Touch screen laptop
According to foreign media reports, after the advent of the Windows8 system, touch screen than before, more useful. However, some of the technology industry pundits have been convinced that the touch screen does not apply to the laptop. They sometimes quoted Steve Jobs in 2010, said the sentence: "The touch surface do not want to put on end." Jobs was to explain to the world why Apple laptop did not use the touch screen technology.
Earlier this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook (TimCook) also said: "You can be integrated into the oven and refrigerator together, but the kind of things could not get the user's favorite."
This is the view of the leaders of the world's most profitable technology company. I am sure, but I do not know why, this month or stop to visit my MacBookAir screen. I evaluation of various laptop for TheVerge, I recently tested a series of touch screen notebook product based Windows8 system. Well from the outset, I ready to greet disappointment, I'm ready for a rhetoric, such as Windows8 gesture control technology with the touch screen can be more easily operate a computer, but the whole idea is not how another example Windows8 interface to many impose unnecessary touch-screen control functions to the users, the users are certainly not like as, in particular, certain features traditional laptop has done very well.
As I Windows8 process become more aware of this system and I am increasingly convinced that the future development direction of the touch screen is the laptop, even if it's touch screen is placed vertically.
Jobs in 2010 publicly opposed touchscreen laptop, he relied only on decades of user experience research "gorilla arm syndrome" common sense, to say, is that if you are in front of the touch screen, arms stretched out and period of time, you will feel especially uncomfortable. However, there are a lot of assumptions, if you do not your arms stretched out in the air, ready to touch anything, but to stay in a very comfortable stance on the keyboard?
We view this problem has been wrong. The touch screen is not a keyboard or a mouse substitute, but a supplement. If I want to enter some content on a laptop, and I have enough room to stretch the arm, then, I would still choose the keyboard input. But if I was living in a crowded car or on the plane, or in line, and I have to do only with a very short reply to an e- mail, then use based Windows8 touchscreen laptop will easily complete these tasks.
But perhaps it is just an extreme example. In daily use, I found that no matter whether I was using the equipment with touch screen function, I will help to tap the screen, because I want to finish something faster, more intuitive.
If you want to start a program on the desktop computer, which mode of operation will be more effective? Crouching close to a special glass surface with your fingers gently slide easier, and then click on the icon above? Or find a visual icon and click on it easier? When you want to close a program, try to move the mouse pointer to the upper right corner of the dialog box that small "X" icon and click on it easier? Or with ALT + F4 shortcut keys easier? Or directly dropping the in the Windows8 page will process easier
Of course, these operations are particularly meaningful for the Windows system, because the touchpad experience under the Windows system has been very bad. This year, we tested some pretty good, relatively speaking touchpad, but on the whole in terms of those touchpad there is still a lot of loopholes, and also often occur without reaction. In contrast, these Windows8 laptop touch screen is like a fresh breeze is refreshing. Their poor performance is because I want to really try the touch screen, but even if their performance is not so bad, I think I would choose the direct control of the way through the screen. After all, with my MacBookAir touchpad is very general, and I always have to constantly remind myself not to go to the start bar on the touch screen.
Unfortunately, Windows8 been able to get outstanding performance and specifications of the display on the touch screen. Display greater resolution is lower, with a finger on the touch screen the easier to operate, because in that case, the icon will be relatively greater.
The problem is that the touch screen's low resolution makes icons appear. Windows8 does not seem to 1080p the small screen optimization, and even if you lower the resolution or DPI, so that you can get a larger touch targets, the Windows8 icon and has not changed much bigger. IE browser, you can quickly zoom zoom feature by clicking on the target, but Microsoft does not Windows8 system a similar shortcut scaling function.
Instead, Apple has a solution developed for this problem, and from the iPhone4 application. Retina display's pixel density is four times that of ordinary display, it will make the image look more sharp, but to touch the target, or the same size as before. iPad2 and third-generation or fourth generation of the iPad user interface is completely the same, just the image displayed on the display of a new generation of products more clear and sharp. Apple's 15-inch and 13-inch MacBookPro with Retina display is not a touch screen, but also with four times the pixel density of the same technology.
Apple did not develop the world's first MP3 player, the first touch screen smart phone, the first graphical user interface, the first tablet computer or first laptop solid-state drive. It is like when shot, etc. a mature technology, but the industry also do not quite understand how to properly use it. In this issue on the touch screen for a laptop, a similar situation may also occur. Perhaps Microsoft has verified this idea is feasible, but Apple now have another opportunity to get into the market, that is, the user interface is perfect and promote it.
Outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini (Paul Otellini) said Windows8 system is a semi-finished at the time, I believe he meant: Microsoft certainly see the direction of the development of the user interface, but no one able to be optimized for the next generation of touch screen user interface. If we now hear is true, Microsoft has a chance to correct the error, but the speed is faster than you think. Microsoft ready system upgrade once a year after the launch of Windows Blue If Microsoft is able to solve the problem of the user interface zoom adjustment, to find the Retina display alternatives or other user-friendly touch screen panel technology, Windows will be able to keep it in touch screen leader in the field. If Microsoft is able to seize this opportunity, in 2013, it can avoid Apple beyond.
Earlier this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook (TimCook) also said: "You can be integrated into the oven and refrigerator together, but the kind of things could not get the user's favorite."
This is the view of the leaders of the world's most profitable technology company. I am sure, but I do not know why, this month or stop to visit my MacBookAir screen. I evaluation of various laptop for TheVerge, I recently tested a series of touch screen notebook product based Windows8 system. Well from the outset, I ready to greet disappointment, I'm ready for a rhetoric, such as Windows8 gesture control technology with the touch screen can be more easily operate a computer, but the whole idea is not how another example Windows8 interface to many impose unnecessary touch-screen control functions to the users, the users are certainly not like as, in particular, certain features traditional laptop has done very well.
As I Windows8 process become more aware of this system and I am increasingly convinced that the future development direction of the touch screen is the laptop, even if it's touch screen is placed vertically.
Jobs in 2010 publicly opposed touchscreen laptop, he relied only on decades of user experience research "gorilla arm syndrome" common sense, to say, is that if you are in front of the touch screen, arms stretched out and period of time, you will feel especially uncomfortable. However, there are a lot of assumptions, if you do not your arms stretched out in the air, ready to touch anything, but to stay in a very comfortable stance on the keyboard?
We view this problem has been wrong. The touch screen is not a keyboard or a mouse substitute, but a supplement. If I want to enter some content on a laptop, and I have enough room to stretch the arm, then, I would still choose the keyboard input. But if I was living in a crowded car or on the plane, or in line, and I have to do only with a very short reply to an e- mail, then use based Windows8 touchscreen laptop will easily complete these tasks.
But perhaps it is just an extreme example. In daily use, I found that no matter whether I was using the equipment with touch screen function, I will help to tap the screen, because I want to finish something faster, more intuitive.
If you want to start a program on the desktop computer, which mode of operation will be more effective? Crouching close to a special glass surface with your fingers gently slide easier, and then click on the icon above? Or find a visual icon and click on it easier? When you want to close a program, try to move the mouse pointer to the upper right corner of the dialog box that small "X" icon and click on it easier? Or with ALT + F4 shortcut keys easier? Or directly dropping the in the Windows8 page will process easier
Of course, these operations are particularly meaningful for the Windows system, because the touchpad experience under the Windows system has been very bad. This year, we tested some pretty good, relatively speaking touchpad, but on the whole in terms of those touchpad there is still a lot of loopholes, and also often occur without reaction. In contrast, these Windows8 laptop touch screen is like a fresh breeze is refreshing. Their poor performance is because I want to really try the touch screen, but even if their performance is not so bad, I think I would choose the direct control of the way through the screen. After all, with my MacBookAir touchpad is very general, and I always have to constantly remind myself not to go to the start bar on the touch screen.
Unfortunately, Windows8 been able to get outstanding performance and specifications of the display on the touch screen. Display greater resolution is lower, with a finger on the touch screen the easier to operate, because in that case, the icon will be relatively greater.
The problem is that the touch screen's low resolution makes icons appear. Windows8 does not seem to 1080p the small screen optimization, and even if you lower the resolution or DPI, so that you can get a larger touch targets, the Windows8 icon and has not changed much bigger. IE browser, you can quickly zoom zoom feature by clicking on the target, but Microsoft does not Windows8 system a similar shortcut scaling function.
Instead, Apple has a solution developed for this problem, and from the iPhone4 application. Retina display's pixel density is four times that of ordinary display, it will make the image look more sharp, but to touch the target, or the same size as before. iPad2 and third-generation or fourth generation of the iPad user interface is completely the same, just the image displayed on the display of a new generation of products more clear and sharp. Apple's 15-inch and 13-inch MacBookPro with Retina display is not a touch screen, but also with four times the pixel density of the same technology.
Apple did not develop the world's first MP3 player, the first touch screen smart phone, the first graphical user interface, the first tablet computer or first laptop solid-state drive. It is like when shot, etc. a mature technology, but the industry also do not quite understand how to properly use it. In this issue on the touch screen for a laptop, a similar situation may also occur. Perhaps Microsoft has verified this idea is feasible, but Apple now have another opportunity to get into the market, that is, the user interface is perfect and promote it.
Outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini (Paul Otellini) said Windows8 system is a semi-finished at the time, I believe he meant: Microsoft certainly see the direction of the development of the user interface, but no one able to be optimized for the next generation of touch screen user interface. If we now hear is true, Microsoft has a chance to correct the error, but the speed is faster than you think. Microsoft ready system upgrade once a year after the launch of Windows Blue If Microsoft is able to solve the problem of the user interface zoom adjustment, to find the Retina display alternatives or other user-friendly touch screen panel technology, Windows will be able to keep it in touch screen leader in the field. If Microsoft is able to seize this opportunity, in 2013, it can avoid Apple beyond.
