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Acer replaces laptop keyboard with multi-touch LCD

Why ?

Why are so many laptops and LCDs coming out with those horrid, glossy screens ?

We've known since the 1980s that glossy screens are bad bad bad for the user, indeed it was a very specific health and safety rule that screens should always be non-reflecting. When you sit in front of a screen, you want to see the document you are working on, not the rest of your office or, worse still, the street outside. Your eyes and brain must both do significant extra work to distinguish your document from those unnecessary reflections.

Surely, its time it was made a legal requirement for the brochures of products with such horrendous design defects to contain a serious health warning or, better still, be prohibited altogether.

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Combining the disadvantages

of a laptop with the disadvantages of a tablet?

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At least the ladies won't need hand mirrors

With two shiny screens this unit is as good as a make-up desk.

Which OS are they contemplating using? Two LCD screens could spell trouble - buying an extended warranty is a must.

Of course, if they build this they will have something not even Jobs has in his toy box.

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...and the way I type

the glass too.

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ugh...

has everyone forgotten about anti reflective coating????? even gorilla glass makers???

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