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I agree, a touch-screen on a 'pro' laptop (unless it's a 2-in-1) is useless. Also: Please don't ever, ever touch my laptop's screen.
by dillera 10y ago
I agree, a touch-screen on a 'pro' laptop (unless it's a 2-in-1) is useless.
Also: Please don't ever, ever touch my laptop's screen.
- mason240 10y agoI have a Surface Pro with a touch screen and found it to be very useful and natural to use. The Surface is plugged into a dock for all my heavy work, so I'm not using the screen anyway. If I am using it as a laptop for more internet-browsing related work, the touchscreen is so useful that I don't need a mouse.
- mason240 10y agoI have a Surface Pro with a touch screen and found it to be very useful and natural to use. The Surface is plugged into a dock for all my heavy work, so I'm not using the screen anyway. If I am using it as a laptop for more internet-browsing related work, the touchscreen is so useful that I don't need a mouse.
- partisan 10y agoI had a co-worker who made threats against anyone whose hands came close to his screen. Even pointing at the screen was enough to get a look of death.
- realworldview 10y agoI am that person.
- partisan 10y agoRandall?
- criddell 10y agoI can't stand fingerprints on my monitor, but I don't even notice them on my phone or tablet. Before I got my first touchscreen phone, I was pretty sure the dirty screen would drive me bonkers, but that never happened.
- _JamesA_ 10y agoThat's probably because phones and tablets usually have oleophobic[1] surfaces. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipophobicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipophobicity
- anexprogrammer 10y agoI seem to have oleophobic-proof fingerprints then. I'm constantly cleaning phone screen (swipe on jeans these days now phone is not spanking-new). You could easily see my swipe or pin pattern from prints and smudges, even from one use, which never happened with actual keys.
- newscracker 10y agoThe oleophobic coating does vanish with use over a period of time. That's why you wouldn't see fingerprints and such on a new device, but would on an older and well used one.
- criddell 10y agoMy phone screen is smudged, but it doesn't really bother me. If I spot something on my monitor, I can't get any work done until I have it cleaned off.
- coldtea 10y agoIt's usually because of fear of death, extending to the non acceptance of any decay to the objects one uses. Same kind of people leave the plastic wrap around their remote controls (or worse, car seats).
- john_reel 10y agoIs it really? Is there more that I can read about this?