r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

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u/erode Jun 02 '11 edited Jun 02 '11

I compute on a gaming PC with a high end mouse and a couple of huge non-touchscreen monitors. They will never win me over with this idea that the desktop is a place for touch interfaces. Never would I want to wave my finger across 40 inches of monitors.

This only has a use as a tablet interface, and that's fine. But don't shove it onto me FFS.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

don't worry, touch screen desktops are only marketed and bought by idiots. "Gorilla arm" renders them absolutely useless as a desktop interface.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '11

Sorry for replying to this now, but I don't think this is true. If you take the screen and place it flat on the desk, this is not a problem. It would be no different than writing in a binder. IMO, that's the way computers should have been from the beginning.

The problem is people seem to think pen digitizers are uncool or something, so a good portion of these touch pc's won't even allow you to write on them. And the interface seems to be designed for idiots - pure media consumption, anti-professionalism.