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minus-squaremelfie@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·4 days agoReminds me of shitty Windows 8 laptops back in the day. I don’t want to touch the screen—it has a keyboard and a trackpad.
minus-squareFireWire400@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·4 days agoAnd the trackpads on MacBooks are arguably better than touchscreens anyway.
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days agoThere’s also an argument to be made that they could have just had an integration to let an iPad be used as a touch screen interface. You can already use a Mac’s keyboard and mouse inputs on an iPad, it being able to go the other way wouldn’t be particularly strange.
Reminds me of shitty Windows 8 laptops back in the day. I don’t want to touch the screen—it has a keyboard and a trackpad.
And the trackpads on MacBooks are arguably better than touchscreens anyway.
There’s also an argument to be made that they could have just had an integration to let an iPad be used as a touch screen interface.
You can already use a Mac’s keyboard and mouse inputs on an iPad, it being able to go the other way wouldn’t be particularly strange.