Moving to touch-screen for thing that need to be tactile is a betrayal of the ergonomics of a laptop. Is as demand the use of a mouse in a iPad. Is not what the machine is.
I think the touch pad is a nice gimmick, and maybe, could be get some useful applications. But the removal of the Esc + F-Keys break a lot of the workflows. This is also the trend of make keyboards worse and worse with each iteration.
Is ironic that people demand good touch pad and complain when is bad, but think is ok when the keyboards get worse.
Moving to touch-screen for thing that need to be tactile is a betrayal of the ergonomics of a laptop. Is as demand the use of a mouse in a iPad. Is not what the machine is.
I think the touch pad is a nice gimmick, and maybe, could be get some useful applications. But the removal of the Esc + F-Keys break a lot of the workflows. This is also the trend of make keyboards worse and worse with each iteration.
Is ironic that people demand good touch pad and complain when is bad, but think is ok when the keyboards get worse.