News - Touch-enabled notebook trend is on the up, as are panel prices

[HEXUS]

NPD DisplaySearch details what PC brands are looking to improve, in order to boost sales.

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[aidanjt]

I'm sure 99.9% of those sales were coincidentally-came-with-laptop rather than ZOMG I MUST HAVE TOUCHSCREEN LAPTOP! With the 0.1% technology enthusiast crowd dying to try it out hoping it'll ever actually be useful.

[scaryjim]

You know, I love it when these so-called "industry experts" decide to extrpolate sales figures 5 years int the future from a single reference base figure. I'd be willing to put money down that by 2017 at least 40% of all notebooks *available* will have touchscreens

Of course, Intel mandated that this year's Ultrabook(tm)s had to have touchscreen, which will have helped bump the market share for touch enabled notebooks significantly.

[Platinum]

As above, sales are going to go up if thats all thats offered..