News - Touchscreen notebook growth accelerates

[HEXUS]

Manufacturer yields have improved so costs have come down.

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Not by choice though, forcing the bloody things on us, If I want a touch enabled device ill buy a tablet thank you.

[Scribe]

I've played around with a few at work. Most of the time they're completely pointless, but there's the odd moment, spurred on by smartphone use I think, where you just naturally lunge for the screen and it's nice to get a response. I actually found this habit more compelling in the old days with my XDA Pro and Windows CE as it was a similar task bar and would at times hammer my laptop screen and wonder why nothing was happening.

So I'm not against touch-screens on notebooks, as long as they're not having a huge impact on the cost, because they don't have huge usefulness. Naturally they'll continue to be driven by notebooks that can fold/slide/unclip/twist into tablets either way.