Reminds me of shitty Windows 8 laptops back in the day. I don’t want to touch the screen—it has a keyboard and a trackpad.
That screenshot legit looks like the screen is broken to hell
Ooh greasy screens and gorilla arms!
What a joke
An iPadBook, huh? Its a bold move, Cotton…
I had a work laptop with a touchscreen and used that functionality exactly 0 times (after trying it out). If it had the ability to fold back into a Lenovo Yoga-style tablet form factor, it would have been a completely different story, though.
No, no. You don’t two in one with apple. You get one, and you will be thankful.
I definitely am a fan of NOT having a touchscreen. It was one of the pluses of the Macs, IMHO. When my parents or kids accidentally tap the screen pointing something on their touchscreen ThinkPad, it tends to screw things up and cause me to have to fix things for them.
I am also really worried they’re going to start making things “touch friendly” now… And we’re going to end up with the MacOS equivalent of Windows 8.
Make a 10" MacPad Pro that runs full desktop OS docked and properly runs iPad apps when in tablet mode and I’m in.
Does anyone have a layer I can apply to my screen that gives an electric shock to anyone that tries to smudge up my screen?
My wife had a Samsung laptop with a touch screen like 10 years ago. Big woop.
And the MS Surface Laptops
Yeah Samsung has never copied anything.
That’s beside the point. The point is that it took Apple that fucking long to implement it, and Apple users will start acting as if it’s something new, even though it’s absolutely not.
Honestly, most Apple users I know are well aware of touch screen laptops, and don’t want one 😅
Lighter is helpful. The bigger screen models are great until you slip it in a bag and it morphs into lead.
Lit Apple logo is back to basics.
Touch screen - I guess enough degrees of separation between this team and Steve Jobs; I heard he was the reason it never happened. I have a touch laptop for work and never use it. It just gets manky with fingerprints. I’m sorta moderate on the greasy fingers scale, but I’ve see what happens if the user is a hand lotion type of person. Eww
I’m the same. Never use the touchscreen on my laptop. Much easier to use the trackpad, especially on macs where it is so well implemented.
Seems like Apple is hitting its downfall era.
Hell, I remember my colleague’s non-touch CRT monitor that was just caked with grease from him touching it over the years to “point” out things to other people. Also, it was set for 59.9 Hz refresh and flickered insanely (until I changed it to 85Hz when they weren’t looking, and they noticed it didn’t look so “strange” anymore).
When Apple was teasing the iPad back in 2009 I was REALLY hoping that they were going to announce a MacBook with a touchscreen. I had the black MacBook from 2007 and was ready to replace it for a touchscreen MacBook… but, they announced the iPad instead. I still have my 2007 MacBook, and it still works pretty well… I don’t think I’ll be replacing it at this point.
The glowing Apple logo is the true upgrade! And touchscreen? That will be interesting to see how it works on macOS
It’s like a MacBook but like an iPad! Apple innovation!
Can you fold it back all the way and have a tablet? That would be pretty cool. A MacBook Pro powered iPad.
At my work all the laptops are touchscreen.
The majority of users dont know this. With a few rare exception those that do know still never use it.
Its was sometimes used by IT for doing certain bulk procedure on multiple laptops at once. This procedure is rarely required anymore since a year ago.
Who is this for, honestly? They can’t innovate so they just shove panels where they haven’t been before.
For those of us that want fucking macos on our iPads but they refuse.
Maybe they will release it now.
Next up: an iPad with a keyboard and macOS!
