I recently acquired one thinking it was going to be a cool and useful feature, and the only time I think to use it is when I brush away a loose cat hair and my cursor goes all over the place. And the tablet mode, I think I used it once as a novelty.
Me: so rarely that I keep forgetting it’s a touch screen
My wife and daughter: constantly, so my screen is full of their fingerprints
I had a Surface Pro all through college, and used it for note taking in all my classes (pen on screen), which was fantastic. Haven’t really used the touchscreen function since though, and it’s been quite a few years.
ITT: people hating on touchscreens
Also ITT: people pointing out really good reasons to have a touch screen.
the good reasons: none
Only to answer teams calls because I can hit the notification with my pinkie rather then moving my hand to the mouse.
Pretty much never. Even if my hands are dry and clean, I get annoying marks on the screen.
used to have one. loved it. I hate trackpads and having a touchscreen saved me from cramping the tendons in my hand.
bring back the nipple!
Keyboard clit gang
all the time. sucks to go back.
From the first moment I used a touchscreen laptop, every laptop I have encountered is a touchscreen to my unconcious mind… Doesn’t matter how old, without thinking I just touch that screen.
I use to use mine regularly, it was nice ergonomically to change between the trackpad and touchscreen. My arm needs a rest from being tucked up next to the trackpad. This makes most sense if the laptop is on your actual lap. Can’t do it anymore since my laptop broke.
I honestly forget it had a touchscreen all the time. I grew up before the prevalence of touch screen devices so it never occurs to me that something with a built in physical keyboard could be interacted with that way.
Literally never. Never on purpose, at least.
Sometimes it’s faster than finding the mouse cursor when clicking a link or a button (and when filling in forms with check boxes), but probably my biggest use is if I’m browsing around Google maps or Earth.
Click-drag click-drag on the trackpad is just slow and frustrating compared to just dragging the on-screen image.
I use a macbook sometimes and it’s a bit infuriating when I try to drag the screen.
I don’t use it constantly but I’m used to having the choice whenever I decide it’s easier.
I bought a cheap 8" tablet on eBay many years ago, and really liked using it for college. Then when my regular laptop broke and I had some money, I went for one of those 13" Yoga thinkpads, thinking it would replace both the tablet and the aging laptop.
In the 7 or so years since I bought it, I can count the number of years that I used it on two hands. I’ve used the shitty old 2013 dell tablet more than the touch screen / pen input on the laptop. It mostly lives in a docking station on my desk, or gets used as a regular laptop. It’s just too big to be used as a tablet, period. Cool concept, wasn’t worth the extra money for me.
Work laptop. I use it when I’m sharing my screen and we’re discussing a map or drawing of something. Pretty useful. Especially the pinch zoom function when whatever app I’m using doesn’t have an intuitive zoom function.
Not work laptop. If I’m reading an article on the couch sometimes I’ll scroll down using the touch screen.
Since the battery in the pen stopped charging, almost never now.
I miss having it, I still occasionally forget I don’t have it. I would use it to select tabs, open programs, scroll pages, zoom in and out. I loved it, I’m legit thinking of replacing my current laptop screen with one that is a touch screen.
