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Any Apple touch display similar to "Microsoft Surface"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Levi" data-source="post: 494690" data-attributes="member: 33973"><p>I think touch screen interfaces have their place as information kiosks, or small "tablet" form factors (iPhone, iPod, PDA, DS), but not as a multimedia-PCs. We figured out years ago that we like to consume our media from a screen placed vertically, and a few feet away. Having your TV touch sensitive would be pretty pointless, because you wouldn't want to have to walk up to it to interact with it. Similarly with "Surface", you don't want to have to look down at your media.</p><p></p><p>As cool as surface is, I, just like most other people use my computer for: creating and displaying digital media (video, graphics, games, music), writing e-mail and browsing the web. I can't imagine being comfortable doing that when the screen is below me. I'm not sure what it could be used for... you can't give a presentation on it because everyone has to crowd round the thing, and you can't really do any work on it because of form factor. It's just a conversation piece really.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levi, post: 494690, member: 33973"] I think touch screen interfaces have their place as information kiosks, or small "tablet" form factors (iPhone, iPod, PDA, DS), but not as a multimedia-PCs. We figured out years ago that we like to consume our media from a screen placed vertically, and a few feet away. Having your TV touch sensitive would be pretty pointless, because you wouldn't want to have to walk up to it to interact with it. Similarly with "Surface", you don't want to have to look down at your media. As cool as surface is, I, just like most other people use my computer for: creating and displaying digital media (video, graphics, games, music), writing e-mail and browsing the web. I can't imagine being comfortable doing that when the screen is below me. I'm not sure what it could be used for... you can't give a presentation on it because everyone has to crowd round the thing, and you can't really do any work on it because of form factor. It's just a conversation piece really. [/QUOTE]
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