When looking at all those 10" and 12" tablets and light weight 14" and 15" laptops and now the MS Surface ( & Pro), desktop users feel left out of being able to use multi-touch screens. A touch pad (like a Logitech) doesn't work effectively since you can't see what your touching immediately, glancing back and forth to ground yourself. Also, reaching out to touch your monitor 2 feet in front of you brings back memories of jokes like gorilla arm pain and first finding out using a wiimote can be taxing on your muscles.
So what's a technocrat to do?
1. Must be IPS screen
2. Must be fast for gaming with sub 6ms response time (the downfall of IPS panels)
3. Must have good color gamut near 90% Adobe/RGB (the bane of TN panels)
4. Must have good viewing angles over 120* (Second bane of TN panels)
5. Support HDMI 2.0 and display port
6. Not curved (this new gimmick in helping fix your focal point on the edges for super wide screens of 16:9)
7. Be able to mount on an incline (imagine the monitor in the place of your keyboard) The original huge MS tabletop Surface demos almost have it right, but in my opinion the monitor view should be merged with Star Trek TNG console panel layout for ergonomics (around 30* incline)
Some technologies have come close -- the Big Tab from Nabi, the Surface demo table (seen in some movies) the WiiU tablet controller... We're on the cusp. Putting it all together is the issue. Is the market there for such a product?
Oct-2015: Microsoft reveals the SurfaceBook. Apple reveals the iPad Pro.
Cons: SurfaceBook converts to a tablet and lasts 3 hours on battery.
Cons: iPad Pro has a stylus but no mouse. Still not OS X variant, and still Apple's own ARM CPU implementation, compared to Intel CPU. When will OS X support touch features? When can OS X scale apps to smaller screens 5", tablets 10" and laptops 13", etc. like Windows 10 Continuum?
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