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Why MacBooks Don’t Have Touchscreens

Apple has resisted adding touchscreens to its laptops, even as they become staples in other devices. Here’s why, and when that could change. 00:00. Touchscreens are (almost) everywhere 01:37 Avoiding redundancy 03:00 Touchscreen Mac prototypes 03:59 Death of the Touch Bar 04:53 Customized touchscreen Macs 05:21 Why Windows laptops have touchscreens 07:22 Future generations Abrar…

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Apple has resisted adding touchscreens to its laptops, even as they become staples in other devices. Here’s why, and when that could change.

00:00. Touchscreens are (almost) everywhere
01:37 Avoiding redundancy
03:00 Touchscreen Mac prototypes
03:59 Death of the Touch Bar
04:53 Customized touchscreen Macs
05:21 Why Windows laptops have touchscreens
07:22 Future generations

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  1. K

    August 23, 2022 at 7:59 pm

    It’s all about ergonomics. Touch screen laptops and desktops are not practical; on both Mac and Windows devices. However, the TrackPad works very well and from an ergonomic perspective, makes more sense to move, point, click, zoom in/out and action other gestures.

  2. Roberto Villani

    August 23, 2022 at 8:12 pm

    When and if Apple wil make a laptop with touchscreens, people will call it innovation

  3. Buhari Altine

    August 23, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    Touch screen is the feature

  4. Jacob Long

    August 23, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    I think what makes more sense than a touchscreen Mac would be a dual boot iPad pro

  5. Andrew Shin

    August 23, 2022 at 8:42 pm

    I can see Apple saying “we are featuring touchscreen on macbooks, as this is something our Apple employees wanted on macbooks for productivity” (after 5 years later..).

  6. Gabriel Felippe Mateus

    August 23, 2022 at 9:00 pm

    The fanboys going crazy over here

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    August 23, 2022 at 9:04 pm

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  8. Lancelot Mtre - lm.digital

    August 23, 2022 at 9:06 pm

    Quick answer: to sell iPads

  9. Andy Lin Tran

    August 23, 2022 at 9:18 pm

    I hope apple knows the butterfly keys compromise the experience too

  10. AllOutOnline

    August 23, 2022 at 9:23 pm

    everything said in this video is wrong.

  11. Dian Sandi Putra

    August 23, 2022 at 9:24 pm

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  12. Mark Nakata

    August 23, 2022 at 9:54 pm

    Why can’t Apple make the MacBook’s track pad as a touchscreen?

  13. Randall C

    August 23, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    I personally hope that Apple never introduces touch capability to their MacBooks. It’s more efficient to rest your hands on it while you type whereas having to constantly lift your hand and motion with your arm to move around the screen can become annoying. I know – first-world problem – but with iPads, they’re designed for a more touch interface, even before the advent of keyboard peripherals for them.

    Secondly, Apple would have to overhaul MacOS to incorporate touch and while this is possible, it would compromise an integral part of what makes MacOS function the way it does. It would have to be some kind of hybrid system and to me, that’s just asking for potentially more issues that could arise from trying to maintain two different ways of interacting with the system.

    Lastly, and this is admittedly a minor one, the need to constantly clean fingerprints and smudges off the screen. That’s already a routine on portable touch devices so I don’t need to add a touch MacBook to the list.

    But yes, I can see where touch-enabled MacBooks could happen in the future. Hopefully not for a long, long time.

  14. K-BooGiE!

    August 23, 2022 at 10:31 pm

    Touch screen please

  15. marvin ochieng

    August 23, 2022 at 10:32 pm

    Good content but the presenter is looking yum !

  16. Duane Locsin

    August 23, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    Better of with a MacBook + MacOS and/or a Surface Pro X/8 + Windows 11.

    iPad Prps are just expensive blown up iPhones still running iOS

  17. ty

    August 23, 2022 at 11:01 pm

    Fact : no real professionals use touch screen computer! financial professionals? No! video editors? No! office professionals? No! scientists doing serious projects? No! computer engineering and coding? No! who ? who uses a touch screen!? even touch screen computer on windows is nothing but a gimmick!

  18. ty

    August 23, 2022 at 11:06 pm

    real Pros use keyboard shortcuts we rarely even use mice ! oh we hate i mean HATE anyone touches our screens! try tough any pro’s screen you will be lucky still have that hand attached to you after you touched it !

  19. Benjamin Martin

    August 23, 2022 at 11:09 pm

    One reason. The ipad

  20. Mutebi Bashir

    August 23, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    One thing I learned about Apple is it lets the thirsty for a given feature on its device to go extremely high then it brings it out. Wait in 2030. It’ll be out.

  21. Dark Lord Davi

    August 24, 2022 at 12:16 am

    Apple hasn’t ‘killed the Touch Bar. They just released the M2 Mac Book Pro 13 in with a Touch Bar in 2022 so the Touch Bar is still alive and kicking! I do agree overall with this video…MacBooks won’t get touch screen just like iPads won’t get the powerful software update that we all know ipads could run if Apple would allow it to do so.

  22. ashVGF

    August 24, 2022 at 12:21 am

    Great topic, editing, and presentation! You speak VERY clearly.

    It’s speculative but the sales and redundancy points make sense.

  23. Dan Awakes

    August 24, 2022 at 1:04 am

    It’s called a design system. It’s painful that not a single employee at CNET told them that the reason macs don’t have a touchscreen is because MacOS design system is NOT built for touch. The experience would suffer immensely if Apple simply added touch functionality to a system that’s not built for it.

  24. Anthony Kristofferson Alonzo

    August 24, 2022 at 1:14 am

    Let us be honest, most people and industries use PCs to get the job done.

  25. simioni

    August 24, 2022 at 1:22 am

    Every single MacOS UI update from the last 3 years have been about making elements bigger, more spaced out and less dense. Very touch friendly. Apple even made an entirely new cross-plataform UI framework, Swift UI, where every control supports multi-input mode (pointer + touch). These changes are not very visible for non-developers, but they have been going on for years. For anyone watching the underlying of Apple’s software, it’s very obvious that Macs will get touchscreens soon.

  26. EDMPureLove19

    August 24, 2022 at 4:57 pm

    I don’t ever want to own a macbook, too expensive even for the cheapest model, and Apple only having about 15.3% or so of the computer market (very small compared to Windows 78% or so) says something!!!!!!!!

  27. Don England

    August 24, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    I just bought a MacBook Air and the first thing my 8 year old did was touch the screen. He was shocked it didn’t work. My bet in 10 years he will expect a touchscreen Mac.

  28. zak

    August 24, 2022 at 5:05 pm

    I’m an artist. I love my iPad for drawing and my MacBook for editing and doing heavier tasks. I like the windows tablet concept where you can pull the screen off the keyboard. If you could make an iPad as powerful as a MacBook with a full fledge keyboard that detach that’d be great. Basically the iPad and magic keyboard now. But instead of iOS it’d have a Mac OS. They’ll get there one day.

  29. Stormchaser 08

    August 24, 2022 at 5:07 pm

    Apple and their dumb justifications of ‘user experience’ and s**t 😂

    “Macs are perfect without touchscreens”. dude, if you don’t want to use a touch screen, don’t use it 🤷🏾‍♂️. don’t hold those who want touchscreens back

    • Billy Rwothungeyo

      August 24, 2022 at 8:09 pm

      Those who want touchscreens should get the touch screen laptops that exist. Apple shouldn’t add that gimmick on the Mac!

  30. Joel Arias Diaz

    August 24, 2022 at 5:14 pm

    Obviously the answer is quite simple. Apple wants you to buy both an iPad and a MacBook. That’s why iPad don’t run Mac Os even though is totally capable of doing it and that’s the same reason for the lacking of touch screen on the Mac Book.

  31. vaibhav raverkar

    August 24, 2022 at 5:32 pm

    I dont understand what was the agenda of this video, nothing is clear. It is a one simple answer “Apple dont want to deliver touch screen laptops yet” You make such a long non-sense video for same.

  32. Chris Mazeroll

    August 24, 2022 at 5:49 pm

    It’s the same reason you can’t use a mouse properly on an iPad. They have moved so far away from being the leaders of the industry. Now they just follow once the path to max profits becomes clear.

  33. R S

    August 24, 2022 at 5:55 pm

    It’s a gimmick. iPad works fine for touch but for a MacBook it’s useless for most things. Icons are too small, fingerprints all over and just non intuitive.

  34. GyanPrakash

    August 24, 2022 at 6:04 pm

    Why this chick again 🙄🙄

  35. toby o

    August 24, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    I went from a Windows Lenovo touch screen to a MacBook Air and thought I would miss the touch screen. I did at first but not any more.

  36. C C

    August 24, 2022 at 7:00 pm

    I would never want a touchscreen on a laptop or desktop. They are fine on smartphones and tablets, but not for computing. I am happy I can still use a MacBook without a touchscreen.

  37. HelloWorld

    August 24, 2022 at 7:01 pm

    I do not want a touch screen on the macbook

  38. Roarke

    August 24, 2022 at 7:07 pm

    100% want touch screen Macs.

    As an iPad user who, out of habit, often reaches for the screen of my Mac only to be dismayed, i would 100% want a touch screen Mac.

    Any other iPad users do this with their Macs too?

  39. Billy Rwothungeyo

    August 24, 2022 at 8:00 pm

    Macs are perfect the way they are. May Apple never bring that touchscreen nonsense to it!

  40. Darky

    August 24, 2022 at 8:57 pm

    People really like laptops with touchscreen ?

  41. Ariel Santos

    August 24, 2022 at 9:41 pm

    Because Apple knows they’ll have much higher profit margins with a touchscreen macbook 😁

  42. Jamar Forsythe

    August 24, 2022 at 10:14 pm

    …because iPad.

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    August 24, 2022 at 10:42 pm

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  44. fatsun8

    August 24, 2022 at 11:20 pm

    Coz they want to charge you $7,000 for a touch screen option

  45. John Evans

    August 24, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    Why is it that offline media like Netflix or Prime Video content isn’t supported on Mac computers, but Apple TV offline media content is?

  46. tom lakes

    August 25, 2022 at 12:16 am

    Make people break their piggy banks to buy something and they would never question it. Soon Apple would work on a foldable phone too

  47. turboghini

    August 25, 2022 at 12:43 am

    i don’t have clummy hands or anything but touching a screen ads so many fingerprints it becomes distracting from trying to do your work

  48. Connor Halleck

    August 25, 2022 at 12:44 am

    lol there’s nothing janky about windows pointer controls. if anything the touch functionality on windows shows why it might be janky to have a touch screen mac

  49. Moped Mike

    August 25, 2022 at 12:51 am

    After using my iPad I got my first MacBook Air at first I keep touching the screen lol 😂 but after awhile I use the touch pad or Magic Mouse

  50. Venize

    August 25, 2022 at 1:11 am

    Honestly… I had a laptop with touchscreen, and never used that feature. So I don’t really care about touchscreens on laptops, especially when you work on a 15 to 17 inch computer, trying to use it as tablet it’s just uncomfortable.

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