I'm one of the annoying luddites that continues to hope they never do this.
I know that if they added one I wouldn't have to use it, but as soon as a large enough percentage of Macs have touchscreens (which considering the majority of Macs sold are laptops, would be fairly quickly), software will start to assume that its there and be designed accordingly. I have absolutely zero desire to touch my laptop screen, nor do I want to lose a ton of UI density to accommodate touch input.
You can make the argument that they sell desktop computers and so software can never completely rely on a touchscreen, but there's already plenty of software that is suboptimal to use if you're using a mouse rather than a multitouch trackpad.
Clickbait title. The original even includes “here’s when it's coming”, yet they are guessing based on previous reports and admit they don’t know:
> This rough launch date is far from certain (…)
There’s no leaked Macbook Pro. What they do have is more information on who will manufacture the new chips and assumptions on what that means:
> A new report from DigiTimes suggests that Apple has now booked the production for new in-house design chips that will very likely power the next generation of Macs.
> (…)
> Being manufactured by Taiwanese firm TSMC, these new M2 chips will be based on a 4-nanometer fabrication process node, which in layman's terms means more transistors packed onto a slice of silicon and thus more power.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 25.6 ms ] threadI know that if they added one I wouldn't have to use it, but as soon as a large enough percentage of Macs have touchscreens (which considering the majority of Macs sold are laptops, would be fairly quickly), software will start to assume that its there and be designed accordingly. I have absolutely zero desire to touch my laptop screen, nor do I want to lose a ton of UI density to accommodate touch input.
You can make the argument that they sell desktop computers and so software can never completely rely on a touchscreen, but there's already plenty of software that is suboptimal to use if you're using a mouse rather than a multitouch trackpad.
> This rough launch date is far from certain (…)
There’s no leaked Macbook Pro. What they do have is more information on who will manufacture the new chips and assumptions on what that means:
> A new report from DigiTimes suggests that Apple has now booked the production for new in-house design chips that will very likely power the next generation of Macs.
> (…)
> Being manufactured by Taiwanese firm TSMC, these new M2 chips will be based on a 4-nanometer fabrication process node, which in layman's terms means more transistors packed onto a slice of silicon and thus more power.