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Ya. I thought it would be cool to have those touch screen monitor. But its so useless. You sit about two feet away and whenever you want to touch the screen, your hand hovers. How long can you have your hand hover like that?

Good to show off though.

-Eb
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Boulware <bill.boulware@gmail.com>
Sender: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:39:38
To: <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [apple-iphone] Apple patents iMac touch screen

Innovative? With Apple, definitely. One of a kind? Not so much, HP has had touch screen all in one machines for a couple years now and "Gateway" is starting to - never huge sellers and somewhat overpriced:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/All-In-One+Computers/Touch+Screen/pcmcat190000050014.c?id=pcmcat190000050014

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:28, EC <e.canteen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Very interesting, wouldn't be the first but I'm sure (if it happens) it'll
> be innovative and 1 of a kind.
>
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@me.com> wrote:
>
> > > Is this real or the rumor mill?
> > >
> > >
> http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/08/23/apple-looks-to-patent-imac-touch-features-both-os-x-and-ios/
> >
> > Apple patents a lot of technology and ideas that they come up with.
> > They don't USE all these things they have patents for, however.
> > That said, I suspect there will eventually be an iMac with touch-screen
> technology.

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