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I want to upgrade to a better touch screen, I send an e-mail to ELO since they seem to be market leaders but no reply. Anyone using a mac mini with a 19-22 inch touch screen in a POS enviorment ?

In a recent article, Gurman reported that the iPhone maker could launch its first touchscreen Mac as early as 2025. According to Gurman, the feature would be available in the Pro variant MacBooks.

Gurman also noted that additional updates would rollout to these rumored MacBook Pros beyond the inclusion of a touchscreen, such as screens with OLED technology instead of the Mini LED displays currently found in the 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros, which were released in October 2021. Of course, this is a report; keep this with a grain of salt.Apple MacBook Pro M1 Pro Photos

The closest Apple got to launching a MacBook with a touchscreen was in 2016 when the company released the Touch Bar. Additionally, Apple previously made prototype Macs with touch screens that were never released as final products, as Apple"s senior vice president of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, told CNET back in 2016.

If Apple were to launch a Mac with a touch screen, it certainly would be an interesting pivot for the company that previously wanted to avoid the idea of producing touchscreen Macs. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said back in 2010 that a touchscreen on something like a laptop was "ergonomically terrible." In 2012, when asked by analysts to comment on the release of the Microsoft Surface hybrid tablet, Apple CEO Tim Cook noted that it was "a fairly compromised, confusing product."

A Mac with a touch screen would be placed in an interesting position in both the market and Apple"s ecosystem. While laptops with touch screens are nothing new, having been around for years on Windows OS-based laptops, Apple has been slowly turning the iPad into a "laptop lite" device.

Aside from the iPad having many keyboard accessories like the Logitech Combo Touch and the Magic Keyboard, Apple has even put its ARM-based system on a chip, the M1 (and M2 with the most recent iPad Pro models), into the iPad Air and iPad Pro models.

Apple is working on Macs with touchscreens, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. While it’s uncertain whether the devices will actually come to market, Gurman says in a tweet that we could see a touchscreen MacBook Pro as early as 2025. The report also notes that the screens may use OLED technology, as opposed to the Mini LED displays that are currently in the 14- and 16-inch models.

The project seems to be in relatively early stages, with engineers being “actively engaged,” according to the report. Gurman says that there are no final plans for launching touchscreen Macs and that plans could always change — we’ve seen Apple scrap projects before, and the company has made prototype Macs with touchscreens that never saw the light of day, according to Craig Federighi.

Gurman says the rumored MacBook Pro would include other updates but would more or less retain the same form factor as current models; you’d just be able to tap and gesture on the screen.

If this product does end up on store shelves, it would be a major reversal for the company. Apple has famously avoided adding touchscreens to its macOS devices, even as iPadOS flourished (and as it brought apps meant for touchscreens to its desktops). Steve Jobs famously criticized computers with touchscreens — as well as devices that use styluses — saying that they were “ergonomically terrible” when announcing the iPad.

Instead of adding touchscreens to laptops, Apple pursued a Touch Bar for Macs from 2016 until starting to phase it out with the release of redesigned 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros in 2021.

Since then, though, the tech has become commonplace on many Windows laptops, and a plethora of iPad accessories have basically turned the tablet into a MacBook. I’m unaware of any reports that people’s arms have fallen off from heavy touchscreen use but have found laptops with them to be convenient in many situations. With that said, I do think macOS will probably need a heavy refresh if it’s going to be used with a touchscreen; I can’t imagine trying to hit the current traffic light window controls or navigate the menu bar with my finger.

Dual-booting two operating system, Windows and macOS, on MacBook becomes lots of users’ choices, which brings more convenience for work and entertainment. Whether you want to do work with Windows Office or play Windows-only online games, both can be done on the super-thin MacBook! The most important thing is when running Windows on MacBook, it supports the external touch signals, which means it is possible to use the external second touchscreen monitor on Mac!

Shut down MacBook > press the power button> hold the Option button until the drive options appear on the screen > select the Windows drive, and you will be able to boot the Windows system!

After installing Windows 10 on the MacBook, it supports Windows environment! Let’s connect the touchscreen monitor to MacBook by the in-box USB Type-C cable, which can transmit touch, video and power signals at the same time. If you find that the touchpoint is inaccurate, that is not a big problem! Use Windows Tablet PC touch calibration function to calibrate the touch input accuracy!

Just type in the search bar: "Calibrate the touchscreen"> Click "Calibrate the screen for pen or touch input" > Select the name of the monitor model on the display> Click "Calibrate", and then follow the instructions on the screen to finish calibrating!

▼ Both sides can operate the screen when doing face-to-face discussions! One uses the mouse to operate the screen, the other one can directly operate the screen with fingers!

The thin, light, stylish MacBook is lots of people’s top choice. Compared with ordinary Windows laptop, MacBook especially has the advantage to run two operating systems, allowing users to switch between MacOS and Windows. If you need to use the original Microsoft Office or compile the program under Windows environment, installing the dual operating systems on MacBook helps your work run smoother. By connecting M505T touchscreen monitor to MacBook, scrolling web pages or zooming in and out reports can be intuitively done by fingers. Be sure to use it to increase convenience and improve work efficiency!

Thus far, Apple has resisted bringing touchscreens to the Mac lineup. Steve Jobs was famously opposed to the idea. Jobs called it an “ergonomically terrible” idea. “Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical,” he said in 2010, around the time of the iPad’s introduction. “After an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off.”

More recently in 2021, Apple marketing executive Tom Boger explained that the iPad is the world’s “best touch computer” and the Mac is “totally optimized for direct input.”

At the time, Boger said Apple didn’t have a reason to change that and bring touchscreen capabilities to the Mac. Apparently, things have now changed, and Apple thinks it’s time to consider a touchscreen Mac.

As part of this effort, the company is testing a MacBook Pro with touchscreen capabilities. Apple is considering releasing this as soon as 2025, but there are ongoing deliberations inside the company that could impact that timeline.

The MacBook Pro revamp being tested inside Apple retains a “traditional laptop design” that includes a standard trackpad and keyboard. The difference, of course, is that the screen would “support touch input and gestures – just like an iPhone and iPad.”

If the company decides to move forward with launching touchscreen Macs, Bloomberg says that the technology could eventually expand to other models in the lineup as well.

As part of the MacBook Pro revamp, Apple is also planning to move its displays to organic light-emitting diode, or OLED technology. The company currently uses LCDs — liquid crystal displays — on its Macs, but iPhones and Apple Watches already rely on OLED. Those screens offer improved brightness and color and will also come to the iPad Pro in the first half of 2024.

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There are some things you can set your watch by. The sun will always rise in the east, Uncle Sam will always want your taxes, and people will always ask when Apple is going to release a touchscreen Mac. If you have been wondering about the latter, I’ve got some news for you: Apple just made it happen at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). But hear me out — it’s not what you expect.

When most people envision a touchscreen Mac, they think of the standard MacBook Pro or iMac, but with touch controls built in. Lots of companies already do that, and they make some pretty great devices. But Apple has always said it thinks this sort of device is bad for your posture and makes your arms ache with prolonged use. It is likely that that kind of touchscreen Mac is never going to happen.

But here’s the thing: By making these devices and their accompanying operating systems more like each other, Apple is not focusing on the hardware. It is not building touchscreen panels into its Macs. Instead, it is channeling its energies into the software. And that is what is giving us a sort of halfway-house touchscreen Mac.

But Universal Control means you can do more than just control multiple screens. You can drag and drop files from your iPad onto your Mac in one smooth motion. You can swipe between iPad apps using your Mac’s trackpad gestures. It even works on three or more devices at the same time, letting you move a file from an iPad, across a MacBook, and onto an iMac, all without taking a break.

And what does the iPad bring that the Mac still lacks? Why yes, a touchscreen. With Universal Control, you can work on your Mac, then move that work to the iPad and continue with your Mac’s keyboard and mouse without skipping a beat. The only difference is you now have a touchscreen at your disposal.

Sure, it is not running MacOS and it doesn’t have full window control yet, but one of the major barriers to standing it on an equal footing with the Mac has just been eliminated. And one of the major barriers to using your Mac with a touchscreen panel has also been swept asunder. If you were holding out for a touchscreen Mac, this is pretty damn close.

Let’s not get carried away here, it is still not a full desktop experience. There are no menu bars, no full Mac apps, and more limited window management tools than you would find on your desktop or laptop. It is a hobbled touchscreen Mac experience thanks to Apple’s reluctance to go full steam ahead. But combined with the much more exciting goings-on in Universal Control, it makes the iPad a far better tool for more involved work.

Apple says it does not want to merge iPadOS and MacOS because it would dilute the best features of each system. And let’s be honest, it also does not want to cannibalize the sales of each device by the other because they are so similar. But in spite of its repeated denials, today’s WWDC announcement is the closest we have ever been to getting a touchscreen Mac. Who knew it would actually be an iPad?

Apple is reportedly adding touch screens to its Mac computers – a design idea that the company’s co-founder Steve Jobs had considered “ergonomically terrible”.

Teams within the company are actively engaged in developing and adding touch screens to Apple’s MacBook Pro with the product being considered for release as early as 2025, according to Bloomberg.

Even as recently as 2021, the tech giant’s marketing executive Tom Boger said while the iPad is the world’s “best touch computer”, the Mac is “totally optimized for direct input”.

“We really feel that the ergonomics of using a Mac are that your hands are rested on a surface, and that lifting your arm up to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do,” he had explained.

Bloomberg reports that Apple’s first revamped MacBook Pro with the new design is expected to include its standard trackpad and keyboard, with the addition of a screen supporting touch input and gestures like in an iPhone or iPad.

For this change, Apple is reportedly planning to move from LCDs – liquid crystal displays – on its Macs to organic light-emitting diode, or OLED technology.