Touch Screen Laptop | Does the iPad Dock Make It The Ultimate Touch Screen Laptop?

It is pretty much a given that when Apple release a new product it will be a gamer changer for the industry. With the release of the iPad, the world of touch screen laptop computing has been blown wide open. Now there is a device that makes touch screen portable and home computing innovative and a pleasure to do.

When touch screen computers first came on to the market they were a bit clunky. Rather than being true touch with the fingers you still had to use a pointing device such as a stylus or more often than not any pointed object that you had to hand. The software was still the same so you were still expected to interact with it in the same way as if you are using a mouse. Now with the iPad, it has been designed based on the very successful iPhone interface that was created to be interacted with using your fingers. This makes the user far more involved in what they are doing on their computer and you are really physically interacting with your device in a way that had only previously been imagined in science fiction.

There is however a criticism to be levied against touch screen only devices. Many people feel that with a physical full sized keyboard they cannot truly replace laptops or computers as devices of choice. While for casual web surfing or looking a photos you don’t really need a physical keyboard, there are still a lot of things that people do on their laptops that require being able to type quickly on a full sized keyboard rather than fumbling about with a touch screen. Without this ability, such devices have never really branched from the tech fan consumers in to the mainstream and business world. Apple have addressed this very well, as they have come up with an iPad dock which enables you to attach a physical keyboard to your device. Now you have the ultimate portable touch screen device with a market leading multi-touch keyboard for portability, but when you want to type a long email or if you need to write a report for work, you can hook it up to a physical keyboard and write away.

Head over to iPad accessories review and you can find out more about these docks as well as all of the other accessories coming out for the iPad. We think that when you combine the portability or the iPad, the increased functionality of hooking it up to other accessories and the innovations of the App store that the iPad is not only the ultimate touch screen laptop, but it could well be the ultimate computing device for the future of the mass market.