Touchscreen actually useful

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I swear I searched but couldn't find anything.

Who has a touchscreen laptop and actually uses the touchscreen? I've struggled to get my head round when this would be useful. People have mentioned forward/back in web browsers, pinch to zoom and scrolling/panning but these are all much quicker and less strenuous with a touchpad.

Do you use yours and, if so, how?
 
I have a hybrid tablet/laptop and honestly don't use the touchscreen much at all while using it like a laptop though do obviously when using it like a tablet. Though it can be useful for stuff like Spotify, etc.
 
Had a surface pro 6 at my last workplace and other than a bit of messing around when I got it I never used the touch screen. Even though its actually an excellent implementation of it. Also never used the £100 pen, other than messing around a bit.
 
I have a hp spectre x360 (The one with kaby lake g/vega) and I use the pen and touch in photoshop all the time. I'm faster and more accurate with the pen than I could ever be with the mouse.
 
I'm another that would not miss the touchscreen if it was't there and when spec'ing a gaming laptop that was most definitely ditched as a requirement!

Vince has a good use case that I might consider, however, I use wacom tablets on my desktop for photo editing as a large monitor is paramount for me (my workflow at least!).
 
I have a Surface Laptop, and use the touchscreen a fair bit, usually when using maps or image viewers...I could live without it though.
 
I only really use the touchscreen on my work Surface Pro (used as a laptop) when i'm walking around using the device, the keyboard/touch cover is useless unless its on a flat surface.

I rarely use the touchscreen on my Thinkpad x280, i wouldn't miss not having it.
 
dulcificum said:
I swear I searched but couldn't find anything.

Who has a touchscreen laptop and actually uses the touchscreen? I've struggled to get my head round when this would be useful. People have mentioned forward/back in web browsers, pinch to zoom and scrolling/panning but these are all much quicker and less strenuous with a touchpad.

Do you use yours and, if so, how?
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Any kind of design stuff, a laptop touchscreen is very very helpful. Everything else not so much.
 
I had a Lenovo Yoga 510 not long ago and I used the touchscreen a lot, was my first laptop like it and figured would I ever use it, but when it’s a flip style I could stand it up and use the tablet mode for Netflix/YouTube, I did use it to type on browsers, it wasn’t bad, only thing I didn’t do was get a drawing pen for it, I’m looking again for another laptop similar to save buying a graphics tablet ha.

If you find a use for a feature then it will be handy to you, but I don’t see the point of touchscreen on a laptop that doesn’t fold or detach as it just seems stupid.
 
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