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Does it smudge less? Only real benefit I can see... Anyone here actually use a touchscreen notebook?

I do not think that many use touchscreen laptops yet. Though it think that in due time there will be touch screen desktops, and the process to making the glass screens is incremental. It will eventually get to big screens but smaller touch screens are the first step.

Can't say I've ever had any issues with Gorilla glass being scratched on any phones I've had in the past. Though I guess progress is progress.

Same here but then I am very careful with my phone.

In not. I'm on my second phone with Gorilla Glass. They've been treated quite badly at times and they've never scratched.

I am careful because I do not know yet if I will keep my phone for years or sell it as soon as possible to upgrade.

I am careful because it cost hundreds of pounds.

Yes but I took that as read! I

Yes, well, it is a hybrid, so I can pull the screen out of the keyboard dock and use it as a tablet.

There have been touch screen desktops since the 80s. My first touch screen PC, in 1987, was a battered old HP 150 PC, with hi-res green screen and an integrated printer in the top of the screen.

We've been selling touch screen Windows machines with 19" screens for half a decade.

There are now dozens of desktop all-in-ones with touch screens and there are a lot of separate touch screen monitors popping up.

I knew that some banks had touch screen computers but not who made them. After a couple of years using an iPad I now find myself trying to touch the screen to move things about.

Touch screen laptops will need to be weighted better to stop them rocking when you touch the screen. If you have a laptop, try touching the screen with the same kind of force you’d tap your phone or tablet. The direction they are going in means that they will get smaller, thinner and lighter. To counter that force, you’d need them to suddenly get heavier, put much stronger springs in the hinge and possibly suction cups to fix them to the desk.

As with desktop machines the notion of a touch screen seems at odds with ergonomics. Think about how often you manipulate objects on a screen with your mouse. Now translate that to actually touching the screen to achieve the same results. You’ll end up with what is known as “gorilla arm” - that is, your arms will feel unnaturally heavy and tired.

If you want a touch screen computer, you need to rethink the screen. It may have to occupy the same kind of space as your keyboard does at the moment. Think of drawing boards artists and designers use. It would have to be at a fairly shallow incline, would certainly have to deal with more than fingers resting on it (people will lean on them more than you would expect), and the filth and grease you’d get on them (especially in this weather) would need addressing.

An example:

OK, so the posture may be wrong and you’d have to increase the incline a bit, but to stop arm aches and the accompanying fatigue, the notion of making what we have already “touchable” is a red herring. A complete rethink of what a desktop computer is will have to be done. I think this is the reason why we’ve not seen touch capable computers being the next big thing. So far, no one has cracked it to the point where it’s a complete game changer.