numericcitizen
numericcitizen

I’ve been baited into writing about touch screen Macs once more

I don’t think these Macs would look like today’s clamshell MacBooks, they would have a new form factor more similar to iPads.

What if a touchscreen Mac only allowed for scrolling content with fingers? If the touchscreen Mac is not convertible, what other use of touch than scrolling would people do with a touchscreen Mac? What are people doing on Windows with a touch screen, really?

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jagibson
jagibson

@numericcitizen anecdotally from what I have observed with people using touchscreen laptops, scrolling has been the biggest use case. I still have a surface book 3 that I use for certain things but never really got into the touchscreen when in laptop mode. I always just removed the screen to navigate the device in tablet mode.

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numericcitizen
numericcitizen

@jagibson I forgot about "zoming" use case but I suspect it is even more less the case.

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jagibson
jagibson

@numericcitizen yeah, personally I find reaching to a laptop screen to zoom takes too much effort for me vs a good trackpad or mouse, but I’m happy to chalk that up to being a gen x person 🤣

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