lot of people have been asking for a touch screen option for the 13 inch framework. Personally I never got why, i remember being given a first gen surface in high school and despising it with a passion, but here you go! Touch screen! Unfortunately it’s not a 13 inch upgrade, but still. Seems like a big part of the focus is as an option for kids at school which is cool.
Seems like it could be good as a drawing tablet, given it has a stylus and all. I’ll stick with my Wacom for now ( thank you Wacom on Linux project!).
@megopie@flork i really hoped it might be an alternative to my lenovo yoga converible, however it is more targeted to the people who would by an chromebook else. Fine, not everyone needs high power laptop. I stick to the normal 13 model
I don’t have one myself yet, but i have heard from a lot of friends and colleagues that as soon as you get a laptop with touch you just instinctively start using it even though they swore before they got it that it wasn’t really useful. So I think it still has its use cases and has a value even for simple stuff like scrolling or quickly selecting menus or buttons for volume, play pause, okay, exit etc. when you don’t have the mouse in your hand already. I can see myself using it when I’m working on something and have the laptop on the side to either read off documents or watching a video or using control software for a machine. People use their laptop for so many different things other than just sitting stationary with a mouse in their hand.
lot of people have been asking for a touch screen option for the 13 inch framework. Personally I never got why, i remember being given a first gen surface in high school and despising it with a passion, but here you go! Touch screen! Unfortunately it’s not a 13 inch upgrade, but still. Seems like a big part of the focus is as an option for kids at school which is cool.
Seems like it could be good as a drawing tablet, given it has a stylus and all. I’ll stick with my Wacom for now ( thank you Wacom on Linux project!).
@megopie @flork i really hoped it might be an alternative to my lenovo yoga converible, however it is more targeted to the people who would by an chromebook else. Fine, not everyone needs high power laptop. I stick to the normal 13 model
Touch screens aren’t useful on laptops that can’t turn into a pseudo-tablet. I guess the 13" can but… Not really.
I am also loathe to think about the screen wobbling complaints given that weak hinges was such a concern.
The laptop isn’t out yet. Give it a bit.
I don’t have one myself yet, but i have heard from a lot of friends and colleagues that as soon as you get a laptop with touch you just instinctively start using it even though they swore before they got it that it wasn’t really useful. So I think it still has its use cases and has a value even for simple stuff like scrolling or quickly selecting menus or buttons for volume, play pause, okay, exit etc. when you don’t have the mouse in your hand already. I can see myself using it when I’m working on something and have the laptop on the side to either read off documents or watching a video or using control software for a machine. People use their laptop for so many different things other than just sitting stationary with a mouse in their hand.