![]() ![]() There was also a device called the AirBar that could connect via USB and add a type of touch sensitivity to Mac screens. Called the Axiotron ModBook, it didn't last long. Back in 2008, I reviewed a MacBook that was taken apart and reassembled into a touchscreen tablet. But as an experiment, it's safe to write that off as a failure, and it might even be an extra incentive for Apple to stay further away from touchscreens.Īnd don't think people haven't tried to shoehorn touch into Macs. The now-nearly-dead Touch Bar, originally found on several MacBook Pro laptops, but now only on that last lonely 13-inch MacBook Pro, is technically a touchscreen, even if it's only 60 pixels high. As always, there is an asterisk to the no-touch MacBook rule. Frankly, most of the time when I use touch on a Windows laptop, it's because I'm running into a situation where the default touchpad navigation isn't as good as it should be.Īpple has already tried it, with the Touch Bar. Because most Windows laptops have an OS made by Microsoft, chips made by Intel or AMD and hardware made by a wide range of other manufacturers, those PCs lack the overall cohesion you get from Apple's in-house hardware/software/chip combo. If anything, the pendulum is swinging more toward adding Mac features to iPads than the other way around. Recent OS changes make iPadOS a little more Mac-like and MacOS a little more iPad-like, but there's still a lot of daylight between them. Apple wants you to feel like you should buy a MacBook and an iPad to get the full Apple experience.
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