This is a splendid computer, with many desirable features, but not the one I was expecting most… Multitouch is there, implemented in a shy way, through the trackpad, when I was hoping for the actual screen to be multitouch. This isn’t going to be as intuitive, and my initial impression is that it isn’t going to be much more than a new way to emulate the mouse wheel on a trackpad. Which isn’t that bad at all, but far from the revolution that multitouch screens will create when they do appear. I still think Apple is in the best position to make this happen, for the same reasons I mentionned previously: they have a head start with the iPhone, plus they have control over both the OS and the hardware which makes it possible for them to make it all available in one single step.

Maybe next year, then… In the meantime, I guess I should resume gpuViewer/OSX development.

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