Personally, I hate it. Most of my laptops are non touch: thinkpads, dells. .Even when ram price drops and i could afford the Framework, i would only go for the non pro 13 version. For the ones that came with touchscreen, I disabled it if i can.
Touchscreen just doesnt work for me on a laptop. If i want a touchscreen then i use my tablet or phone.
surprisingly useful to me
The best use I have is if I’m filling on a huge form with lots of checkboxes. Steering the mouse to each one with a track pad is so fiddly compared to just tapping.
And for dragging maps around, where I don’t have to with press to click or tap and hold every drag.
I was given a laptop for work and it has a touchscreen. In fact, you can fold it all the way and use it as a tablet. But I always forget that it can do either.
So, I guess my opinion is that I don’t need or want it.
It can be very useful for quick actions when you don’t have a mouse.
Mine is convertible to tablet mode, which is actually really useful when cooking etc or in small spaces.
Probably wouldn’t have a problem buying one without a touch screen though.
There are two times when i use it -
1 - when the touchpad stops working
2 - i have some work screens that involve checking boxes and signing.
I don’t want fingerprints on my laptop screen.
Certainly interesting that we’re only talking about it when Apple just announced it, after Windows laptops have done it for over a decade.
I had a touch screen laptop once. After the initial novelty of it, I never touched the screen again. And it was the convertible type that could open all the way round and turn into a tablet (keyboard/trackpad were disabled when it was open past a certain point).
I think the more interesting factor is bringing back the glowing logo. And that it’s an OLED. Certainly looks like a nice laptop that tells everyone around “I have ‘fuck you’ money”. I say this as a guy with a MacBook. They aren’t all that expensive. But Apple’s gone and done a wonderful job of telling thieves which one to grab, and it won’t be mine, so that’s a plus.
Only good if the laptop has a proper tablet mode for note-taking/drawing with a pen stored inside a chassis slot. I’ve a non-convertible Thinkpad that for whatever reason has a touchscreen and I end up activating it by accident more than on purpose. It also seems that the additional electric fields associated with the touch functionality makes the screen attract far more dust than any non-touch laptop.
Touchscreens have their use on other devices but are a gimmick on laptops. Reaching up and over your keyboard, suspending your arm in the air while you tap on a thin, wobbly display is an ergonomic disaster and a shite input method in general.
Now if the screen can flip around into a tablet position then it makes a lot more sense, but just a touchscreen on its own is a gimmick.
It’s only useful if the laptop is convertible (screen can flip all the way around & become like a heavy tablet). Particularly useful when I need to run something Android-based. I don’t see the point in a touchscreen you have to reach out over the keyboard to use.
Even then, it’s only useful when you are using a program that doesn’t need the keyboard, and only if you don’t need to use any other programs at the time.
For example, if you are in class and you want to take notes, a separate tablet works a lot better than folding the laptop.
I owned one back in 2013, I think. It was very annoying and I’m sure the tech is better today. Still wouldn’t want one because it is so counter intuitive and extra steps to do something you already could do just fine with a mouse or touchpad.
I had a Chromebook with touchscreen. I’d mostly just use it to tap on links when browsing lying on my back.
But I developed the bad habit of trying to do the same on my work laptop.
I have a touchscreen laptop from work. And I only ever used the touchscreen to actually verify that it has touchscreen. Other than that, I have literally never touched the screen.
I have a refurbished thinkpad t480 i bought a couple of years ago that somehow has a touchscreen.
I only ever touch the screen to clean it, usually when it’s off, so I just forget it has this functionality.
Occasionally someone else touches my screen to point out something and gets a surprise (and I just think get your mucky fingers off my screen, you degenerate!).
There must be a small script that puts a big sign on the screen whenever someone touches it, just to scare them.
If you have to reach out to a screen to touch it, you’re at risk of developing Gorilla Arms, a RMI.
Laptops are hell on your spine. Seriously reconsider.
Never understood touchscreen on laptop. I can imagine artists might need this in some workflows but I doubt they’d use shitty touchscreen instead of specialized tools like stylus or dedicated device. But for everyone else idk when do you even want to use them.
