Another patent application surfaces showing the iMac maker is at least thinking about a way to incorporate its touch interface with its desktop lineup. Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers ...

Apple has never officially released a Mac with a touch screen, but it turns out you could acquire a 15-inch Mac with a 3D touch screen back in 1999. As IGN reports, the Mac in question is the 15-inch ...

Two remarkable things appear in a recent Michael MJD video. One is an iMac G3 from 1999 that responds to not just touchscreen taps and drags, but also touch pressure. The other is a sticker on the ...

Touchscreen Mac rumors are not new, but it turns out that neither are touchscreen Macs. In 1999, a company called Elo produced and sold touchscreen versions of the iMac G3 through Apple's Value Added ...

Apple is apparently embarking on a touch-screen frenzy, taking the technology that made its now-iconic iPhone and iPad best-sellers and putting into an iMac, according to a patent application Apple ...

Although Apple has long rejected the concept of a touchscreen iMac or MacBook, and for good reason, there was one product which made us wonder whether there might be a role for such a device: the ...

In brief: Microsoft has long boasted that the touchscreen abilities of Windows-based laptops give them an advantage over Apple's Macs. But it seems there once really was a touchscreen iMac, though it ...

I've long thought that bringing touch UI to Macs is going to be a challenge, not just because Mac OS X UI isn't touch-centric but due to the upright screen problem. In short: touch UI on an upright ...

If a patent published recently in Europe is any indication, Apple is planning to build computers that combine touch screen capabilities of the iPad with traditional mouse and keyboard interfaces on ...

Everything’s going the way of touchscreen nowadays — from smartphones and GPS devices to tablets and PCs, the “click” is very quickly being replaced by the “swipe.” The problem with this trend is that ...