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Shrig 🐌

Technology has gone too far, nobody needs this

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Shrig 🐌

The only conceivable reason I can think of for this is to put an animated gif of a cat to stroke on it. And is it worth it? Sort of yes, mostly no though let's be real

Phantom

@Shrigglepuss Does it act like a regular monitor or how is it used?

Shrig 🐌

@phantom It acts as a regular multi-touch touchpad and external monitor in a mechanical sense, but has a bit of software that can switch it into a sort of touchscreen mode with buttons and gestures which is particularly cursed because then you can't use it as a touchpad as well

Tessalation

@Shrigglepuss you're forgetting artists, who make frequent use of the ability to touch directly what they are modifying...

Tessalation

@Shrigglepuss so you're saying it has two potentially usable surfaces instead of just the one?

Shrig 🐌

@jakimfett potentially, but what use is an extra 6" surface for drawing on with worse colours and a surface finish that a stylus would probably scratch over time? I don't get it

Tessalation

@Shrigglepuss maybe doing an art looks different for some than you are imagining here.

Maybe you could ask an artist what they would use it for instead of prescribing your not getting it as the only way or perspective.

Literally different strokes for different folks.

Were this mine...

...I would avoid using something that scratches my interface for art, and have zero problems with the fact that the color bits aren't perfectly matched because nobody else has a display that perfectly matches anyway, now I have two points of visual perspective instead of one.

...I can put my palette on it, and rely on my trackball for pointer input.

...I could use it for seeing the way it looks on a tiny screen without uploading it to my phone or resizing it, helping me determine if it's worth spending extra hours getting something to look just right.

...I would use it for my to-dos, so the entire main screen could be the piece of work instead of cluttered by tiling my tertiary stuffs.

...and I would have key ccombos to swap between these modes, because I know my workflows, and although most of them are not art, the use case of something like this is broad enough to appear obvious to me.

But then, I design hardware...not everybody thinks about all six million details of physical kinesthetic stuffs.

@Shrigglepuss maybe doing an art looks different for some than you are imagining here.

Maybe you could ask an artist what they would use it for instead of prescribing your not getting it as the only way or perspective.

Literally different strokes for different folks.

Were this mine...

...I would avoid using something that scratches my interface for art, and have zero problems with the fact that the color bits aren't perfectly matched because nobody else has a display that perfectly matches anyway,...

Shrig 🐌

A fun bit of trivia about this touchpad btw is that it's manufactured by Toshiba and not Asus. Toshiba knew better than to add it into their own laptops it seems

go͚ktu͠g

@Shrigglepuss looking at that photo hurts my neck

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