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.

I don’t really need it most of the time, but I miss it when I don’t have it.

If it’s a convertible it has its uses I guess considering you can turn it into essentially a big tablet, although I don’t like the keyboard being exposed on the bottom…

If it’s an ordinary laptop I really don’t see the point; among other issues it just feels awful to try and make more or less precise inputs when the screen hinge is actively fighting you by moving the screen back with every touch.

Then there are the smudges. I watch a lot of videos and stuff on my laptop and just can’t stand when the screen is all gunged up, it’s disgusting.

I don’t like them. Anytime someone who uses one goes to use one of my normal laptops, they always try to touch the screen, which leaves fingerprints.

If you want a touchscreen, get a tablet.

first of all, my fat fingers would never be able to select a cell. second of all, my old collegues were always poking my screen when they tried to show me something, and moved everything around. i ran to the it dude after the 3rd poke accident if i could disable the touchscreen somehow in device manager…he is like: dude i couldnt care less what you do with that laptop, just disable it in the bios, its easier.

I got one because i thought i could replace my drawing pad but it does not work as a replacement, you can normally turn it off though

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.

It’s convenient when there’s no mouse. Moving around on a trackpad can be slow and annoying. But not super necessary for me.

Every screen should be a touchscreen. We have kids growing up with touchscreen devices who then have to learn not all screens respond to touch even though it’s showing the same stuff. And it’s not just content but apps too. Microsoft has been pushing touchscreen PCs for years, trying to convince developers to build for them, bringing in support for Android apps. Apple waits years to ship a touchscreen on a MacBook that can run every iPhone and iPad app natively.

Yes please.
I despise touchpads on laptops.
Happens more than once I touch the screen instinctively.
A mouse makes it bearable at least.

I mean, it sounds like a good feature on paper, and it’s perfectly doable. Tablets have add-on keyboards, old phones had slide out keyboards, so touchscreens + keyboards IS a thing.

But, touchscreens on laptops? Nope. People don’t want that.

I only ever use touchscreen in tablet mode, and I’m only ever in tablet mode if I’m reading comics while eating lunch. Without a tablet mode, I find it pointless on laptops because I can be more efficient with keyboard and mouse/trackpad.

So… it depends. If it’s a normal laptop I’m not SUPER interested in it but don’t hate it. I do use the track pad a lot so if that was messing up I could use the touch screen. But normally I won’t use it in laptop mode. The depends is a 2 in 1. If I can flip it over and use it as a tablet I will do that. How nice it is depends on software tho in that case. A nice gesture based experience like Gnome would be great. But I doubt I’d enjoy doing that on windows. I haven’t used windows in years but I imagine a touchscreen on it would be not very intuitive.

So the Framework Pro 13 annoys me since it can’t flip all the way around. I actually am considering making a cyberdeck with an existing framework 13 mainboard I have and a framework pro screen and making it into a tablet form factor but nice and thick with plenty of ports and maybe a CD player. I’d love something like that.

I use it for drawing