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Deja Vu or A Slice of Apple

HP is offering a touch screen PC. Hmmm... Looks familiar. But I'm not sure what works in a pocket sized hand-held will serve as well on a desktop. When I use a PC (at the office), I often pull the keyboard down into my lay so as not to have to lift my hands even as high as the desk. Imagine having to lift your fingers to the screen to interact with your computer.

Pressly
Apple wins hands down ;-D

posted by Pressly

Pressly,

I agree completely. "Sitting comfortably" is one of my (lazy oaf that I am!) requirements for using a desktop to begin with, and I can't fathom having to reach to the screen.

There's also that whole "Surface" thing from Microsoft. Who wants to have to lean over a coffee table in order to open email?

I wonder what would happen if the inevitable "cup a joe" spilled?

At least that tricked out macbook option, ridiculously costly that it is, is still, uhhh, "lap-able"

oops!

Pete

posted by PM1948
3 months ago

I bought a HP 150 Touchscreen back in 1984. Ran a bookkeeping service with it until 1990. I liked the touch screen (even though it was just single point IR grid), especially after I developed screen shortcuts for a lot of the keyboard functions and bookkeeping macros. HP marketed them to businesses with custom interfaces to eliminate the keyboard for cash register and order taking type operations. Oh and touch screen solitaire was fun also....lol

posted by tommy2rs
3 months ago

Take a look at MidiTzer, a free program that emulates a theatre pipe organ, at view link . It uses a touch screen to select the stops. Unfortunately it only runs on Windows. There is also jOrgan at view link which runs on any Java capable machine. It can use a touch screen also.

Mickey

posted by MickeyE
3 months ago

@Mickey,

WOW! that is some link to that youtube demo!

I remember about 25 years ago there was a late Sunday radio program called "PipeDreams" .

Shook the house with those D fundamentals!

Thanks for letting me know about the site. Now all we have to do is get enough people to coerce them to make a mac version!

Pete

posted by PM1948
3 months ago

Imagine trying to edit photos or video on a screen covered in fingerprints. Or imagine trying to use a 30" cinema display sitting 2 1/2 to 3 feet away. Would you get great abs and shoulders before you got carpal tunnel? They might be good for certain types of computing but not for general computing.