Maybe the touchscreen will be where the keyboard is, the next step after the touch bar to provide a software keyboard or whatever else an app wants to put down there for input. It wouldn't surprise me after the trouble they had for years with physical laptop keyboards.
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Apple's Work on Touchscreen Macs: What We Know So Far
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In the Educational sphere the Chromebook is king. The majority of K-12 schools in the USA use Chromebooks. They are touchscreen. The next generation are growing up with everything as touchscreen as normal. Apple obviously know this and realise that if they don't release a computer with a touchscreen in the coming years they could lose sales.
Well, that's my theory anyway.
Well, that's my theory anyway.
can't stand this feature. Not only does it make the screen full of finger prints but every time I have used it I hated it more and more. I am sure someone out there has a use for it and loves it but I would take more RAM/CPU/Storage over this anyway.
Maybe the previous report of OLED iPads costing double the price was referring to this? These MacPads better come with keyboard and trackpad 
But the article say 'mac' and doesn't specify desk or note book. I was assuming both.
My iMac Pro hangs out beyond arms length, so what's the point.
The good thing is that aside from paying for that feature, you don't actually have to use it.
Maybe the previous report of OLED iPads costing double the price was referring to this? These MacPads better come with keyboard and trackpad
Aren't iPads already 'touch screen' equipped?
This.
An iPad running macOS (optimized for touchscreen, obviously) with the option to add a quality keyboard / touchpad. I would love the flexibility to carry a single, separable device.
Exactly.
But there are many people who can only use touch screen (maybe phone is the only other device they are comfortable with). Personally I think that trackpad is perfect. But if can sell more macs then why not?
Just make the iPad Pro able to be docked. Then when docked it uses MacOS and when undocked iPadOS. Best of both worlds and makes more sense to me than making a touchscreen iMac or MacBook. And gives the upper end iPad Pro more purpose than it has today.
In my opinion, touch screen laptops are a gimmick and stupid. They offer no compelling use that a tablet doesn’t do better, and a tablet with a keyboard doesn’t do laptop things better. The worst part would be all the fingerprints on the screen. That would drive me insane.
I don’t get everyone complaining about touch screens as everyone is using a touch screen to reply.
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to quickly tap X or Ok on dialogs instead of scratching away at a track pad
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to quickly tap X or Ok on dialogs instead of scratching away at a track pad
Just get yourself an iPad. I don't want Macbooks to be compromised by another stupid gimmick (e.g. touchbar) for half a decade.
Sometimes it's nice to watch a movie while a take a dump but I don't see toilet makers integrating TVs into the "experience".
In all seriousness, touchscreen laptops have been around for a long time. If it was such a great idea, they would have become ubiquitous long ago, but guess what...
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Depends how you're sitting, where the laptop is, etc. Sometimes it's more comfortable.
Having a touch screen doesn't compromise anything. The touchbar replaced function keys.
Times have changed with all the touch screens in the every facet of our lives, from cars to kiosks. It is just natural to want to touch the screen. I trust Apple to transition the interface with some sense of order.
It wouldn't necessarily have to be like that. That's not how it works on the iPad - the cursor is a separate thing from touching the screen, and interacting with the touch screen doesn't change where the cursor is.
I keep saying I don't understand touchscreens on laptops.
I have a nice little lenovo yoga 6 on the side (nice little machine), but I never use its touch mode.
I think it literally has no benefit over the mouse/trackpad both in precision and usability, and the few times I use it the screen gets covered in nasty fingerprints.
I can see touch screens viable for hybrid computers (like the new dell laptop-tablet hybrid) or for something like the microsoft studio desktop (or however it was called).
I actually find touch annoying as it sometimes triggers false touches and I keep forgetting to disable it.
I have a nice little lenovo yoga 6 on the side (nice little machine), but I never use its touch mode.
I think it literally has no benefit over the mouse/trackpad both in precision and usability, and the few times I use it the screen gets covered in nasty fingerprints.
I can see touch screens viable for hybrid computers (like the new dell laptop-tablet hybrid) or for something like the microsoft studio desktop (or however it was called).
I actually find touch annoying as it sometimes triggers false touches and I keep forgetting to disable it.
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I've always wanted a reason to cover my MacBook's beautiful Retina Mini-LED Display in greasy fingerprints!
And also a reason for my shoulder muscles to get sore and painful.
And also a reason for my shoulder muscles to get sore and painful.
Why not if it’s done in a clever way
A versatile Macpad with detachable keyboard or iMacpad that can control the angle to draw on it …
Everything possible
A versatile Macpad with detachable keyboard or iMacpad that can control the angle to draw on it …
Everything possible