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Macbook Pro: "Touch me, master. You know you want to."

Cool 🤷‍♂️?

Their laptops would be far more capable than an ipad

If they clone a Surface Studio I'll totally switch back. Or a convertible similar or better than Surface Book / Studio or just an x360 2-in-1... or a bigger iPad like device with MacOS and that magic keyboard but with function keys row and bigger touchpad...

You could get a Z Fold 4 then.

A truly revolutionary breakthrough

Bro I worked at HP (3rd party vendor) in 2011-2012 and the surface 1-2 was out

Lol, a good one. They'd be like - 'you could touch the screen for years but this year's Macbook Pro reacts to your touch! *Cue some intense graphical animation as if they cured cancer*

And all these reviews mentioning how a new random touchscreen / 2-in-1 laptop is a mac clone.

11+ years

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Main thing I could think of would be for art. I’d certainly consider one but after having a M1 MacBook and getting nothing but frustration from it (drivers don’t work for my admittedly older Wacom, or my mouse, and good luck running anything 32 bit and bye bye bootcamp and VMs I think I’ll pass. I will say I enjoy the touch features on my Steam Deck running Win 11 pro, but that’s mainly because the trackpads are so terrible to use without looking like someone with Parkinson’s. Bizarrely my Wacom and my mouse and Keyboard work fine on Steam Deck with a USB C dongle?

Psst… you can buy a touchscreen laptop and not use the touchscreen. Mind blowing, right?

(And before someone goes “why include a touchscreen then?”, it’s because consumers now have MORE options to interact with their laptop. You can choose to not use it, or you can use it if you think it helps.)

Edit: the sentiments in this thread reminds me of Steve “Who wants a touchscreen phone without a keyboard” Ballmer. Just because prior attempts were lacklustre doesn’t mean Apple can’t pull off a well-executed version, nor does it mean that touchscreen laptops are useless. The sales of iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard proves that touchscreen laptops are useful, as long as the software is designed for touch interaction

So… basically the iPad Pro w/ keyboard that’s been out the past 5 years?? Lol

Can't wait till apple makes this tech breakthrough for the whole world. Touch screens are such amazing science fiction. Please, apple, save me from this typewriter that I am writing this comment with.

To be fair, it's always been possible to touch the screen...

So, they found out about them then?

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My MacBook Pro spends a good 80% of the time plugged into an external monitor, with the lid closed. I assume this is a pretty common usage for them, compared to the smaller or lighter ones.

When the Touch Bar was released people pointed out how it would be a disjointed experience lifting your fingers from the keyboard to press it. A touch screen would be just as bad, in my opinion.

What do power users need with a touchscreen, especially now we’ve just recently got physical function keys back?

I had a touchscreen Windows 8 laptop for 8 years and almost never used the touchscreen. Waste of time.

I was thinking about the Modbook from Axiotron, I was able to find the name using your comment. The clamshell Gemini one seems to be even older, crazy design.

It’s about the size of a g-shock.

Gemini? They used to do that with iBooks and MacBooks later on.