#Mac touch screen desktop mac#
But the inclusion of the M1 in the iPad Air, a tweener of a device that was always more expensive than the most basic iPad and less powerful than the most souped-up iPad, means yet another Apple tab has been elevated to “PC” status.Īpple’s custom silicon, then, is where the merging of the iPad and the Mac has so far been the most seamless. The M1 might already be aging by Apple’s speedy standards, seeing how the company is already putting M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips into its high-end hardware.
#Mac touch screen desktop upgrade#
The most significant upgrade to the iPad Air is its M1 chip, the same Apple-made processor that’s in the 2020 MacBook Air, the 2020 MacBook Pro, the 2021 iMac, and the 2021 iPad Pro. A few of its features have been updated to keep with the times: 5G connectivity, an ultrawide camera, an upgraded USB-C port.īut the upgraded silicon at its heart is what makes it more Mac-like. We'll get to that.) Apple's new device is the 2022 iPad Air, the fifth generation of this product line. But it did show off a tablet that feels a lot like a computer. To be clear, Apple didn’t show off a MacBook during Tuesday’s virtual product launch event. But next week, Apple will begin shipping a device that closely resembles a MacBook with a touchscreen. However, I believe that Apple, like any reasonably intelligent entity, tends to learn from its mistakes (sometimes it takes them a while to learn, but we won’t go into that now), and I would seriously bet real American dollars, twenty of them, that the Jobs Crew, as long as Steve Jobs is at the helm, would never make a touch screen desktop computer.Will Apple ever ship a MacBook laptop with a touchscreen? Most likely not. The hockey puck mouse is a classic example. Now, Apple has done some silly things before for the sake of cool design. That's fine for HP and Dell, but not for Apple. Similarly, a touch screen interface on an iMac would be gimmicky, serve no useful purpose, and it wouldn't improve anything. Think of it as your iPhone’s screen times ten, with far less convenience. Even if your keyboard and mouse is within arm’s reach of the screen you’ll likely use either the touch screen or the keyboard/mouse, not both.Īnd, of course, touching the screen means smudges that you’d have to clean. See, to touch the screen you have to be close enough to it, which negates the reason to have wireless input, and if you have wireless input then you’ll likely be more than arm’s length away from the screen, making touching it a bit of a chore. Which leads one to wonder why HP and Dell would design a touch screen computer with a wireless keyboard and mouse in the first place. If touching your screen is cool then is only cool for a few minutes, then it’s back to the keyboard and mouse. In fact, if you read through the reviews of HP’s TouchSmart 300z you’ll find that the touch feature is hardly mentioned, and when it is, it’s done so as an afterthought. How about the cool-factor? It’s cool to touch the screen and get stuff done, right?īoth HP and Dell have touch screen all-in-ones and if they are selling it’s because of other features, not the touch screen. Why would you want to tap in letters and numbers on a screen with two fingers when you can touch type it in on a perfectly good wireless keyboard that is designed for that purpose? And we still gotta deal with the smudge issue. Well, you could use a virtual keyboard and tap info in. Besides, the screens in Minority Report were never touched. Yes, it works on the iPhone, but those are a subset of gestures designed for specific purposes and for fingertips.
Ok, you can do those cool Minority Report gestures.Įxcept that the screen is only 22” and gestures really don’t work that well on such a small screen. No, wait, you can do that far more easily with a keyboard or mouse, and you wouldn’t be smudging up the screen with your fried chicken/mustard/mayonnaise/gravy covered digits. You know, it’s an iMac, but you make the screen so that you can touch it to do stuff on it.
OK, here’s an idea, make a 22” touch screen iMac.
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