it seems Apple is finally giving the Mac some attention in 2011.
The idea is, I think, that you could use it for certain things. You certainly wouldn't be limited to using it exclusively.
I think that is extremely unlikely.
OSX lion will make a touchscreen essential ,as there would be no point otherwise to bring iOS parts into OSX without a touchscreen ..... so excuse me i do not want a giant oversized iphone on my desk and in the last 20 years i had never a problem getting the software i did need or want , so wheres the point of a app store then ...unless you can order the disc's of the app too, as i am old fashioned and like to have things that are physical mine not only virtual, yes even today in the year 2010 i still buy music in form of cd's
Why would Lion make a touchscreen essential? Apple is not going to abandon millions of people who own current Macs by producing a new OS that requires a touch screen. Any Mac now shipping or probably any Mac running Snow Leopard will run Lion just fine assuming there's enough RAM.
Jobs already said that touchscreen desktops and laptops don't work. Pay attention. All this touchscreen iMac wishful thinking won't change the fact that it makes no sense ergonomically.
There is also a couple Apple Certified Value Added Reseller that convert MacBooks or iMacs into touch screen machines. Mac OS X has been workable in touch screen since Ink(well) was added in 10.2. Sure it could be way better but mostly would require developers to target touch as the primary user interaction. Plus Resolution Independence sure would help too.
If we see such a device then it's going to need Lion, which is after the next iMac refresh at best. Maybe end of 2011 as an all new device. Logically I think it would supplant the low end iMac freeing the High end iMacs to better service the station wagon market.
Hey I know Steve said Touch screens don't work vertically. But he said nothing of what angle they would need to be to be comfortable. Would a 30º screen be a nice angle to work both sitting and standing.
Right. Abandoning users is a bit of an understatement, more like abandoning their entire business.
Like I said earlier, the transition to touchscreen devices will take a good 10 years or so and it's already begun but we're still a ways off from the touchscreen (only!) desktop. No one's invented it yet.
And by "no one's invented it" I mean that a usable day-to-day touchscreen desktop computer (that is just as efficient or more than the current desktop) has not been invented.
Maybe you need to pay attention. Jobs said it wouldn't work on a vertical screen.
Hence why I pointed out the patent of the iMac that goes horizontal.
Sorry if I implied that things would be 100% touch based. This is not part of my prediction.
I was saying that certain apps can utilize touch based input. This is in response to influence of certain iOS features within Mac OS X Lion, such as the Launchpad for instance.
I get the feeling that Lion has been designed to take advantage of touch input (via the Launchpad, Mission Control, etc) for programs that are designed for touch input.
Certainly typing in Pages using touch on an iMac would be down right silly.
So once again, I am not suggesting that the whole experience is going to touch, just certain aspects that is totally to the discretion of the user.
Please read my initial post! I am not suggesting everything is going 100% touch and whoever doesn't have a 'touch screen iMac' is screwed.
I am suggesting Lion may take advantage of touch input while still maintaining the ability to do everything from a keyboard/mouse/trackpad, input will be to the discretion of the user.
OS X Lion could be the perfect balance between being able to utilize touch based input and regular input.
What is unlikely? The end of OSX? Seriously, name some other cats in the big cat family, besides the leopard variants. OSX is nearing the end.
OSX has been around for around 10 years now. What do you think?
He also said prior to the unveiling of the iPad that people don't read books anymore
Let's not forget about the supposed Powerbook G5 and 3.0+ GHz PPC among probably a many other things he said would happen but never came through.