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10-18-2015 09:54 AM
Am looking for a new laptop. At first I thought I would want a touch screen because I use my iPad so much, and it might be better with Win 10, and I'm also used to enlarging anything I want to by touch.
But - of course the touch screen laptops are more expensive, by $100+. And I have been reading that most touch pads now are multi-gesture and work like I'm used to on the iPad.
So - anyone who bought a touch screen laptop and finds they don't use it much? Anyone loving their touch screen laptop? Tell me why - thanks!
10-18-2015 11:14 AM
My touch screen laptop was only ~$40 more than the non-touch. I'm running Win 8.1. Usually, I use the mouse, but there are times when the touch is much more convenient. I'm glad I have touch but am not sure I would have gone this route had it been $100 more.
10-18-2015 11:24 AM
@nomless wrote:My touch screen laptop was only ~$40 more than the non-touch. I'm running Win 8.1. Usually, I use the mouse, but there are times when the touch is much more convenient. I'm glad I have touch but am not sure I would have gone this route had it been $100 more.
Thanks for your input. If I was buying Win 8 I would have definitely wanted a touchscreen!
Looking at the specs I want and depending on the mfg, the running price for Win 10 machines seems to be $100 minimum difference up to $150 between touch screen and non. I'm thinking I most likely won't appreciate it $100 worth :-)
I have the chance today to get a steal - $150 off what others are charging for the same specs - but w/o touch screen. But part of me wonders if I'd miss it.
10-18-2015 12:48 PM
I bought a touch screen laptop last Fall, but find I use the touch screen feature much less than I expected. I love my NOOK, so thought I'd use the touch screen on the laptop frequently. I don't like having to clean off the fingerprints on the bigger laptop screen before I watch a show or movie on-line! Would not spend the extra dollars on the laptop touch screen feature again.
10-18-2015 01:02 PM
@janmcd wrote:I bought a touch screen laptop last Fall, but find I use the touch screen feature much less than I expected. I love my NOOK, so thought I'd use the touch screen on the laptop frequently. I don't like having to clean off the fingerprints on the bigger laptop screen before I watch a show or movie on-line! Would not spend the extra dollars on the laptop touch screen feature again.
Yep - I find cleaning the small screen a PITA, I had been thinking that cleaning a larger one wouldn not please me.
Thanks! I'm off later to see what I can get.
10-18-2015 02:11 PM
I have it on my work computer and never use it. Or I should say, never intentionally use it. I tend to touch my screen and it always shocks me when it moves. My home computer doesn't have it, but my kindle does. I don't miss it on my home computer.
10-18-2015 02:21 PM
@Moonchilde wrote:
@nomless wrote:My touch screen laptop was only ~$40 more than the non-touch. I'm running Win 8.1. Usually, I use the mouse, but there are times when the touch is much more convenient. I'm glad I have touch but am not sure I would have gone this route had it been $100 more.
Thanks for your input. If I was buying Win 8 I would have definitely wanted a touchscreen!
Looking at the specs I want and depending on the mfg, the running price for Win 10 machines seems to be $100 minimum difference up to $150 between touch screen and non. I'm thinking I most likely won't appreciate it $100 worth :-)
I have the chance today to get a steal - $150 off what others are charging for the same specs - but w/o touch screen. But part of me wonders if I'd miss it.
For $150 less, no, I don't think you'd miss touch. It sounds like a great buy! Good luck.
10-18-2015 04:41 PM
@nomless wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@nomless wrote:My touch screen laptop was only ~$40 more than the non-touch. I'm running Win 8.1. Usually, I use the mouse, but there are times when the touch is much more convenient. I'm glad I have touch but am not sure I would have gone this route had it been $100 more.
Thanks for your input. If I was buying Win 8 I would have definitely wanted a touchscreen!
Looking at the specs I want and depending on the mfg, the running price for Win 10 machines seems to be $100 minimum difference up to $150 between touch screen and non. I'm thinking I most likely won't appreciate it $100 worth :-)
I have the chance today to get a steal - $150 off what others are charging for the same specs - but w/o touch screen. But part of me wonders if I'd miss it.
For $150 less, no, I don't think you'd miss touch. It sounds like a great buy! Good luck.
It was a toss-up between a couple of different machines. It's not my dream machine but it was cheeeap!
Bought a Dell 15.6" i7 with 6GB memory, 1 TB HD and DVD drive for $499, on sale at BB while they last. No backlit keyboard and no touch screen, and not the screen I wanted, but for as much as I will use it and what it will mostly be used for, it was too good to pass up. Typing on it now.
10-18-2015 05:28 PM - edited 10-18-2015 06:38 PM
Yay, @Moonchilde, it sounds great. Mine is a Dell from BB, too, and I, too, purchased it because it was inexpensive.
Have fun!
10-19-2015 06:04 AM
@Moonchilde, come back and tell us what you bought and what you think of it pls. LM
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