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>Touch device implies it's screen is small enough to hold in one hand That's a very mistaken assumption for Windows 8 devices. There are going to be a lot of f
by cooldeal 14y ago
>Touch device implies it's screen is small enough to hold in one hand
That's a very mistaken assumption for Windows 8 devices. There are going to be a lot of form factors with touch which are not small.
Eg. IdeaPad Yoga.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SHKFYngqOM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SHKFYngqOM
Acer All in One http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/03/acer-announces-windows-8-all-in-one-u-series-at-computex-2012/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/03/acer-announces-windows-8-...
Even an 80 inch computer. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/25/microsoft-sell-80-inch-windows-8-tablet/ http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/25/microsoft-sell-80-in...
- ori_b 14y agoAnything that size will give me arm fatigue using the touch in any meaningful way. For occasional interaction, it's fine, but standing in front of it all day, the touch will mostly get ignored.
- jpxxx 14y agoAfter wrangling with some HP TouchSmarts, I agree. The hitboxes suck, the on-screen keyboard is fatiguing after a few sentences, and playing a game with touch only sounds like work. Eventually you forget that your PC has a touchscreen. Even when you do remember that you can just jab something with your finger, your internal context-switching brain-lobe-thing tells you to not bother because the next few micro-tasks will involve the keyboard and mouse anyway.
- stcredzero 14y agoBasically, to get the benefit of touch, you have to make it the physical desktop.
- jpxxx 14y agoI think so. Maybe it all works well on wall-sized touchscreens where you're standing up, but it does not work with vertical glass sitting down.