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Due-Resident-4588 t1_j42w0qh wrote

They honestly don’t need to if we’re just gonna be real. Are touch screen laptops that big of deal for most people? I don’t think so. I myself at least have a MacBook Pro for my desk work and if I need to go somewhere for work I can easily pack it up but when I’m laying in bed or just going up to the local coffee shop for a break I take my iPad. I’m sure some people out there want a touch screen MacBook but I don’t think it’s the majority of people.

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[deleted] t1_j43a1k9 wrote

My work laptop is a touchscreen and I like it a lot. I liked it enough that I sold my MacBook and replaced it with an HP, almost entirely because I wanted my personal laptop to have a touchscreen too. Aaaaaaaaaand then I never ever ever used the touchscreen and ended up selling the HP too, lmao.

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Exotic_Treacle7438 t1_j43nkfm wrote

Damn you got some HP sales reps super fucking excited then sad for a second there.

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0pimo t1_j44okoa wrote

I once absolutely crushed an HP sales rep's ego. I was sitting next to him in a conference room, and he started making fun of my MacBook. I just looked over at his HP Elitebook and said it looked awful lot like my Mac.

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Jaxxftw t1_j45elby wrote

I used to work in retail selling Home Electronics. Back when Windows 8 was launching we had to go and get sales training from Microsoft and the instructor was running it on a Macbook Pro.

Spent a fair amount of time trolling him - "So you're saying you'd like us to upsell to a Mac, you know... the superior Windows computer?"

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[deleted] t1_j4mcns6 wrote

Ha, it was a nice laptop! They did a really good job with the keyboard, it's gigantic. I don't think it's as good as a MacBook but it's still really well made.

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ritchie70 t1_j45018x wrote

My personal laptop is a touch screen and I keep stopping myself on my work one.

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Illusive_Man t1_j46wbr2 wrote

my work laptop is a touch screen and I didn’t even notice until I accidentally touched the screen several weeks into using it

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vampyire t1_j43b4na wrote

I've had touchscreen laptops for 15 years, I could never go back. I'm way more efficient with it.

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juiceyb t1_j43ubq7 wrote

I’m in school right now and it’s been a lifesaver for me. I can read books and highlight with a stylus and it’s mighty handy. When I got my first degree, I had to do it with an iBook. It’s been way easier with the touchscreen to read with my Lenovo laptop. But I’m probably going back to Mac because everything I use for school and work uses Apple products.

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rekjabitch t1_j43n6e1 wrote

I think it's something that like 20% of people get obsessed with.

I have one and use it occasionally (certain buttons are just easier to hit that way for some reason), but my brother uses it non-stop.

There's definitely a market for it, but yeah not 100% of people.

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MajorLeagueNoob t1_j451clq wrote

This thread illustrates how spot on you are with this comment. From what I can tell most people in this thread aren’t huge fans but a few comments have sparked bitter flame wars between touched and the untouched

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Wizywig t1_j43r4qi wrote

Touchscreen support on a mac would be amazing.

Windows tablets are great. And having a touchscreen for drawing is awesome. The fact is that on macs, currently wacoms are kinda the only option. This will open a lot of opportunities.

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YouandWhoseArmy t1_j43ruqn wrote

You can connect an iPad with sidecar and use it with the mac.

I’m not a designer and have no idea if it’s any good.

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0pimo t1_j44pxq8 wrote

Can also do it with your iPhone.

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misterbobdobbalina t1_j44f91u wrote

This is kind of the only thing I’d possibly care about it for. Current options for drawing as a designer on Mac are certainly suboptimal:

  1. Draw analog and scan stuff in
  2. Draw on a Wacom connected to the laptop and get no visual or haptic feedback
  3. Buy an iPad Pro, have a whole separate workflow from your native Illustrator/Photoshop

I’d really like to be able to draw with a stylus directly in the environment I most frequently use for all my creative work.

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PrincessApprentice t1_j4dt81y wrote

If you connect this hypothetical iPad to your hypothetical Mac with sidecar, you can use the touch screen and stylus for your Mac environment

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Sniffy4 t1_j45cc8c wrote

I bought an HP touchscreen laptop and used it for 8 years while barely using the touchscreen. Laptops are for keyboards and touchpads.

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Alimbiquated t1_j43btvd wrote

Touch is handier (geddit?) but much less precise that the mouse.

  • It depends a lot on what you are doing. For browsing it's convenient, but you can't do any detailed work with touch screens
  • It depends on your posture. Touch isn't very useful when your computer is on a desk, but great when you are lying on a couch. If you use the same device in both positions it's a good addition.
  • It depends on what you are used to. I have a touch screen mostly for casual use, but find myself occasionally touching my non-touchscreen since I started using the touch screen.
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sinkovercosk t1_j44v4d6 wrote

How about people who don’t want to pay for two devices?

They could just let the iPad Pro run Mac OS and that would solve the problem but they don’t want to as it will eat into their profits…

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lord_pizzabird t1_j456xkl wrote

I’ve honestly noticed it’s gone quite a bit, after having gone from a windows laptop with it to MacBook.

It just makes your laptop feel more natural. Most of the time you use your trackpad, but on occasion you just want to poke at the screen.

There’s also an entire generation of people coming who expect every screen to be touch enabled by default. It’ll soon be like shipping a black and white tv in the 90s.

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atchijov t1_j45ie8h wrote

IPad Pro with Magic Keyboard is basically Mac Book with touch screen. But when I use they keyboard… I almost never touch the screen.

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E_Snap t1_j45so2p wrote

Literally all they need to do is make a native touch driver for Mac OS so it can be compatible with 3rd party touch screens without requiring you to pay extortionate prices for 3rd party drivers.

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Top_Bodybuilder_4912 t1_j46cz12 wrote

I agree. Touch screens on laptops are kinda eh... And the thing is, this has been known about for some time. They experimented with this back in the 1980s and found that it's actually quite physically stressful to have a hand elevated for any length of time. The keyboard/mouse interface means your arms are rested on a surface. Lifting your arm continually to touch something on your screen gets tiresome.

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What I want is an iPad and MacBook in one purchase. I want a MacBook that works like a laptop but I can pivot the screen 180, close the keyboard interface, and make it an iPad.

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I like having a laptop for when I work on the go, but I could use an iPad for casual browsing and whatnot. I'd happily pay a premium to have both of these in something I can take almost anywhere with me. Maybe this is a step in that direction? I hope so.

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jaakers87 t1_j46sp79 wrote

I don't think very many people care about touchscreen on a laptop but its something handy to have if it comes without tradeoffs in image & screen quality.

I've had touchscreen Windows laptops and never used it. For me I'd rather use a mouse.. But we also have a whole generation of kids coming into the "Laptop" age who grew up using tablets/touch, so I could see how this would be a market driver.

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catkraze t1_j47h5yk wrote

I'd buy one. I went out of my way to buy the last touchbar MacBook pro that Apple said they'd be making.

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Due-Resident-4588 t1_j47xqxp wrote

Eww you bought an Intel MacBook Pro? That thing is awful in performance and battery life next to the new apple silicon models

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catkraze t1_j47xvna wrote

No. It's a silicon model. They made one model of silicon MacBook Pro with a touch bar. 13 inch only.

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