On 7/25/2011 6:07 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2011-07-25, > wrote:
>
>> a desktop? If so, you are going
>> to get really tired of reaching and messing with the screen pretty
>> fast......at least that's what I hear.
>
> Touch screens have been around seemingly forever. They NEVER catch
> on, despite the hardware vendors reintroducing them repeatedly as
> "the next big thing" for the last 25 yrs. It's bad enough you gotta
> either pull the monitor up to your face or constantly reach full arms
> length to click a GUI, but then ya' gotta keep a bottle of Windex
> handy to keep yer pizza greasy fingerprints from hosing the view.

Why would you need to pull the monitor up to your face? You keep it at a
usable distance and use pinch gestures as required.

>
> The only place they make any sense is a computer kiosk.
>
> nb
>