Note to manufacturer. Make one for the 12"!!!!

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AFCdtLoeb wrote:
Note to manufacturer. Make one for the 12"!!!!

From their web site:

WATCH FOR : PowerBook 12 and 15 inch, iBook 12 and 14 inch and PC models. COMING SOON !!

So you're in luck!

I didn't see prices on their page, so I don't know how much these things cost to make, but I'm making an official prediction that the next iMac may offer something like this built in.

I mean, where else can Apple go? The've put the entire computer into the monitor, that have to do SOMETHING to make the next iMac seem crazy-cool. I predict that this will be what they pick, as long as it's not too costly.

Think about it, the smallest iMac is now 17". Add to the large screen size the fact that the Mac OS is full of large, bubbley buttons just PERFECT for pushing with fingers, and I'd say a tough-screen iMac would be VERY usable!

Look at iMovie...iDVD...is there anything in there you couldn't do with a finger? The iLife programs look like they're ALREADY designed for touch screen! You know what they'd need, though? The OS would have to be changed a bit. Having your finger be the "mouse" wouldn't work. I'd like to see a re-design where the mouse is the cursor and that's its own thing. It DOESN'T move when you touch the screen. In my vision, you could touch a touch screen in TWO places at once and move stuff around WITHOUT the cursor moviing.

So, for example, you could be dragging a movie clip into the timline in iMovie, while at the SAME TIME you're hitting "next track" in iTunes with your other finger, and all the while the curser doesn't move, so when you grab the mouse the cursor is right where you left it.

Or you could be moving a folder with one finger while you are opening the system prefrences with the other. The current OS wouldn't allow this no matter how many input devices you plugged in! It would be a MAJOR change, but a really useful one, I think.

Maybe I'm dreaming wildly, but I don't think this idea is too far-fetched.

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Small White Car wrote:

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AFCdtLoeb wrote:
Note to manufacturer. Make one for the 12"!!!!

From their web site:

WATCH FOR : PowerBook 12 and 15 inch, iBook 12 and 14 inch and PC models. COMING SOON !!

So you're in luck!

I didn't see prices on their page, so I don't know how much these things cost to make, but I'm making an official prediction that the next iMac may offer something like this built in.

I mean, where else can Apple go? The've put the entire computer into the monitor, that have to do SOMETHING to make the next iMac seem crazy-cool. I predict that this will be what they pick, as long as it's not too costly.

Think about it, the smallest iMac is now 17". Add to the large screen size the fact that the Mac OS is full of large, bubbley buttons just PERFECT for pushing with fingers, and I'd say a tough-screen iMac would be VERY usable!

Look at iMovie...iDVD...is there anything in there you couldn't do with a finger? The iLife programs look like they're ALREADY designed for touch screen! You know what they'd need, though? The OS would have to be changed a bit. Having your finger be the "mouse" wouldn't work. I'd like to see a re-design where the mouse is the cursor and that's its own thing. It DOESN'T move when you touch the screen. In my vision, you could touch a touch screen in TWO places at once and move stuff around WITHOUT the cursor moviing.

So, for example, you could be dragging a movie clip into the timline in iMovie, while at the SAME TIME you're hitting "next track" in iTunes with your other finger, and all the while the curser doesn't move, so when you grab the mouse the cursor is right where you left it.

Or you could be moving a folder with one finger while you are opening the system prefrences with the other. The current OS wouldn't allow this no matter how many input devices you plugged in! It would be a MAJOR change, but a really useful one, I think.

Maybe I'm dreaming wildly, but I don't think this idea is too far-fetched.

The only thing that they may have a problem with is the LCD screen. You can't really touch those too hard without cracking the display. That could be real bad. Who knows what Apple might do next. I read an article on TMO earlier that showed a patent I believe for a lighting system that would light up the entire box when a particular event happened. Pretty darn cool if they could make your monitor flash red when an iCal event occured!

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The only thing that they may have a problem with is the LCD screen. You can't really touch those too hard without cracking the display. That could be real bad.

This 3rd party product is something that fits over the LCD screen. I imagine something like that being built into the iMac so that it looks the same to you, but the LCD screen is behind the "touch screen."

Of course, if this interferes with seeing video games at their best it might end up being more like this product...removable. I really don't know enough about the technology, but it would be great if they could build it into the computer in such a way that it didn't look any different than current LCD screens.

A good form factor touch screen Mac for watching video on long car trips?

With optional mounting accessories!

Steve's children need that to watch Finding Nemo.

"Who made Finding Nemo? Thats a pretty neat movie..."