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A good touch device makes good use of touch, Surface Book 2/3 were AMAZING with their designs and dimensions taking into account when someone would stop typing and simply put their hands on the top right and scroll, or when it'd be faster to switch/close windows via right hand touch than using cursor
That said, a laptop that can work just as well with-or-without touch, probably wasn't designed with "touch" in mind and was simply added as an after thought
So buy a touch-first laptop and you'd be amazed how it seeps into your daily life/usage -
@azuredivay Yep, I should have specified I was talking about premium developer laptops, not touch-first devices.
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It might be convenient if you used it on a train or somewhere else where you can't use a mouse.
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I for one love my touch 4k xps13! I'm tapping it every day. Switching to non-touch work lappy is an annoying exercise
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My previous laptop was a touchscreen Dell inspiron 5557. The catch? No screen protection or hard glass of any kind, just capacitive foil on top of an LCD. It took 3 months for dead spots to start appearing.
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myss44592yMost useless option #1 for me is the 2nd small screen of nonstandard dimensions above function keys, like on zenbook duo..
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@bigmonsterlover exactly, when you don't have a mouse. Maybe I would still take a nipple before a touch screen.
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james2k322yAt least 75% of the use my touchscreen laptop sees is from roommates sneaking up behind me and closing my tabs. I should probably disable it tbh.
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Second most useless premium laptop feature: 4k resolution (see ao https://techradar.com/news/...)
Most useless premium laptop feature: touch screen.
For my new Lenovo I saved hundreds of dollars because I opted for the second best screen option. Lower resolution WQXGA (2560 x 1600) 165Hz, beacuse the 4K touch enabled fancy schmancy screen of my current Dell XPS 15 has barely been used. I keep Outlook open on it FFS, and I can probably count on one hand the number of times I have used the touch feature 😖
Is it just me?
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inappropriately touching screens