Hands on with the MacBook Air [#FF00AA]

16 jan. 2008

In our demo, we saw the gestures at work in both iPhoto and Safari, though presumably these are features that third-party developers will be able to add to their applications as well.

Okay, now that yesterday’s keynote disappointment has passed, let’s be unrealistic and dream for a second: what if Apple had released the multitouchpad now so that third-party developers can include the feature in their software and everything’ll be ready when a touch-screen Mac is introduced at the next Macworld?

I mean, if they were going to release such a thing any time soon, it’s not like they’d give early prototypes to developers.

→ www.macworld.com

2008/01/16 - 21:42

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peter, 6 years ago:

french reader should also comment in english ? let's try :P

i think of touchscreen imac as a dream, nothing more. 2 points. first, imac's screen will be a totally mess with your fingers on all day long. Second, the distance between an imac and its user is different from an iphone. You'll certaibly get a very strong arm and a weak one ;)

touch technology, of course, but large screen touch technologuy don't stand a chance in my opinion. a touchy macbook air would have been yummi ... next time ;)

de passage, 6 years ago:

I share this excellent opinion :
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garoo, 6 years ago:

Well said indeed :)

xavier, 6 years ago:

Apple "invented" the windows + mouse interface, i'm sure they dream of something even more intuitive for a while. Good point though, they will have a looot of feedback on ergonomics as soon as developpers introduce gestures to their applications.

to peter about the messy screen : what do you think the glass screen shiled is for? a wet clothe and everything's back to normal.
It's not a big deal on iphone either ;)

peter, 6 years ago:

garoo > de passage or me ? ;)

xavier > yep, but do you see the difference between an iphone 4" screen and an imac 24" screen ? ;)

glass cleaner would be a daily job ;) "ajax" will really be on screen .. ;) (two cents joke time :) )

damn you garoo. how dare u still use gravatar ? I just realize mine was that ugly. got to change ;)

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