Do you use the touchscreen on your touch enabled laptop much?

[airborne]

I have a touch enabled laptop, I thought touch would be pretty handy functionality to have but it turned out to be meh.

In Windows 7 days touch didn't work so great but Windows 8 and now 10 touch integration is awesome but I still find I almost never use the touchscreen. I'm a keyboard shortcuts power user of sorts and I find that to be significantly faster than using a touch screen to manipulate elements, on a tablet/smartphone a touch screen is awesome but on a laptop with a trackpad/keyboard it doesn't seem as useful or necessary.

What is a touch screen on a laptop really handy for apart from the obvious things like drawing?

 

[mister]

Good question... I use a two-in-one at home on occasion, and I quite often find myself touching the screen on non touch laptops! Not sure exactly what I'm using the touch screen for... but it's often easier for me than trying to use a track pad (can't stand them)

 

[CamiKaze]

I use it when scrolling in browsers at times.

 

[DA-LION-619]

Yes. Scrolling, zooming, clicking. It becomes second nature to interact with the UI instead of using a pointing device. Next laptop has to definitely have a touch screen.

 

[The_Librarian]

Had a touch screen laptop.

Did not use it actually until I landed up with viewing program for DSTv, then it was handy for scrolling around.

But the most irritating aspect is when somebody wanted to point out something, the cursor jumped to that spot and it popped up a context menu...

Nah, I'll prefer a touchscreen on a fondleslab...

 

[bwana]

I don't know - smudges on a touchscreen are tolerable but on a laptop… that would drive me mad, especially if I was editing photos.

 

[Necropolis]

I don't have one but if I did I wouldn't use it.

 

[DA-LION-619]

Had a touch screen laptop.

Did not use it actually until I landed up with viewing program for DSTv, then it was handy for scrolling around.

But the most irritating aspect is when somebody wanted to point out something, the cursor jumped to that spot and it popped up a context menu...

Nah, I'll prefer a touchscreen on a fondleslab...

This pisses me off when someone goes at your screen, finger nails and all.
Then the reply is "oh you have a touch screen"

 

[Beachless]

That dirty screen freaks me out, dont touch my screen.

 

[PsYTraNc3]

I've used it a few times on odd occasion when scrolling through things in bed.

When working at my desk at home or office, it's docked with the screen closed.

 

[DominionZA]

XPS 13. Only ever use it for scrolling pages. That's it.

 

[OCP]

Only when my touchpad stops working which only started after upgrading to windows 10

 

[cerebus]

I keep trying to touch the screen on my non-touchscreen laptop

 

[bwana]

I keep trying to touch the screen on my non-touchscreen laptop

You don't know your own laptop isn't touchscreen?

 

[cerebus]

You don't know your own laptop isn't touchscreen?

I do of course, it's just an instinct from using the iPad.

 

[airborne]

I find reaching to the screen and then back to the keyboard takes more time and effort than just using say the arrow keys or a swipe gesture on the touch pad, once in a while I use it to scroll webpages or pause a video but that's about it.

Considering how much extra a touchscreen typically add to the price of a laptop it just doesn't seem worth it.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

when Im using the trackpad and lose the mouse then I use it.
It doesnt count though because my laptop is closed in a docking station 99% of the time.

 

[Jola]

I use it all the time.

 

[jax_maxit]

I use it for dragging and dropping items or windows. Also on the rare occasion on some form submission pages where pressing the Enter key has no effect.

 

[calypso]

XPS 13. Only ever use it for scrolling pages. That's it.

Likewise. Never use it. Wish I could have gotten the non touch 1080 version. Battery life ftw.