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For more than 15 years, Apple has had a pretty simple answer to the idea of a touchscreen MacBook: no. Yesterday, Apple finally decided to think different and announce one anyway . "You've gotta touch it to believe it," says Apple CEO John Ternus. He might be right: I haven't yet

For more than 15 years, Apple has had a pretty simple answer to the idea of a touchscreen MacBook: no. Yesterday, Apple finally decided to think different and announce one anyway . "You've gotta touch it to believe it," says Apple CEO John Ternus.

He might be right: I haven't yet touched it, and I still can't quite believe it. Steve Jobs first called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible" in 2010, arguing that "touch surfaces don't want to be vertical" and that using one for an extended period of time makes "your arm want to fall off." He wasn't wrong about the fatigue aspect of using a touchscreen laptop for long periods of time, but … Read the full story at The Verge.