[saturdaysaint]

Kudos to this guy for trying out a lot of new gear, but these things are a lot more puzzling through the eyes of an average consumer. I was at Best Buy this weekend and the shiny new "Windows 8" section, complete with a handful of touch laptops, was a ghost town. Even spending a few minutes reading this article doesn't really sell me on why I should want to touch a laptop - if it's not immediately obvious to consumers, they're just going to walk by to the tablet tables.

Touch is great because it enables extremely mobile computing devices - anything built without that in mind might as well not have touch. The Yoga is within eyeshot of dozens of comparatively razor-thin tablets at Best Buy, so even attempting to pitch it as a "PC plus a tablet!" seems like a stretch when you've just palmed an iPad mini. This stuff is kind of cool, but I don't think it's going to make anyone I know upgrade their PC any quicker, which is the measure of MS's success.

[untog]

I don't think that a touch laptop is puzzling in the eyes of the average consumer- in fact, they're a pretty simple concept. I was in Best Buy over the weekend and saw a good number of people playing around with the display Lenovo Yoga. The only downside was that the hinge on it was broken- not the best advertisement, but I don't judge it too much (display devices take a hell of a beating)- if anything it just shows that a good number of people were using it.