#MAC TOUCH SCREEN NOTEBOOK ANDROID#

The sleek design of the machine, means that the screen comes in very slight contact with the keys when closed, such that you see outlines of the keys on the screen over time. Sorry, but as the user I keep mine and everybody else’s fingers well away form the screen. My expectations run towards technical work, I could maybe see them working well for writing up blog posts or emails. Those rely too much on touch for my tastes, and the keyboard just made me keenly aware of how poorly my expectations were being met. And my experience with my wife’s iPad-with-Bluetooth clamshell wasn’t much better. I tried using it for about 15 minutes before I returned it to facilities, it frustrated me so much.

#MAC TOUCH SCREEN NOTEBOOK ANDROID#

Now, the Pixel C, an Android tablet with a keyboard add-on, pissed me right off. I’d say I use the touch screen maybe 1/4 as often as the trackpad, and I’d be willing to pay an extra $100 or so for the feature. But they’re quite nice for moving a map around, or scrolling, and _sometimes_ for pushing buttons. Touchscreens suck for positioning your cursor, for instance. I find that there are touchscreen things, and there are trackpad things. I’m still a bit bemused by the entire thing, because I was very anti-touchscreen. When I left Google, I got a touchscreen Chromebook for myself (an Asus, Pixels are too spendy for me!), because I really do value it. Within a year of starting to use the touchscreen, I was surprised to realize how often I was touching my MacBook Pro’s screen, and even sometimes my desktop screen, before sheepishly realizing that it wasn’t going to work. I used it as a plain-old laptop for like a year before using any of the touchscreen functionality.

When I worked on Chrome team, we got first-edition Pixels.

Mac touch screen notebook