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That is great!

On the topic of touchscreen Macbooks, I've been using my Mac a lot less since I've spent a lot of time on a touchscreen Windows laptop. It is super handy! A lot of times when using the Mac I'll absentmindedly drag something on the screen only to be disappointed. Apple's resistance to the idea reminds me of their stubbornness on the single button mouse. Admitting you're wrong is not a weakness.

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I don't miss it. While working I hate finger grease on my MacBook screen much more than I do on my iPhone or iPad. Also, my wife has a Surface laptop with touch screen and she never uses it.

Yes! Takes me back to the mid-90s when my then 12-year-old daughter would point out things on my computer screen BY TOUCHING THEM drove me NUTS!

Touchscreens, like RGB lights or a numpad, are one of those things I specifically want my laptop to not have, regardless of if it can be disabled. I don't want to have to pay extra for it, I don't want the battery hit, and I don't want something designed by someone who thinks it's useful. All the touchscreen laptops I've seen have poor picture quality and the actual screen looks recessed from the glass, making it jarring to look at. It's not a good workflow for me to have to take my hands off of home row to navigate either - I do all my mousing with a thumb on the trackpad.

Are you saying that because you don't want it I can't have it?

What hardware do you have? All the touchscreen windows laptops I've tried have the responsiveness and accuracy of a touchscreen from 1990.

Resistive touchscreens which were dominant in 1990 typically have higher accuracy than the capacitive touchscreens of today. But they have terrible usability because you have to apply pressure to the screen to use them.

Have you tried the Dell XPS? Even with shitty linux touchscreen drivers/experience I end up using it almost every day when scrolling. On Windows it felt very natural.

I think Apple is trying to push folks to iPad Pros since they're touch capable and now support a mouse.

For some reason I really like hitting the 'submit' button via the touchscreen after filling out a web form.

Apple sells products, not hacks. Apple doesn't clutter their SKUS with niche features that work poorly are almost never useful. Adding touch to a laptop or desktop just so you can occasionally touch scroll is deeply overkill.

They sell iPads that are touch-enabled, that work well with touch.

how does the battery life compare to the touch enabled windows laptops?

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