HP tried touch screens decades ago (in the '80s). Finger prints were a major problem - and I don't believe that problem has gone away. It is one thing to wipe a phone or tablet on you sleeve vs cleaning a large monitor. Paul Looney
On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Bob, > Is your judgement because you have sat down with a Windows 8 touch screen > computer for an hour? I'm curious because I'm very interested in buying a > small Window 8 laptop (11" screen). I've only played on it for perhaps 10 > minutes in the store but I didn't really notice any problems using the > touchscreen side of things. I found myself much preferring to touch the > screen than use the mousepad. Then again, I was mostly in a web browser > not a real desktop app. > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Robert Sneidar <slylab...@me.com> wrote: > >> I'm going to venture an educated guess. From all I have heard, Win8 is >> really optimized for touch interfaces. While you CAN use it on a desktop >> system, there do not seem to be any compelling reasons for doing so, over >> Win7. Steve Jobs had it right. Use a touch based OS on a desktop for just >> an hour, and you will see why point and click is the way to go on these >> systems. >> >> Desktop apps that need lots of screen real estate or need a lot of >> processing power flourish on large monitor point and click systems, but >> flounder on touch interfaces. Not all apps need the screen real estate or >> use a lot of resources. These do well on tablet touch systems. I do not >> think tablet/touch OSes are replacing desktop systems. I think that the >> process is more like a re-calibration of the equilibrium between what most >> people have needed all along, a simple tablet touch OS, and professional >> systems that need the power and screen real estate to function well. >> >> Just my 2ยข >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Jan 8, 2013, at 7:38 AM, Mark Stuart wrote: >> >>> Wow! >>> I guess no one is using Windows 8. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Regards, >>> Mark Stuart >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
