Ditto we still don't use them.
Our users have a choice of laptop or iPad/Surface other than a desktop
thin client on our VM Ware network.
90% choose the Win7 laptop. They're more expensive, slower, and break
more often than the thin client but not as often as the iPads. The
Surface's are new so no experience base with them yet. Our hardware
group absolutely hate touch screens. I'm a Network Engineer...I have no
use for them either.
My brother does IT for a school district that equipped all of their
middle school kids with cutting edge iPads. 700 of them. My brother had
to get good at replacing the very expensive coated touch screens that
the evil empire said mere mortals couldn't replace. He got no help from
Apple other than expensive parts. That experiment lasted three years and
they switched to Chrome books.
I guarantee as sure as I'm sitting here *that touch screen will fail
within a year...if not sooner*, and you've got no chance to fix it
yourself. I can order parts from Elecraft for all my rigs and fix them.
No sweat.
I'm curious why is direct sampling SDR's like the 7300 are supposed to
be the second coming why Icom stuck with the traditional superhet
architecture on it's "flagship" 7851? Maybe they realize the technology
is at least 5 years away from being competitive. Everybody is ignoring
W4TV's 800lb Gorilla, ADC overload.
On 4/26/2016 5:28 PM, Clay Autery wrote:
Coat it however you want... Doesn't stop dirt and grime being put on
the screen possibly scratching and/or gooping up the corners and edges...
I've been in IS/IT for 25+ years... Screens are not for touching.
Bottom Line... I'll stick with buttons, dials, and switches, thank you. :)
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