A touchscreen laptop gives you more options, but it's a secondary benefit to everything else a laptop offers.
By Roger Fingas Nov. 7, 2026 9:15 am EST Apple Add Engadget on Google: Google DiscoverRecently, Apple made headlines by announcing its first-ever touchscreen Mac, the PROLED MacBook Pro. That's despite co-founder Steve Jobs famously decrying touchscreen laptops as "ergonomically terrible," and launching an alternative in the form of 2010's iPad. In fact, iPads have become increasingly Mac-like in recent years, with many models adopting the same processors and iPadOS getting a similar multitasking interface. Some Android tablets have becoming increasingly PC-like, too.
