Yeah, I'm really surprised they haven't. I'm not a huge touchscreen on laptop user but they've become so ubiquitous on non-apple laptops that I regularly poke the screen on my MacBook.

It's not like a touchscreen is great ergonomics on a conventional laptop but there are certain situations and applications where it's just convenient to have the option. And it's low cost these days, so it makes perfect sense to me for manufacturers to throw them in so you have the choice of a really easy, fast interaction when you're flipping pages or pausing videos.

What I really miss are pen digitizers which had been the basic minimum on convertible tablets for a long time in the '90s, but then everyone got rid of them. Only now they're slowly creeping back but mostly only on very high end tablets, although a few manufacturers like Lenovo have put them back on convertible laptops.

Couldn't you use screen mirroring on iPad for solving that(Haven't used that personally)

I could, but then I might as well just use the phone.

It's the portability of being able to do it directly on the laptop that I'm wanting.

But, a phone is portable, already?

It is, but having to hook up the phone to a stand and connect it to my MacBook and lay all that out in a confined space / coffee shop / etc is not.

Not when it's the laptop and the phone.

Why so hostile? Lots of people like having touchscreens on their laptops, myself included. What's wrong with it if people want it?