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gaetanzo t1_j4620pt wrote

I'm so old I still get mad when someone touches my external display.. and still work 90% of my day using an external display. I cannot stand having finger prints on the screen of the device I use to actually get work done. If there was a touchscreen on my 16" MBP M1 Max I would never use it. That said I know there's a huge market of people that causally use their Mac and it might be something they want. I am sure the option will be nice for some people I just hope there's an option to skip it if you don't want it.

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FruitFly t1_j46vxqx wrote

You can have a touchscreen but not actually use it. I have a touchscreen laptop that I only use the touchscreen on when traveling, which isn't that often any more. I forget that it is a touchscreen most of the time, as I've got it set up in stand and the laptop display functions more like a secondary display.

Also, not sure if my own device is just special, but my laptop touchscreen never really shows fingerprints after being touched (while my stationary monitor definitely does if it's touched). It's not the same type of screen as phones and tablets have. (I am CONSTANTLY wiping down my tablet and phone because the fingerprints irk the shit out of me.)

It's not like the device having a touchscreen suddenly means you can't use the mouse and keyboard to do things - the touchscreen is just one of the options when it's there.

Windows has the option to disable the touchscreen as well if it's troublesome, and I would assume Apple would build the same option. (Might not be fair to assume, as Apple does make some weird decisions sometimes, but still.)

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