lots of good points here. i have to admit i'm speaking from a US-centric place. the M7CL was certainly marketed heavily in this country for the HOW market and general A/V. i remember when i took the Yamaha 2 day PM5D class seeing the new M7's lined up for the guys to look at while we were there. the general consensus among the guys at the class [largely all typical production ProSound guys] was it was kinda toy-like. even i was intrigued, but skeptical.
fast forward to today, and the M7CL has become the new PM4K [i.e. it's the 'rarely preferred but always acceptable' rider console]. and having spent many hours on one, i think it absolutely deserves to be. but i'm still surprised that the ProSound community in this country actually embraced it like they did, if for no other reason than it was just too inexpensive to be true.
i do still think that if yamaha truly thought people were gonna be putting most of these into road cases and hauling them all over the place, i would hope they would have designed the touchscreen to at least collapse in like the PM5D does.
in other news... yeah, the HOW market here in the US is kinda weird. we're so immersed in it, we do sometimes forget that. after all, i work full-time for one of those places now...
i DO really like getting reminded that the universe doesn't actually revolve around my country, even if i sometimes act like it does...