Touchscreen PCs
Will touchscreen PCs catch on?
Among the plethora of shiny new Windows 7 PCs, laptops and netbooks bowing amid much ballyhoo in the last week are a handful of models with touchscreens.
Touchscreens are fine for cellphones and maybe a tablet, but for a desktop PC? What additional flexibility could a touchscreen offer that a keyboard, mouse or scratchpad can’t? And won’t your computer screen soon be covered with finger oil smudges and streaks? Touchscreens will be a boon to screen-wipey makers, but no one else, right?
I had a chance to reach out and touch touchscreen PCs from Sony and HP over the last couple of weeks, and I’ve come to the conclusion that for desktop PCs, touchscreens are the most important input innovation since the mouse. Within a couple of years, touchscreens will be a pervasive feature on a majority of new Windows PCs.
But what about Apple? After all, Jobs & Co. legitimized touch as an acceptable interface for the masses with the iPhone. But Apple’s new iMac line, as pretty as it is, doesn’t include touchscreens.
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