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After years of waiting and speculation , Apple has finally unveiled the new $2899 MacBook Pro (yes, it didn’t get a new name), whose major highlight is an OLED screen that responds to finger touch. You can now scroll , zoom , tap , draw , and more right on the screen with your finger, as if it were an iPad.

On top of that, this new model also brings back the iconic glowing Apple logo !

Steve Jobs dismissed the idea of touchscreen Mac notebooks and called them ‘ ergonomically terrible .’ He said that vertical touch screens cause arm fatigue and ‘ after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off .’

His full quote from 2010 reads :

“We’ve done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives a great demo, but after a short period of time you start to fatigue, and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. It doesn’t work. It’s ergonomically terrible.…

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