Saturday 22 March 2008

Microsoft Surface to compete with competitor's new product: Transparent MacBook Touch


Image Source: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/category/macbook+touch/

In one of my classmates' blog, Edy Chandra, he has discussed and introduced about the new Microsoft touch product called, 'Surface Computing' which currently costs $5000 to $10,000 per unit, and according to Bill Gates in BBC news,
  • In the next 5 years, people will definitely change the way of interacting with computers whereby mouse and keyboard would become more intuitive and natural technologies.
  • "Vision and speech interfaces would become vital" by adding the ability to touch with interfaces and directly manipulate with users' activity with the machine.
Meanwhile On March 21, 2008 report, Apple has introduced their new touch product called, Transparent Mac Book (image below). It is an interesting innovative device I would say by Apple because it works as a control surface on two sides, "both while the device is open and close". According to the report,
  • "The transparent touch display takes the normal role of a multi-touch surface when the computer is closed, so you can simply operate on the closed top face surface."
  • "When the computer is opened, using a typical notebook clamshell move, the inside bottom surface will display a keyboard (or any other kind of user interface) while the top surface still serves as a normal notebook screen."


I personally think the whole idea and concept of "Touch" devices and appliances has create a new way of living to everyone where it is more convenient, innovation, creative, and interesting concept in the market today!. The graph below indicates a positive sign of sales and the productivity of the products for the future growth.


Source: http://www.cellular-news.com/story/24451.php

Positively I am one of the interested buyers that would like to purchase it and experience utilising this new product daily.
I would agree with Bill Gates that in the next 5 years, it would change the way people interact with computers and way of living such as in education field, people in organisation, and more.

Moreover, I believed that with the consistent performance in terms of maintenance, reliability, and durability of the "Touch" product, people will have more confidence in purchasing it as it will be the next best thing on earth, and encourage a more creative and innovation generation to achieve globalisation.


Do you agree?



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

personally, i think its a very fragile piece of equipment.. what worries me most is that it might rate higher on its style than its actual capabilities. no doubt, MAC comes up with great things, but a dual screen computer seems too ambitious.

Anonymous said...

the macbook touch looks really cool..n more convenient compared to the other. n u can play piano on it.. but however, i think it will still take some time to perfect the whole product before they can actually launch it into the market, coz like jezvynna said, it is quite fragile..

Zalina said...

Thank you for your feedback! We shall see how reliability Mac produce the product of Macbook touch in terms of "fragile" factor :)

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