“The Commercial Times reported that Taiwan-based Sintek Photronic would supply the screens and Quanta would make the hardware,” The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal reports.
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I guess if you can build it, you build it. It is like climbing the highest mountain. Not sure I will need a lot of those at that size.
Not sure Steve would see a need for it either. So, it is most likely just a rumor.
This seems doubtful unless it’s a special purpose system. MDN’s take on Gorilla Arm seems useful to invoke here… The screen could be the size of a wall but your arms would get tired…unless you were an orchestra leader.
even then.
At this time, I have no interest in a touchscreen iMac or any other either touch screen computer.
For something with finger prints all over it, must lift my arms just to control the computer, and it would work for commercial purpose in a store- not in my house!
I will leave it open for some compelling application of the technology, not now though.
Not for me, but if launched I have to support it.
Ditto PR’s comment – I don’t believe this rumor.
MW: hospital – you’d need one, after the horrific case of Gorilla Arm you’d develop from using this!
In its current form, iMac would be practically useless with the touch screen, and neither Jobs, nor Ive would be caught dead pimping it.
Touchscreen interface is clearly by far the most intuitive user interface for a computing device, when DONE RIGHT (see iPhone). In order to be done right, that new iMac would have to be lying flat on the surface of the desk (or tilted slightly upwards towards the user), and the interface would need to allow the user to rest hands/arms on the surface, being able to reliably tell the difference between finger tip touch and palm/wrist/arm.
If anyone can do this, Apple can. And when they do it, it will turn computing industry upside down, exactly the way iPhone did for mobile industry.
Ditto all the others’ dittos.
CELEBRATE THE GORILLA ARM SYNDROME!!!!
(Celebrate using all caps and gratuitous exclamation points as well)
Will that be glossy fingerprints or non-glossy fingerprints all over your computer screen?
I too would not purchase this computer. I think Apple is on the right track with their multi-gesture track pad.
Peace.
The only thing I’d want a touch capability for would be porn.
Yep, pinch and tickle multi-touch, that’s what I’m talkin’ about!
Another rumor with a business motivation/company trying to get attention.
It’s been covered here many many times in the past. Touching the monitor is not the most efficient way of interacting with a large screen computer. Touching an ancillary device, which can lay on the desk and doesn’t make the screen unusable after ten minutes, makes more sense.
Apple doesn’t release products so they can put a check mark on their market segment reports like most pc cloners.
Unlikely, for several reasons.
First, desktop computers are not good for touchscreen applications, because of ergonomic reasons.
Second, capacitive touch screen technology (that used in iPhones) doesn’t scale up to 22” displays. Who would want bad touchscreens?
@Predrag
I fully agree with you. The current form of the iMac does not make this one convenient.
However, Apple could launch an all-in-one computer for a specific usage (artists, djs, etc).
@All others,
Don’t coun’t this rumor out too fast. Apple always thinks beyond the current paradigm.
I’m getting big magnifying spectacles to look at my 10” tablet to save the extra expense.
Yeah what NCG598 said! No fingerprints allowed!
I would like a touch version of the current 24″ monitor that I can plug into my MBP or an iPhone for movies/better-speakers or the potential tablet for even larger touch editing/keyboard.
If the hinge swung back further and could lock at certain points that would be tops. I wouldn’t want to drag a 24″ tablet around!
You heard it here first: An iMac with a vertically-oriented touch screen would be a huge ergonomic disaster. Physical therapists from here to China would be able to retire in style.
Maybe a 22″ Dull. It takes enough time to clean a touch, let alone something that large.
Makes sense.
If you build a 21.5 inch iMac, why not just shoot for a clean 22″ inches instead right.
I don’t know about the touch screen capabilities though. Maybe it’l catch on. I’m sure Apple will do a much better job than HP.
Following HP Touchsmart AIO I see.
http://www.bing.com When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide
I cannot see much value in a touch screen computer on my desk. However, I’m seeing more and more touch screen machines in public places – airports, hotel reception, museums etc. Maybe a bit of a niche market, but possibly an interesting way to put the Apple logo in front of a big public audience?
A vertical touchscreen like the HP Touchsmart mentioned above doesn’t make sense to me because of the ergonomic challenge.
Maybe if a touchscreen was tilted up just above horizontal? But then it seems like it would compete somewhat with the so-far mythical Tablet.
Perhaps we’ll find out more on Jan. 27.
I don’t think it will be a high volume product, buy I do believe they need a touchscreen option. With the macs being so multimedia friendly, it would be a great thing to have for tradeshow booths, interactive kiosks, etc.
Gorilla Arm aside, why the hell would I want to have smudgemarks on my screen? Accidental/incedental ones are bad enough, let alone deliberate ones. And what about if you have pizza fingers? What a stupid idea. Anyway a mouse or trackpad gives me so more mechanical advantage then using my arm and hand to move crap around the screen. Being able to do both: mouse, trackpad and touch screen still doesn’t help. Big touch screens is microsh*t’s forte. It surely is too stupid for apple to consider.
Unless it is a special model designed to display the screen almost horizontally (like a freaking Star Trek Navigation/Tactical computer that stands on the frontmost part of the bridge)…
NOT
GOING
TO HAPPEN
surprised mdn didn’t make any gorilla arm comments.
i guess if apple makes it so then it must be fine.
I seriously am offend by the implication that there is something wrong with gorilla arms! I am a gorilla and no-one has ever made nary a single negative comment about my arms.
“I cannot see much value in a touch screen computer on my desk. However, I’m seeing more and more touch screen machines in public places – airports, hotel reception, museums etc. Maybe a bit of a niche market, but possibly an interesting way to put the Apple logo in front of a big public audience?”
On the other hand, it would be not much of a stretch in OS technology from where Apple is now to enter the kiosk sales market. Yes, it could put Apple in front of the public to a greater degree than now.
One more thing: It would work better.
Tthe greatest sales feature in the world!
If I were inside Apple, I would be looking at it for that reason.
@ Offended Gorilla,
Go away Ballmer.
@Sir Gill Bates
Oh Boy! Now ya really got me steamed ! I know Steve Ballmer, and I sir, a, NO Steve Ballmer !
@ Offended Gorilla,
Sorry. I apologize to simians everywhere.
@I’m DA PC
Yes, HP leads and Apple follows. We all know HP invented the All-in-One way before Apple came up with it. They are the true innovators here.
GO AWAY ZUNE
http://www.dogpile.com When it comes to decisions that matter, smell the dogpile
None of u sheep seem to have much vision here.
U keep nagging about touch screens not being the replacement for other input devices. Who ever said that was the intention?
The touch screen is an excellent addition to other input methods. And it even is the perfect replacement in some instances: For my one year old daughter, who uses the iPod touch with quite a level of comfort, it would make a much more natural way to interact with the computer. The same applies for my 80+ years old mom.
Using a natural way of interacting with the computer – as opposed to the “look-one-way-and-point-another-way” approach – opens up a lot of great possibilities.
The “I don´t need this kind of computer” statements voiced here are typical for end users with total lack of imagination of where new technologies might take them. The same voices screaming “No, no, don´t take away our floppy disk/CD drive/non glossy screens/mechanical keyboards… I´m an IT professional…”.
I´m looking forward to reading your comments on how great the touch screens are, once you have been told so by Steve.
I know some of you will not change your opinion even then. For you it will take a couple of years until you are brave enough to see the potential of the new inventions, instead of treating them as threats to your position.
That would be unjustifiably-expensive, useless junk. I would have absolutely no use for it in a million years. But since Apple makes it, I’ll buy one.
Only if it touches me.
Throughout the history of this planet, us humans (as well as other animals) have worked with objects by directly interacting with them (pounding, sanding, grating, sawing, cutting, braking, chiseling, writing, drawing…). We always interacted with our work in a tactile way. Then, some forty years ago, someone invented this totally non-sensical and unintuitive method: you click some key on this one device (let’s call it keyboard), something changes on a seemingly totally unrelated device several feet away (the display). Initially, this required constantly shifting sight from one device to the other, in order to confirm that we did what we wanted to do. Later, we learned not to have to look at that keyboard device. Still; extremely unintuitive and awkward. Yet, we all agreed to learn to use it, and generations of people even grew up with this awkward, unintuitive device. As dreadful as keyboard/mouse/display UI is, we had learned to live with it.
We have all seen the simplicity, elegance and intuitiveness of a touch interface with the iPhone. I have no doubt that, if properly adapted for desktop, this interface would significantly improve the way we do our work on computers. And I also have no doubt, tablet will show the way, and Apple will be the one to make the next shift, just as they did from green-screen, keyboard-only UI to (much more intuitive) GUI and a mouse.
The time has come; mankind is ready for the next step.
@ Predrag
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Nice to read thoughts written by someone over 13
You are right; mankind is ready – I only wish the guys on this forum would be ready too…
hi there i want a lighting fast ssd in my touch screen imac for hard core gaming say 64 gb 128 gb 256 gb 512 gb 1 tb 2 tb ssd