A touchscreen on a conventional laptop might be kind of annoying to use. My arms will get tired. - Paul Buchheit

The same point was made by Steve Jobs. It certainly will get tiring if you point up at the screen. Maybe not if the screen lies down flat, like the OLPC2 2010 vaporware plans. My bet is Apple figures it out before Windows 7 and the OLPC2 see the light of day. - Ranjit Mathoda

agreed paul, that is pretty silly, a redesign is needed -- like say a mac tablet, coming fall 2008 :) - MG Siegler

or maybe that is microsoft's "Wii-Fit" approach. toned arms for the masses! - MG Siegler

Unless touchscreens really figure out a way to really nail tactile feel, I don't see them coming to mainstream computers. - Jacob Nahin

lots of patents suggest lots of work being done on that front simon, i'm hopeful - MG Siegler