They're killing the PC...

[Delta]

Sorry for not believing but I have yet to see someone who design websites and code software with a tablet using only fingers.

If you say you take pre-made PHP templates and join them together like a puzzle and add pictures I believe you and if you use pre-made code and fit it to make some sort of app I also believe you.

But hard coding and design from scratch on a Ipad-like device?   Please show me because if this is real I am really a dinosaur.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I'd totally buy a 3"-thick laptop if it just had a trackball in it.

Apple's got you covered!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

[Kesa]

Damn it! I fell for it. It was only when he said the battery would last a whole 19 minutes that i started getting suspicious. Good one!

[Thorham]

The people who refuse to accept that technology has moved on are dinosaurs...

Technology has moved on? How? None of these things are exactly new, you know.

There are people now who find the mouse as archaic as I used to find the keyboard...

They don't play peecee games, or they'd know better.

[Iggy]

You said it, man.


I prefer a mouse for desktop use, but the trackball was far and away the best solution for a laptop pointing device. I think they lost out because everybody fetishizes thinness so much, but man, I'd totally buy a 3"-thick laptop if it just had a trackball in it.

That is why I valued my clip on trackball, not very thick and easy to use.
It took very little motion with just my thumb to place the cursor exactly where ever I wanted it.
And I still cringe when people touch LCD screens (get your fingers off that!)

[gertsy]

Smudged screens are the way of the future. None smudged are on the way to extinction.

[trekiej]

I like the idea of having tera-flops under the hood but going from cpu to cpu and main board to main board. The Commodore/Amiga computers always find there way back to the ole conscious mind. I am not trying to cut down on Atari or other machines of the time.
But, These where the fun machines that made you go, "Awe cool".

[trekiej]

I like the idea of having tera-flops under the hood but going from cpu to cpu and main board to main board just is not like the old days. The Commodore/Amiga computers always find there way back to the ole conscious mind. I am not trying to cut down on Atari or other machines of the time.
But, These where the fun machines that made you go, "Awe cool".

[ElPolloDiabl]

They do make keyboards with built in trackballs. However the buttons are on the left while the trackball is on the right.
Can't type and trackball at the same time.
The quality of components has dropped a lot.

[persia]

Why can't PC manufacturers make a decent track pad.  Apple is buying the technology from somebody, you'd think Microsoft would figure out from whom...

[gertsy]

Why can't PC manufacturers make a decent track pad.  Apple is buying the technology from somebody, you'd think Microsoft would figure out from whom...

Microsoft don't make PCs? (Desktops or Laptops).

[Jpan1]

The only solution maybe to merge old and new technologies...

Like for example this comfortable retro-gamers laptop, with old school joystick, neatly tucked under laptop keyboard.. We've found a solution for those busy gamers who are on the move and yet want to retain that retro gaming feeling! (n.b closing laptop may be a problem)..