alt Hacker NewsThat looks like a crappy way to work. Holding your arms out in front of you all day sucks.
The baffling thing is that Apple hasn't made the Pencil work on its laptops' (defectively) oversized touchpads: https://imgur.com/gallery/another-baffling-missed-opportunit...
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Pretty much every school in the US has students using touchscreen Chromebooks. It's funnyish when a young person tries to touch my MacBook screen to do a quick action, and I have to tell them that it's necessary to go to the touchpad, diddle a little to find the cursor, then do a move action to get to get to the target. Dragging is even more puzzling, touch and drag on a screen vs. move, double-tap or ctrl-click, then drag, then tap to release. I'm sure some will help me with faster touchpad methods, but that aside, I've used Mac laptops for 30+ years, and generally feel that those who perceive touchscreens as a gorilla-arm problem just haven't used a touchscreen laptop. They provide a much more efficient interface for some common actions. Touchscreens are so common now that most Windows and Chrome devices have them as the norm. Always strikes me as a bit strange that Apple-priced Mac laptops lack a feature found in low-price competitors.
I wish there were a way to disable the touchscreen built into my thinkpad, which I never use - except occasionally by accident, when my sleeve brushes it or the like. Why would I want fingerprints on my monitor? Of course I'm not going to touch it.
My significant other uses her touchscreen laptop as a consumption device (for video and prose; a lot of fanfictions!) in the bed (a beefy tablet with a built-in stand resting on her belly, if you will). In that context she's very happy with a touchscreen and is a factor when buying a new laptop (fortunately that Thinkpad X1 Yoga from 2017 is still going strong).
I'm not saying this product is good, it's looks interesting but in reality will suck (due to not being able to just close the laptop) but I found when I used to use a windows laptop the touch screen was great.
You just naturally get used to using it for reading documents/email/slack when you are using the laptop portable.
It's specially good when you are on a couch/shit surface where you would normally use the touch pad awkwardly, it's also great when you are "one hand" holding the laptop and then scrolling/showing someone something. I found it also great in the small ass meeting rooms for zoom calls.
I wish the MacBook had it.