Super-thin screen bezels give the panel a modern, sleek look, plus there are integrated stereo speakers for added versatility. However, curiously Apple shows no signs that a touch screen MacBook is on the horizon and is sticking to their viewpoint that their users just don't need it.Marketed at commercial and educational settings as well as home use, the TD2230 boasts a 7H hardness-rated protective glass for extra scratch protection and durability. I do know that Apple has had customers clamoring for touch screen MacBooks who have become indoctrinated into touch UI's via iPads. Scanning the most recent rumors on future MacBooks I find no references at all to adding a touch screen to any new Apple laptop.

They continue to be holding to their philosophy that people don't want to take their hands off the keyboard, and the trackpad or mouse is the more efficient way to interact with all of their clamshell MacBooks. Still, Apple remains a hold-out on adding a touch screen to any MacBooks. Starting with two-in-ones and now on all types of laptop designs, the optional touch screen UI's are standard fare on about 35% of all laptops produced. Since the intro of Apple's touch UI, touch screen laptops have become popular in the Windows laptop world. While some did use the touch bar, it never did take off with MacBook users, and Apple took it out of future designs in 2020. They were adamant that the TouchBar would give people that feature without having to touch the screen. At the time of the touch bar introduction, I had a discussion with a couple of high-level Apple executives who, at that time, argued that people did not want to lift their hands from the keyboard to use the screen for interacting with a program. Apple did add touch capabilities to the Mac via the TouchBar in 2016, which integrated a touch UI into the keyboard but not the screen.

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