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>when they sit down at a retina screen

Please. High DPI screens are old hat. And Apple continues to stubbornly refuse to put touch screens in their computers, because they know what's best for you.

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Not only that. As an engineer with 28 years of experience, I'm pass "Wow" times. I worked with enough "wow" engineers who had everything top shiny with Apple logo but when it came to fixing something they spent minutes smooth scrolling then clicking and waiting for nicely animated warning popup that fell down from top and bounced back very nicely like a real tennis ball before they had a chance to click call to action. After they were done getting to it, I turned around and told boss "fixed and pushed into production".

The bottom line is that you can definitely deliver cargo of potatoes bags into your fries&cola stand in a shiny new Lamborghini and "wow" everyone around... you can also have a Nissan minvan to do so equally good or better.

None of what you’re saying changes what I said.

To be fair I'd rather not have a touch screen on my laptop to haphazardly poke and prod at

I agree, I believe this is one area where Apple made the right decision. A computer should either be used like an actual computer, or used as a mobile device. It takes more than just a touchscreen to make it the latter. So it doesn’t make sense to add it arbitrarily. Now adding a keyboard to a mobile device, however, does offer some nice flexibility without compromising on the mobile aspect of it.

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