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by WalterBright
4957 days ago
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I've played with a mac laptop in the Apple store. The problem with the touchpad is suppose I want to scroll. I have to carefully position the mouse over the scroll bar. Then click, or click and drag, whatever, which is just freaking awkward with a touchpad. (It's no issue with a mouse.) Yeah, I know that the right side of some touch pads acts as a scroll bar. But that depends on the right window being the "top" and I often get that behavior mixed up with the other regions of the touchpad. I also have problems with accidentally brushing my palm over the touch pad and "what the hell just happened". With a touch screen, this all becomes natural and trivial. I know, I see people using touchpads all the time like it was an extension of their hand, and they have no issues with it. But I do. I like that touchscreen for my laptop. It is transformative. No other word for it. As for a desktop with a big display, I don't need a touchscreen except for one case - where you are working with someone and are both hovering over the screen. The touchscreen is real handy for that rather than passing the mouse back and forth. |
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Not on OS X
>I also have problems with accidentally brushing my palm over the touch pad and "what the hell just happened".
Palm brushes don't register on OS X
That's why I wanted more clarification on what you're comparing it to. The only positive I can see of a touch screen compared to a __good__ touchpad is that you can see the content below your fingers as you interact with it - I wager it's the difference between the Intuos and the Cintiq.
I don't know if that's a big enough difference for most people to have to deal with all the negatives that using a touchscreen on a computer monitor comes with. For me it's not.