We’ve had touchscreen laptops for years. Can Apple make them better?

Seeing the airy connected touchscreen laptops. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

A fridge is astir to beryllium merged with a toaster. Dogs and cats are soon to beryllium surviving together. But it's not wide hysteria; Apple is expected to yet denote a touchscreen MacBook time astatine its "Pro and Tell" event.

A laptop with a touchscreen should beryllium nary large woody - we've had them for ages. But Apple took a hardline stance against them. In summation to Tim Cook's infamous 2012 punctuation equating it to combining room appliances, Steve Jobs emphatically dismissed touchscreen laptops arsenic "ergonomically terrible" back successful 2010, saying, "Touch surfaces don't privation to beryllium vertical."

The closest Apple got was the MacBook Pro Touch Bar, from 2016 t …

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