A touchscreen laptop DOES exist, I now have one (Fujitsu-Seimens
B-series) and it is a much quicker interface than a mouse or those awful
touch pad mouses found on most laptops. Just point your pencil & jab
(double jab), or drag, no clicking required. It's only a Celeron, so
it's not so fast but it's only for running sim[ple audio programs live,
I have a G3 as well
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> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:02:40 EST
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> From: Cichli@aol.com
> Subject: [idm] reason software / hardware
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> i love hardware. just playing with it is fun. but only after many
> weeks or months have i ever gotten anything useful from it. i find
> software much easier to be complex and detailed with than any hardware ive
> ever used (though i have limited experience). but there is no way to make
> up for the crappy interface of a keyboard and a mouse.
>
> caution: fantasy ahead......
> if i had it my way i would have a laptop-type computer, but in place of the
> keyboard would be a touchpad, but one which is configurable. that way you
> could (basically) turn it into a bunch of sliders and knobs or what have you,
> but with the flexibility of a computer screen. i dont know how easy it
> is physically, but it would be cool to have a screen under the (transparent)
> touchpad that could change what each specific "pixel" of the touchpad was
> for. would that just be heaven...........
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> :jason (i just want.....something beautiful)
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