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I can walk into my local Best Buy and find an entire section of computers that are prominently featured that don't feature touchscreens. http://www.bestbuy.com

I can walk into my local Best Buy and find an entire section of computers that are prominently featured that don't feature touchscreens. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/laptop-computers/macbooks/pcmcat247400050001.c?id=pcmcat247400050001 http://www.bestbuy.com/site/laptop-computers/macbooks/pcmcat... Traditional PCs are coming with touchscreens because Microsoft insisted on shoehorning touch into their desktop interface. This is not a case of Microsoft being in danger of being left behind, but a repeat of the disaster of XP tablet edition - Microsoft completely failing to understand where touch is and is not appropriate in UI design.

visualR 13y ago
At least tablet PC was its own edition, not something forced on everyone.
gtirloni 13y ago
Macs are hardly the recipients of Windows installations. I fail to see your point. Does your local Best Buy store have a non-Mac area? I think you'll have a hard time finding a late generation laptop there that doesn't include touch.. at least the ones aimed at regular consumers (not business people looking for mate screens, or gamers looking for alienware-like stuff). It's funny if you stay a bit in these areas and notice people immediately touching the screens. I've seen it quite a few times and the comments are all "hmm, no touch". The whole PC industry is creating this demand for touch out of users' familiarity with them in their mobile phones. I have no use for touch on my laptop but a lot of people I know think it's cool...
- commandar 13y ago
  >Macs are hardly the recipients of Windows installations. Um, duh. > I fail to see your point. Does your local Best Buy store have a non-Mac area? I think you'll have a hard time finding a late generation laptop there that doesn't include touch.. The point is that you're conflating supply of Windows-based touch desktops and laptops for actual demand for those systems. > I have no use for touch on my laptop but a lot of people I know think it's cool... And as somebody that deals with end users, I've yet to talk to anyone that didn't ultimately find touch in a laptop/desktop either pointless or outright counterproductive. It's one of those things that people think is a cool idea until they actually use one for an extended period of time.

visualR 13y ago

At least tablet PC was its own edition, not something forced on everyone.

gtirloni 13y ago

Macs are hardly the recipients of Windows installations. I fail to see your point. Does your local Best Buy store have a non-Mac area? I think you'll have a hard time finding a late generation laptop there that doesn't include touch.. at least the ones aimed at regular consumers (not business people looking for mate screens, or gamers looking for alienware-like stuff). It's funny if you stay a bit in these areas and notice people immediately touching the screens. I've seen it quite a few times and the comments are all "hmm, no touch". The whole PC industry is creating this demand for touch out of users' familiarity with them in their mobile phones. I have no use for touch on my laptop but a lot of people I know think it's cool...

commandar 13y ago
>Macs are hardly the recipients of Windows installations. Um, duh. > I fail to see your point. Does your local Best Buy store have a non-Mac area? I think you'll have a hard time finding a late generation laptop there that doesn't include touch.. The point is that you're conflating supply of Windows-based touch desktops and laptops for actual demand for those systems. > I have no use for touch on my laptop but a lot of people I know think it's cool... And as somebody that deals with end users, I've yet to talk to anyone that didn't ultimately find touch in a laptop/desktop either pointless or outright counterproductive. It's one of those things that people think is a cool idea until they actually use one for an extended period of time.