“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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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