[marssaxman]

I sure hope there's a way to disable the touchscreen. My ThinkPad has one, and I hate it. I never want to touch the screen on purpose, so its only function is to unexpectedly move my cursor when my sleeve or something brushes too close.

[znpy]

I first had the touchscreen on my current x13 gen1 amd, which is overall a shitty laptop with crappy linux support.

It’s… okay-ish. I occasionally use it as it’s comfortable to scroll with my finger when I’m using my laptop on the couch.

HOWEVER: i rarely do that but the touchscreen is drawing power all the time.

I’d have preferred a non-touch display…

[alwillis]

> I sure hope there's a way to disable the touchscreen

Apple is usually good at letting users turn off most features.

The article suggests the touchscreen will be a secondary input mode and the keyboard + trackpad (or mouse) will still be the primary mode of interaction.

[xattt]

That’s adding a secondary feature to turn off to the BOM.

[mobilio]

I have Chromebook with touchscreen. It's great to mix trackpad and touchscreen.

But after heavy use display became dirty because of human fat that remain on screen. I didn't notice similar things in iPhone/iPad however.

[simonh]

I suspect it's that phone and iPad screens do get dirty that way, but they're very easy to regularly wipe clean compared to a laptop screen, to the extent that it's not as noticeable that we're doing it.

[WalterGR]

iPhones and iPads have oleophobic coatings. Does your Chromebook?

[Archit3ch]

> I never want to touch the screen on purpose

VCV modular would be fun with touch screen. :D