Soldato
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I have a Dell XPS 15 with a touchscreen, I dont recall ever using it. I have had previous touchscreen laptops and dont recall using them either.
With the working from home and home-schooling I have been letting my 10yr old daught use the xps 15, while I work at a desk as it is kinder on my back/neck.
I was intrigued when she showed me her work she used the touchscreen a lot, scrolling, zooming tuning pages etc. This is not a habit from phone/table use as we dont really let her use our phones and have only recently got an ipad. She explained that it is because the first computer we gave her was the dell duo (a horrificly slow computer) and that has a touchscreen. I asked her if the computers at school were touchscreen, and she said that they arent, but out of habit she touches them!
I think it relates to forming habits - computers only became touchscreen when I had been using them for years, so it didnt feel natural, whereas my daughter was using touchscreen from the start, so it is a more normal part of computer interaction for her. Her computer skills havent been enfeebled by touchscreen (which i think is often the case for tablet-raised kids), she can touch type and uses keyboard shortcuts.
TLDR -do you use touchscreen on a laptop?
-do you notice young'uns using it differently?
With the working from home and home-schooling I have been letting my 10yr old daught use the xps 15, while I work at a desk as it is kinder on my back/neck.
I was intrigued when she showed me her work she used the touchscreen a lot, scrolling, zooming tuning pages etc. This is not a habit from phone/table use as we dont really let her use our phones and have only recently got an ipad. She explained that it is because the first computer we gave her was the dell duo (a horrificly slow computer) and that has a touchscreen. I asked her if the computers at school were touchscreen, and she said that they arent, but out of habit she touches them!
I think it relates to forming habits - computers only became touchscreen when I had been using them for years, so it didnt feel natural, whereas my daughter was using touchscreen from the start, so it is a more normal part of computer interaction for her. Her computer skills havent been enfeebled by touchscreen (which i think is often the case for tablet-raised kids), she can touch type and uses keyboard shortcuts.
TLDR -do you use touchscreen on a laptop?
-do you notice young'uns using it differently?