tekhammer - 4:45 am on Aug 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

kaled touched on this point (no pun intended) citing RSI issues, but even if you don't get RSI from using a touch screen, have you ever tried doing anything that required your arms to be off a resting place for more than a few minutes at a time? Your arms get very tired.

Just try holding your arms up in front of you and time how long it takes for them to start dropping on their own. Add lots of arm movements to that and you're going to be lucky to last a full minute.

Touchscreens are absolutely useless for anything but kiosks where use is short and limited. Or maybe wall mounted monitoring stations in server rooms, hospitals, or anything that will be quick, limited use.