{"id":671500,"date":"2026-11-01T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671500\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:20:17","slug":"weekly-poll-do-touchscreens-on-laptops-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671500\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly poll: do touchscreens on laptops make sense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done tons of user testing on this and it turns out it doesn\u2019t work. Touch surfaces don\u2019t want to be vertical. It gives a great demo, but after a short period of time you start to fatigue and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. It doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s ergonomically terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is what Steve Jobs said about laptops with touchscreens back in 2010 \u2013 it\u2019s hardly a new idea, but sixteen years later Apple announced its first such laptops, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_announces_new_macbook_pro_models_with_oled_and_touchscreen-news-75254.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook Pros with PROLED XDR displays<\/a>. Do you agree with Jobs or do you think that Ternus &amp; co. are right?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s not just Apple \u2013 some Microsoft Surface laptops have touchscreens (to say nothing of the Surface tablets), many Windows on ARM laptops do too (who here remembers the whole Windows 8 mess?) as do many x86 laptops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/10\/weekly-poll-touchscreens-on-laptops\/popup\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_001.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Do touchscreens on laptops make sense?\" width=\"215\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793514016_795_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/10\/weekly-poll-touchscreens-on-laptops\/popup\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_002.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Do touchscreens on laptops make sense?\" width=\"215\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/10\/weekly-poll-touchscreens-on-laptops\/popup\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_003.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Do touchscreens on laptops make sense?\" width=\"215\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/gsmarena_003.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>Do touchscreens on laptops make sense?<\/p>\n<p>John Ternus was appointed Vice President of Hardware Engineering back in 2012 and later oversaw the Intel to Apple silicon transition for Macs. The new MacBooks may have been designed before Ternus took over as CEO from Tim Cook, but his hands are all over the new OLED-based touchscreens \u2013 literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>Was Jobs right \u2013 are touchscreens on laptops \u201cergonomically terrible\u201d? Or maybe they only make sense on laptops with 360\u00b0 hinges (which the MacBooks don\u2019t have) or 2-in-1 convertibles (tablets with keyboard docks), basically laptops that convert into tablet mode \u2013 what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve done tons of user testing on this and it turns out it doesn\u2019t work. 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