Instead of annoying you with small-ish updates, I decided to lump everything into one large octomom birthing (see, I'm using topical humor to stay relevant. Ocotomom is still relevant, right? Oh God, what happened to my life?) update.
3rd Party Company creates touchscreen capability with iMacs/monitors/Macbooks
Troll Touch Touchscreen created a bunch o slip screens that cover the glass and connect via USB ports. The only problem is that they range from $699 - $1699. This could overall, double the cost of your mac. But it does run quite smooth.
My biggest problem with anything touch screen though, is that it creates more problems than alleviates. Touch screen really only works on something small like on cell phones or portable media devices. When it's applied to a computer like this, it becomes a little daunting to do a simple task, like typing.
Whoever stood at a digital ATM and thought, I'd like to work off of this thing? That's basically what you'd be making your computer. A kiosk. I apologize if that is what you are trying to make, but for the average household, it's not going to fly.
This is really just something cool to show off to your friends, before you remove it and quickly surf the intarwebs faster on your mouse and keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts are also a thing of beauty. Sure, you can replace those with gesture controls and what have you, but it's just not as effective. You'd be straining your arms and it's not exactly the most ergonomic thing you could do for 8 hours, let alone 15 minutes at a time.
My last complaint with touch screen computers is that you can't see what you're doing. Your hands will constantly get in the way of scrolling around or when you are trying to type (in one of the videos, the guy who's demoing the system has to pull up a virtual keyboard, which would take up screen real estate). But meh, whatever, I can still show it off the ladies. Right? Wait till they see my ram board. Hur hur! Nerd jokes.
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