Comments on: Video: Multi-touch Mac OS X – Great. Now I need to save for a 150-inch monitor

By: AdrienneA

AdrienneA — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:48:24 +0000

I’ve seen other similar demos, and my question is about the ergonomics of such a setup–if the screen is vertical, I’d have to be holding my arms up in the air all day. Not comfy. If the screen is horizontal/inclined, well–ever used a drawing board for 10 hours straight?

What’s wrong with having the input and the view separate? It’s easy to use a tablet once you get the hang of it.

The touchscreen kb is just dumb. No improvement over a physical kb, and what about the Pringles Problem?

Decent voice recognition, now THAT would be worthwhile!

By: Quikboy

Quikboy — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:12:41 +0000

Whoops, I forgot to mention how much it looks exactly like Microsoft Surface, except with a fancy OS X theme.

By: Quikboy

Quikboy — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:32 +0000

What a joke. Windows has had touch capabilities for so long, and only now has somebody enabled OS X (or what looks like OS X) with this.

I think this is a fake, because I know of know Mac laptops or desktop that offer touchscreens.

Nice skin, but it’s obviously fake.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:04:19 +0000

Why would anybody go this far to fake something like that?

By: Nopix

Nopix — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:38:48 +0000

This is FAKE OS X!!! The OS in the video has a Leopard Dock, but look on tghe System Preferences icon! It is the old icon used in Tiger. I think its a Linux

By: RG

RG — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:50:21 +0000

I not sure about the video, seemed a little “practiced”, maybe the guy is faking it or maybe not, I’m hoping for the latter. Anyway, look great.

By: CyberTeddy

CyberTeddy — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:35:24 +0000

after every work on that screen you have clean your “150-INCH MONITOR” ’cause of those fingerprints

By: Luke Henry

Luke Henry — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:50:19 +0000

I’m a Television Editor and I’ll tell you straight up. It would be amazing to run Avid or Final Cut Pro … or any edit software on a touch table. ….. will this happen anytime soon … probably not. But it would make my job so much easier.

By: Imagine Engine

Imagine Engine — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:57:43 +0000

Nice video presenting the technology. I’d like to have a multi-touch display on my MacBook Pro. Though of course with the ability to rotate the display so as to lay flat together with the base like a tablet to use with paint and drawing applications. Then I could toss the Wacom tablet.

By: Lucky

Lucky — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:29:11 +0000

I say that is linux.