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by nothrowaways5 hours ago |
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upvoteby mrtksn5 hours ago|
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It's actually quite pleasant user experience for scrolling. Some interactions are better with a pointer, others are better with touch.

You can try it on an iPad with Magic Keyboard attached, it's very good to be able to do precision through the trackpad and then casually move large things on the screen with your fingers.

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upvoteby prmoustache5 hours ago|
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Honestly I just hate having fingerprints on a screen. And I use pageup/pagedown mostly which to me is better than scrolling.

Trackpad is nice for a device you can lay flat on a table or keep on one hand while sitting on the sofa, not too much when the device has a keyboard permanently attached to it and it cannot fold. I know I have a thinkpad like that and I never use the touchscreen.

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upvoteby LtWorf4 hours ago|
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Yesterday someone online told me I'm a boomer because (among the many other issues I mentioned) I said that apple computers lack page up/down keys which is annoying.
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upvoteby genthree4 hours ago|
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Option-up/option-down?

Two keys rather than one, but makes up for it by not being way off in some oddball part of the keyboard. You can one-hand it pretty easily, since there's an "option" right next to the arrow keys.

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upvoteby MarsIronPI1 hours ago|
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As a stolid classic-era Thinkpad user I don't have a dog in this fight, but it seems to me that the strain of having to hold down another key as I scroll rapidly would get tiring rather quickly. Perhaps if there was a Cmd lock it would be fine.
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upvoteby nothrowaways5 hours ago|
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Agree for iPad. But for a laptop trackpads ftw!
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upvoteby gavinsyancey5 hours ago|
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You don't have to use it.
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upvoteby criddell5 hours ago|
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As long as there's a way to maintain the current display density, that would be just fine.

However, like on Windows, I suspect macOS would increase the tap target size on lots of the touchable elements. Even if I don't use the touchscreen, I would still have to pay the touch target real estate tax in my applications.

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upvoteby hntway909044 hours ago|
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That's a fair ask. My dream would be a simple toggle in something like control center for macOS that can flip between "touch mode" and "desktop mode" with most of the under the hood stuff being the same and just UI changes for the task. No doubt this would create new hurdles for software devs but again I'm dreaming here. Windows 10 actually had this with "tablet mode" in the notification center but I think they already soured people on the touch Windows thing by this point. I think Apple could reasonable do it better if they had the will but they'd much rather you buy and iPad for touch and a mac for desktop and everyone who doesn't want an extra device for certain use cases is left out in the rain.
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upvoteby dataflow4 hours ago|
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Note on Windows you can disable the touch device and it goes back to the old density. Don't know if Macs support it.
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upvoteby nothrowaways5 hours ago|
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you will accidentally touch the screen more often that you think.
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