Touchscreen Laptop?

lilmissmup

Hello all my techie friends hoping you can help me.

I am looking for a laptop due to space constraints at my Fathers where I am living now but I hate the mouse pads on them, main reason I have never had one.

I have spotted one laptop with a touchscreen which sounds better for me due to my mouse hate.

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/597880/ACER-AS5738PG

But I was wondering if anyone knows of any better ones or any other mouse easier laptops? I know I can get a wireless mouse but might not always have room to have that out as well although I would prob get one too.

Looking forward to your helpful responses

ses6jwg

You will get used to the mouse pad after a while.

It seems silly to me to be paying a £2-300 premium for a touch screen option.

penrhyn

Bad enough having a dirty keyboard, a smudgy screen would drive me up the proverbial.
.........and which Muppet decided that glossy screens would be a good idea for laptops?
You can buy very small mice is space is that much of a problem.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TeckNet-Optical-800dpi-Scroll-Laptop/dp/B0015Y6VWQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1260792295&sr=8-6

oldagetraveller

penrhyn wrote: »

l.
.........and which Muppet decided that glossy screens would be a good idea for laptops?

Also glossy (piano) black screen surrounds which you only have to look at long enough for them to scratch/mark!:mad:

jackieblack

If you don't like the mousepad, why not just plug in a mouse?

kwikbreaks

I really doubt that a touchscreen laptop is going to provide the delicacy of control to completely avoid using the touchpad. I hate touchpads too so just use either a BT or plugin mouse. Possibly a rollerball would suit you - they require virtually no space but I find them to be as bad as touchpads.

On the fingerprint magnet front - my netbook has a glossy casing which would no doubt look brilliant in a sales cabinet but looks pretty minging after just opening and closing the wretched thing a few times.

[Deleted User]

Ever tried a trackball? That might help. Touchscreen laptops sound annoying and expensive

RSI to the max!

kwikbreaks

ringo_24601 wrote: »

trackball

Ahhh - that was the word I meant.

Marty_J

I imagine it would get tiring waving your arms around in front of your face all day. I remember watching this bit in Minority Report, and thinking "what a stupid way to use a computer".

Touch sensitive controls make sense in a handheld device (i.e. something you naturally touch with your hands), but not for computer screens.

Of course, Apple will release one, and then I'll want it. :rolleyes:

D.K.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens from work....it has a pen (and a micro thread cloth for the smudges...it works well). You can even write on the screen and it prints.

I use this facility very rarely, it really feels awkward and cumbersome. I did ask the price from a colleague and they said around £1,500. At that price I wouldn't recommend the laptop, but the cloth is great.