Does a macbook has touchscreen at any price-point ? At least with the windows machine if you have trouble with trackpad, touchscreen will come to rescue. Its insane how people get hung up one thing and talk as if that is central. When Apple released Retina branded hi-res, its all about resolution, now that Macbooks are not hi-res than their competition somehow its not that important anymore.
Dude, its just a tool - use it if you can. Your reality or competence of usage of a tool is always subjective, so lets all chill and pick the marbles we like respectively.
> Does a macbook has touchscreen at any price-point ?
Why do I care? I barely use the touchscreen on my 16k RMB X1, and I numb my pointer finger on its precise yet painful trackpoint because the trackpad is useless. Without the trackpoint, I would have to give up, since the touch screen really doesn't work for programming.
> Dude, its just a tool - use it if you can.
A tool that doesn't work, and I'm pissed off about it. This is not a pissing contest, but about having a tool that doesn't suck.
> Your reality or competence of usage of a tool is always subjective, so lets all chill and pick the marbles we like respectively.
I use PCs because of my work. But whenever I use my wife's macbook, I'm absolutely floored by the trackpad...that actually works...why should designers get better equipment than programmers?
People that settle for crappy tools make me unhappy.
Your argument has merit, but my point is you are overblowing the importance of trackpad. I would rather have the trackpad that is as capable as MBA on SP3, but I am willing to compromise there given other aspects of SP3 as well as, at least in my case as a programmer I used touch to compensate for some shortcomings of trackpad.
The track pad is very important to me, a working one is very useful, and who wants to carry around a mouse (and find a table to use one) or suffer from guerilla arm using touch all the time. If it is important to you, you can only get a MacBook.
