Choosing a MBP, idem.įinally, given how often people are replacing their smartphones, I'm not exactly sure if "people cope with their smartphone" in general. Choosing a smartphone is a matter of concessions. So my smartphone does not have a hardware keyboard, but that does not mean I don't prefer that. run SailfishOS your options quickly diminish. Alas, those phones are exceptions, and if you also have other special interests such as long-term support, high uptime on one juice load, or the liberty to e.g. I actually preferred the time with hardware keyboards for example because screen stayed pristine back then, and phones were much more durable. So I tend to read the top and maybe mid of my screen and then scroll further. I don't, but if I mostly type and scroll on the bottom, the fingerprints are mostly on the keyboard part. > Somehow, people cope with their smartphone being covered in fingerprints.
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It doesn't matter much if its 10 minutes or 30 minutes, its an unnecessary waste in both situations. The point is that its on top of the thing it replaced (keyboard). Very excited to see how these work out in the real world I can imagine it quite natural to use a hot corner of the pad itself as a toggle, or perhaps some gesture or similar. The modality (pumping F6 to enable/disable) could definitely be improved upon.
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I think this design, simply by virtue of being optional, and large and rectangular, is hugely more applicable than the touchbar. But moving the monitor window (rendered video preview) to the touchpad area might change that considerably - it amounts to a 25% increase in display area, and in a 'natural application' of video editing, the monitor would be separate anyway. Then there is the blindingly obvious: video editing on a laptop always sucks, there is never enough screen space. Two massive benefits: the tactile response of the keyboard is totally preserved, and the feature can be entirely disabled for conservative users who cannot think of an immediate use for the display.Ĭlearly it will appeal to gadgeteers (as much as I expect the touchbar does) who can use it for instrumentation or other generally distracting applications.
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At first sight the thing is terrifying, but it seems a rather quite reasonable alternative play on the touchbar that does not mess with the ability to sell the device.