I'm not saying this product is good, it's looks interesting but in reality will suck (due to not being able to just close the laptop) but I found when I used to use a windows laptop the touch screen was great.
You just naturally get used to using it for reading documents/email/slack when you are using the laptop portable.
It's specially good when you are on a couch/shit surface where you would normally use the touch pad awkwardly, it's also great when you are "one hand" holding the laptop and then scrolling/showing someone something. I found it also great in the small ass meeting rooms for zoom calls.
> I'm not saying this product is good, it's looks interesting but in reality will suck (due to not being able to just close the laptop)
It's one of those situations where the more seamless they make the experience, the quicker the user will end up totalling either the laptop screen / hinges or the touchscreen. Given the position of the connector and how people generally close laptops, it's the perfect lever to crack something.
To be fair, those keys are missing from many (most?) laptops. Certainly Apple laptops, which also lack the much-more-important Delete key (instead, they only have a Backspace key mislabeled "delete").
Pretty much every school in the US has students using touchscreen Chromebooks. It's funnyish when a young person tries to touch my MacBook screen to do a quick action, and I have to tell them that it's necessary to go to the touchpad, diddle a little to find the cursor, then do a move action to get to get to the target. Dragging is even more puzzling, touch and drag on a screen vs. move, double-tap or ctrl-click, then drag, then tap to release. I'm sure some will help me with faster touchpad methods, but that aside, I've used Mac laptops for 30+ years, and generally feel that those who perceive touchscreens as a gorilla-arm problem just haven't used a touchscreen laptop. They provide a much more efficient interface for some common actions. Touchscreens are so common now that most Windows and Chrome devices have them as the norm. Always strikes me as a bit strange that Apple-priced Mac laptops lack a feature found in low-price competitors.
"Pretty much every school in the US has students using touchscreen Chromebooks."
Pfff, what a laughable claim. Meanwhile, just because people CAN use to learn something doesn't mean it's good. Touchscreen computers, especially laptops, are dumb for a few reasons. They already have a touch interface (the trackpad), and touchscreen on a computer requires dumbed-down interfaces with oversized controls and an M.O. that tolerates your hand and arm blocking your view of what you're trying to work on.
And also the screen's hinges must be (and perpetually remain) stiff enough to sustain people pressing on the screen the whole time.
With people doing so much on phones and tablets now, you can bet that when they fire up a legitimate computer, they want a computer's capabilities. That means a real keyboard, a precision pointing device, and software with a proper computer UI.
I wish there were a way to disable the touchscreen built into my thinkpad, which I never use - except occasionally by accident, when my sleeve brushes it or the like. Why would I want fingerprints on my monitor? Of course I'm not going to touch it.
My significant other uses her touchscreen laptop as a consumption device (for video and prose; a lot of fanfictions!) in the bed (a beefy tablet with a built-in stand resting on her belly, if you will). In that context she's very happy with a touchscreen and is a factor when buying a new laptop (fortunately that Thinkpad X1 Yoga from 2017 is still going strong).
You just naturally get used to using it for reading documents/email/slack when you are using the laptop portable.
It's specially good when you are on a couch/shit surface where you would normally use the touch pad awkwardly, it's also great when you are "one hand" holding the laptop and then scrolling/showing someone something. I found it also great in the small ass meeting rooms for zoom calls.
I wish the MacBook had it.