{"id":40476,"date":"2014-01-07T18:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/like-a-helicopter-submarine.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T08:15:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:15:57","slug":"like-a-helicopter-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/like-a-helicopter-submarine.html","title":{"rendered":"“Like a helicopter submarine”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, I'm sure there are probably some great applications for a touchscreen laptop. Aside from ones involving the screen popping off and converting into a tablet, which I've always suspected is far cooler in concept than in reality. And let's leave aside the question of the distinct difference in interface between a finger and a mouse.<\/p>\n

I dunno — does anyone have one of these and find it really useful?<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Andreas Schou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heaved myself off my deathbed to price a new laptop for Sara. Why does every manufacturer now think I need a touchscreen on my laptop?<\/p>\n

(1) Laptops are not tablets. You aren't fooling me into thinking I'm buying a tablet just because I can jab at the screen like an orangutan.<\/p>\n

(2) I guess I could treat it as a tablet that's too far from my face and at the wrong height? But except for the subterranean race of humans with eyes for nipples and transparent forearms, this is basically terrible for everybody.<\/p>\n

(3) I could ignore the touchscreen? Oops I just paid $100 for the ability to accidentally click ads with my knuckles whenever I lift my big dumb hamfingers from the keyboard.<\/p>\n

A touchscreen laptop is like a fucking helicopter submarine. Every single feature for one operational mode is a ruinous bug for the other. Either the icons are too big or too small or the display is too close or too far away or you're making accidental inputs because you have the motor skills of a none-too-gifted infant.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, the entire apparent market for laptops: you just talked me out of a sale.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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