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I really wish Apple would let me have a touchscreen MacBook at least as an upgrade option. I don't care at all about a touchscreen macOS, I just want to be abl

I really wish Apple would let me have a touchscreen MacBook at least as an upgrade option. I don't care at all about a touchscreen macOS, I just want to be able to run the iOS Simulator on the laptop when I'm travelling and have touch like I would on an actual phone.

YetAnotherNick 5y ago
Couldn't you use screen mirroring on iPad for solving that(Haven't used that personally)
- headmelted 5y ago
  I could, but then I might as well just use the phone. It's the portability of being able to do it directly on the laptop that I'm wanting.
  - rootsudo 5y ago
    But, a phone is portable, already?
    - headmelted 5y ago
      It is, but having to hook up the phone to a stand and connect it to my MacBook and lay all that out in a confined space / coffee shop / etc is not.
    - xboxnolifes 5y ago
      Not when it's the laptop and the phone.
PostThisTooFast 5y ago
They're not going to ramp up a production-line option and do the QA on an ill-advised touchscreen computer for your edge case. And people who prefer computers should be very, very happy about that; because touchscreens on computers are stupid.
- ivraatiems 5y ago
  Why so hostile? Lots of people like having touchscreens on their laptops, myself included. What's wrong with it if people want it?
jcrawfordor 5y ago
Yeah, I'm really surprised they haven't. I'm not a huge touchscreen on laptop user but they've become so ubiquitous on non-apple laptops that I regularly poke the screen on my MacBook. It's not like a touchscreen is great ergonomics on a conventional laptop but there are certain situations and applications where it's just convenient to have the option. And it's low cost these days, so it makes perfect sense to me for manufacturers to throw them in so you have the choice of a really easy, fast interaction when you're flipping pages or pausing videos. What I really miss are pen digitizers which had been the basic minimum on convertible tablets for a long time in the '90s, but then everyone got rid of them. Only now they're slowly creeping back but mostly only on very high end tablets, although a few manufacturers like Lenovo have put them back on convertible laptops.

YetAnotherNick 5y ago

Couldn't you use screen mirroring on iPad for solving that(Haven't used that personally)

headmelted 5y ago
I could, but then I might as well just use the phone. It's the portability of being able to do it directly on the laptop that I'm wanting.
- rootsudo 5y ago
  But, a phone is portable, already?
  - headmelted 5y ago
    It is, but having to hook up the phone to a stand and connect it to my MacBook and lay all that out in a confined space / coffee shop / etc is not.
  - xboxnolifes 5y ago
    Not when it's the laptop and the phone.

PostThisTooFast 5y ago

They're not going to ramp up a production-line option and do the QA on an ill-advised touchscreen computer for your edge case. And people who prefer computers should be very, very happy about that; because touchscreens on computers are stupid.

ivraatiems 5y ago
Why so hostile? Lots of people like having touchscreens on their laptops, myself included. What's wrong with it if people want it?

jcrawfordor 5y ago

Yeah, I'm really surprised they haven't. I'm not a huge touchscreen on laptop user but they've become so ubiquitous on non-apple laptops that I regularly poke the screen on my MacBook. It's not like a touchscreen is great ergonomics on a conventional laptop but there are certain situations and applications where it's just convenient to have the option. And it's low cost these days, so it makes perfect sense to me for manufacturers to throw them in so you have the choice of a really easy, fast interaction when you're flipping pages or pausing videos. What I really miss are pen digitizers which had been the basic minimum on convertible tablets for a long time in the '90s, but then everyone got rid of them. Only now they're slowly creeping back but mostly only on very high end tablets, although a few manufacturers like Lenovo have put them back on convertible laptops.