• Do I need a touchscreen?

    Posted on November 7, 2015 at 06:03 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    An interesting question from reader BB:

    Woody, I am a happy win 7 home premium user with an HP Pavilion dv7 laptop, 64 bit, I5 intel core.  I am following your recommendations about waiting to upgrade.  My question is should I purchase a new touchscreen laptop for windows 10 vs. updating my older HP to windows 10 Home?  I probably won’t be using the pro versions unless you advise it.  What features of windows 10 would I be losing without a touch screen?  Really appreciate all you do for all of us out here in the dark. 

    Take it as a given that I’m cheap. That said, I wouldn’t buy a new machine until the old one starts driving you nuts. The choice to make the leap to Win10 is yours – it’s a very good operating system (about to get better, this coming week) with some notable flaws. Mostly, you need a different mindset to use it:

    > Microsoft will keep track of what you do, and serve up ads accordingly. If you’ve ever used the Chrome browser, you’ve already seen that kind of behavior.

    > You don’t have any choice about accepting patches. As long as Microsoft keeps serving up decent patches — which has been the case for the past four or five months — that’s no problem. It may make you anxious though, if you realize that the patches are barely documented,, and appear without warning.

    As for the touch screen – I find myself actually using the touch screen from time to time, if I have one available. Most of my work is mouse and keyboard-based, but sometimes I reach out and press buttons instead of fumbling for the trackpad. For some people a touch screen is a godsend. My son’s using one right now to learn to draw letters. Some folks need touch screens in their work. By and large, though, I find myself using an iPad or Android tablet or phone if I really want a touch screen.

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