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.
My work laptop has a touch screen, the only time I’ve used the touch screen function is by accident and closed a chrome window that had about 15 mins of work I lost.
it’s not an antifeature (trivial to disable) so i’m ok with it.
my laptop has an extremely shitty trackpad that sometimes decides to stop functioning until a power cycle, so i have the touchscreen configured to work like a trackpad with xf86 mtrack driver and use it when my trackpad fucks up.
If it’s a convertible and there’s a good stylus for it, it’s really convenient. I frequently take screenshots and use the stylus to write notes and make sketches on them. Couldn’t work without it.
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 find it pretty great for idly browsing the internet or otherwise passively consuming content. reading, videos, social media like you’d do on a phone. they can do well with notes if you don’t mind mixing typed and written notes.
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 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 hate anything with touchscreens. Delayed feedback. Ugly interfaces.
I had a touch screen laptop for work at my previous job. I figured it out by accident after using for 4 years without noticing. I though “huh, that’s cool. This could be useful”, and then never actually used it for anything. I rate it a “meh” out of 10.
Four years without noticing? That’s a funny story, and something I’d definitely do too. They change our laptops every few years so you might have never noticed at my job.
I don’t really see the point in touchscreens, I think it’s just a toy for a lot of money, like folding phones.only if you know exactly why you need it, then it’s OK, but most people will just use this feature and stop, because I don’t even know how convenient it is to draw in it, and whether it will damage the screen for a long time.
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.
It’s worse than using a mouse. Why would anyome want to reach that far to use it? It’s useless for a laptop. I can see why it’s used for an ipad.
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.
I habe a Framework 12. I habe not used the Touchscreen in Laptop mode once. I use it in Tablet mode to read sheet music, but even then I usually have a little Bluetooth Keyboard/Trackpad combo that I use.
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.
This. I am totally anal about any specs or spots on my screens. Smudgy fingerprints are an abomination.
I don’t want fingerprints on my laptop screen.
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.
