Jul 03, 2024
The most popular touch-screen laptops offer a seemless and engaging experience regardless of the input type: touchscreen or keypad.
They’re usually paired with vibrant, responsive displays that sit atop a 360-degree hinge to allow for a laptop-cum tablet experience.
Luckily, PC operating systems have been groomed to accommodate this new interface. The Mac remains an outlier but even Apple is rumoured to be working on such a project slated to be executed by 2025.
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Regardless, Windows 11 and the Chromebook should have no issues running through such an arrangement.
Thanks to technology, displays have gotten better, laptops become smaller and components more powerful.
Here’s a list of the top four touchscreen laptop you should buy this year:
Top 4 touchscreen laptops for 2024
1. Dell XPS 15 OLED
- Display: 15.6-inch OLED touchscreen (3,456 x 2,160 pixels)
- CPU: Intel Core i7-13700H
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
- RAM: 32 GB
- Storage: 1TB SSD
The Dell XPS 15 has rightfully garnered quite the fame. It features fast processing speeds, a portable design and a pretty good thin-bezelled touch-screen.
Offered at a mid-range price point of around $400, what adds to its appeal is that the device can be fitted with a 3.5K OLED display. This makes the display even more striking, in case of smudging, a simple-screen cleaner can do the job.
Besides the screen itself, the laptop is a decent purchase, as it can be configured with Intel CPUs or NVIDIA’s RTX 40 Series GPUs, kitting it out into a decent gaming laptop, though the sub-10 hour battery life is a bit of a bummer.
2. Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro 360
- Display: 13.3- or 15.6-inch 1080p Super AMOLED
- CPU: Intel Core i7
- RAM: 8-16 GB
- Storage: 256 GB - 1 TB
Samsung’s Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 puts up a powerful kick, as it features a beautiful AMOLED display, a speedy CPU and decent battery life.
For those unfamiliar with the Galaxy eco-system, the Samsung bloatware might be a bit of an annoyance. However, this 2-in-1 is a sleek yet powerful convertible, a good choice, especially for Samsung users.
3. Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2
- Display: 14.4-inch 120 Hz touchscreen (2400 x 1600 pixels)
- CPU: 13th Gen Intel Core i7
- GPU: Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050-4060 GPU
- RAM: 16-64 GB
- Storage: 512GB - 2TB SSD
The MacBook-style design of the Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 is eye candy, especially paired with the hinged display. This one in particular is the company’s flagship device for Windows 11, its namesake for a more inviting UI.
Under the hood, it features a 13th Gen Intel CPU with 16GB of RAM, more than decent for regular work and play.
Though splurging a little could get the model with the NVIDIA RTX 4050 OR 4060 GPU, turning the device into a suitable gaming or video-editing laptop.
The Studio 2 experience can be enhanced with a stylus. Although the Microfot Slim Pen 2 is a separate buy altogether, its haptic feedback makes drawing or writing on the 14.4-inch 120Hz display feel seemless.
Design aside, the device is a little expensive and even when kitted out, delivers sub-par performance compared to the best Macbooks and Windows in the world.
4. Microsoft Surface Laptop 4
- Display: 13.5-inch 2256 x 1504 touchscreen
- CPU: 11-Gen Intel Core i5/i7 | Ryzen 5/7 4000-series
- GPU: Integrated Intel Iris Xe or Radeon graphics
- RAM: 8GB to 32GB
- Storage: 256GB to 1TB SSD
When looking for a premium Windows touch-screen laptop, the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 is a great choice. It has a responsive touchscreen, a comfortable keyboard, and is bloatware-free.
The speakers are solid, making it one of the best-sounding laptops around.
