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To be fair, a touchscreen is the one thing I miss moving from my thinkpad to my apple silicon macbook.

Everyone will have different opinions on the matter. My Lenovo has a touch screen, but I hardly ever use it because I forget that it is there. Likewise, it is Wacom compatible and I was as far as picking up the stylus for it. Hardly ever use it. For the most part, I prefer to interact with computers via keyboard.

Different people like interacting with computers in different ways, unfortunately, this one size fits all philosophy that permeates the tech sector creates a lot of tension because those ways of interacting are not necessarily compatible with each other.

> Different people like interacting with computers in different ways, unfortunately, this one size fits all philosophy that permeates the tech sector creates a lot of tension because those ways of interacting are not necessarily compatible with each other.

A touchscreen doesn't detract if you don't use it though. I use my laptop's touchscreen/stylus pretty much exclusively for Japanese writing practice, the rest of the time it's just a regular laptop, but I'd be very sad to not have that feature when I need it.

This would normally be the case but many touchscreen drivers love to glitch out (specially lenovo's) and disabling them is almost impossible with windows updates constantly re-enabling things.

If not for that I would 100% agree it is a nice to have.

I don't know if it has been improved but I had one xps with touch screen, the lid was thicker, the screen had more glare, it was using more battery and there was a visible gray mesh, like a veil covering it if you looked close enough. One other possible annoyance is accidental touches, no chance of that if the screen doesn't have touch capability.

I have an x86 tablet and the screen seems normal although touch

For me, it just feels like a huge waste of money for something I would never use; I assume the touch screen tech bumps the price up a bit. Of course, if you have even an occasional use for touchscreen on a laptop, your mileage is already varying.

>A touchscreen doesn't detract if you don't use it though.

in a perfect world. in the real world it's an added cost-to-repair, another driver stack to worry about, and a loss of nits/lumens for no good reason.

I'm a web developer, and being able to simultaneously test both touch input and traditional KBM without switching contexts. It's also just nice to have and relatively cheap to implement, even if I only use it on occasion outside of development. It allows me to engage with any medium in the best way possible.

Are you the type to be bothered by fingerprints on screens? I am that type, I have great reservations about a touchscreen laptop. Though, I cannot deny how awesome it would be, conceptually.

I think there are finger sleeves that you can put on to avoid that.

A random example from Amazon (never tried it myself):

https://www.amazon.com/PXIRQ-Sleeves-Touchscreen-Sensitive-B...

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