No one can deny, especially Apple fans, that the Cupertino-based company is doing everything it can to make the iPad the best portable computer on the market, even above the MacBook range. However, despite the fantastic power and the OLED screen, it is still managed by iPadOS, with limitations that still do not convince users who want to make the jump.
The logical thing would be for Apple to follow the same path as Microsoft, implementing MacBook models with a touch screen to offer the same versatility that the iPad offers without the limitations of iPadOS, however, according to the company led by Tim Cook, the path they should Following both products would converge and that is not what Apple is looking for.
While Apple’s offices are deciding whether the time has come to implement touch screens in the MacBook range, a technology enthusiast, Michael MJD, has published a video on YouTube where he shows what he has been spending his time on in recent weeks.
MacBook with Windows XP and touch screen
Windows XP hit the market in 2001 and for a decade it has no longer received the love of Microsoft, at least officially, since the company founded by Bill Gates offered extended support for companies and organizations that got caught by not updating. their computers in time to adapt to the new version of Windows that replaced it: Windows Vista.
The MacBook model used to carry out this experiment is from 2011, a computer with an Intel processor, so installing Windows XP has not been a problem since this has always been possible through Apple’s Boot Camp, a function that, With the launch of models with Apple ARM processors it disappeared.
So far so good. Changing the MacBook screen for a touch panel did not represent a serious problem in carrying out the project, a panel modified by Lingrahica with functions designed to improve accessibility.
Windows XP Tablet Edition
The problem here was getting the drivers to work so that the computer could work with Windows XP with a touch screen. Although many users are unaware of it, Windows XP also came to the market in a Tablet PC Edition version, a version that was launched in 2005.
This version of Windows was not sold independently, so Michael had to make various modifications to the license so that Windows XP would recognize that it was installed on a device with a touch panel in order to enable this special version, since it was included within the normal version.
Through the Internet Archive, he was able to locate a Windows driver to operate the panel, a panel that, unlike what one might initially expect, did not need to be calibrated at any time, since it worked from the first moment during the installation process.
The touch panel works without any problem with all the applications of this version of Windows designed for the touch interface, so the process was finally not as complicated as I had initially thought, although that does not mean that it was a piece of cake as we can see. in the video that we can find above.
