Touchscreen All In One

Considering treating myself to a Touchscreen All in One Desktop.

Just wondered who has one and what you think. Do you regret buying it or not.

just get a touchscreen monitor and spend the rest on a good desk top that can be upgraded in later years

turner brown said:

just get a touchscreen monitor and spend the rest on a good desk top that can be upgraded in later years

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Missed that option Cheers TB

My Dell laptop is touch screen. Thought it would be good for watching films when hooked up to the TV, but I've gone so far as to disable it as an input in device manager.

Unless you need to draw on the screen on a regular basis - CAD, PS, Illustrator etc - the keyboard and mouse are always closer. For example; why lean across the keyboard to press on the screen to pause a youtube video, when the space bar is half the distance...

I agree 100% with @little pob, I got a nice HP laptop recently and rarely if ever use the touch screen. Apart from it being a stretch compared with kb & mousepad, using it just means you have to wipe greasy fingerprints off it all the time. And no, I am not OCD, I just find the smudges distracting. Kinda wish I'd gone for a cheaper / better spec than sticking out for the touchscreen. Load of hype IMO.

Touchscreen for anything other than handheld devices, or for specialised applications (e.g. retail), is a complete technological dead-end imho.Microsoft have really dropped the ball on this. Who wants a screen covered in sticky fingerprints?

hand gesture will be the future that will replace touchscreens
I had a little play with the Kinect and was thinking about building it in to a van system I was building
for a mate but we couldn't get it to work right as was to close to us for incar use

Thanks Guys. Roll on Black Friday to hopefully get some decent deals on parts to self build

Hi Cressi

In the past I have always built the latest and biggest at the time, but as my demands have decreased but I still needed something with power and storage which I found in this machine, with the added advantage of NOT having wires and cables all over place. Plus I am not a fan of laptops .....
I will have to say at this time I do NOT use the touch screen I didn't buy it for that it was just part of the deal included ....
The other thing I will say it is a disadvantage only having one hard drive for multitasking ie writing DVDs and transferring to NAS Drive at the same time is not good which was OK when 2 drives are used and the data on them were split, I have got round this by adding a fast USB 3 hard drive, which improves it vastly.



As far as the comment on Win 8.1 that is down to personal choice I neither condone nor condemn as allot of people like to spout about I have been using Computers since before Windows and have been through EVERY Version (Yes I am that OLD ) from the very start to the very latest and each version as been complained about

To finish I am enjoying the fact I have a tidy set up in a small footprint which suits me at the moment whether it lasts like this depends what turns up next in computer tech

For me it is a Yes with no regrets at this time ....

We have a bunch of these Dell Inspiron touch screen PC as school though I think they are Pentium based rather than i3. O/S is Windows 8 and 8.1. The kids love them and they work quite nicely with Windows 8. However when I am working on them I rarely touch the screen except to do things like access charms. I can imagine if you are using it for multimedia or something it might be useful but easier to get a remote in that situation.

As you can imagine, its built around laptop components so not the fastest thing in the world and obviously pretty much all upgrades are going to be external.

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