It’s hard to look anywhere and not see the best touchscreen laptops in 2018. Read on to see which ones are worth your time on Black Friday.
Whether you like it or not, you can’t deny that the touchscreen has completely changed the laptop scene. From more touch-friendly operating systems like Windows 10 and ChromeOS to the explosion of drawing apps, there are more reasons than ever to have a touchscreen on the best laptops than ever before, and the best 2-in-1 laptops surging popularity does nothing but confirm this.
While it may seem like every laptop has a touchscreen in 2018, they’re not all created equal. While most will detect when you simply scroll up and down a web page with your finger, the best touchscreen laptops will be tuned for precise digital pen usage and even have some specialized features.
Keeping this in mind, we went ahead and found all the best touchscreen laptops for everyone – from digital artists to note takers. Whether you need to be a part of the touchscreen revolution, you’re looking to upgrade to the next best thing, or you’re just looking for some tech-savvy gifts ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday – you’ve come to the right place.
CPU: 8th Gen Intel Core i5 – i7| Graphics:: Intel UHD Graphics 620| RAM: 8GB – 16GB| Screen: 13.5-inch 2,256 x 1,504 PixelSense Display| Storage: 128GB – 1TB SSD
Over the last few years, Microsoft has been hard at work creating some of the best touchscreen laptops on the market. Devices like the Surface Pro 6, the Surface Book 2, all of these are brilliant devices. However, the new Surface Laptop 2 takes the traditional laptop form factor and merges it flawlessly with touchscreen technology in the most compelling way we’ve seen in a while. Not only is a beautiful display, packed in a gorgeous chassis, but it has the hardware to back it up. Some may lament the absence of Thunderbolt 3, but when it does so many things right, it’s hard not to love the Surface Laptop 2.
Read the full review: Surface Laptop 2
CPU: 7th Gen Intel Core m3-6Y30| Graphics:: Intel HD Graphics 515| RAM: 4GB| Screen: 12.3-inch (2,400 x 1,600) LED display| Storage: 32GB eMMC
The Samsung Chromebook Pro can be likened to an extremely large Samsung Note device in that it has a stowable stylus and a fantastic touchscreen for handwriting notes. What’s better, every single thing you write down on the Samsung Chromebook Pro is saved to Google Keep, which then digitizes your handwriting into a text document for easy searching afterwards. And, when you take into consideration its access to the Google Play Store for all the best Android apps, it isn’t hard to see why this is one of the best touchscreen laptops.
Read the full review: Samsung Chromebook Pro
CPU: 8th Gen Intel Core i5 – i7| Graphics:: Intel UHD Graphics 620| RAM: 8GB – 16GB| Screen: 13.3-inch, FHD (1,920 x 1,080) – UHD (3,840 x 2,160)| Storage: 256GB – 1TB SSD
The HP Spectre x360 manages to strike a perfect balance between tablet and laptop. As a tablet, it has brilliantly slim bezels for consuming all sorts of content, and is light enough to hold for long stretches. Then, as a laptop, it features amazing battery life that will last you throughout the day and you won’t find another laptop with a keyboard this tactile.
CPU: 8th Gen Intel Core i5 – i7| Graphics:: Intel UHD Graphics 620| RAM: 8GB – 16GB| Screen: 13.9-inch, FHD (1,920 x 1,080) – UHD (3,840 x 2,160)| Storage: 256GB – 1TB SSD
If you’re looking a laptop with even more screen real estate there’s the 13.9-inch Lenovo Yoga 920. It’s sports just as many 4,096 levels of sensitivity as the Surface Pro but on a much larger 4K screen. This sharp-looking hybrid laptop also brings a touch of class with its unique watchband hinge and fully metal build.
Read the hand-on review: Lenovo Yoga 920
CPU: 8th Gen Intel Core i7| Graphics:: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB GDDR5); Intel UHD Graphics 620| RAM: 16GB| Screen: 15-inch (3,240 x 2,160)| Storage: 256GB – 1TB SSD
The Surface Book 2 15 inch not only offers the same great touch and pen experience as the Surface Pro, but it also features a larger screen and extremely more beefy hardware. Thanks to its quad-core processor and potent discrete GPU, it’s ready to handle your most demanding art projects, and will even allow you to play the best PC games.
Read the full review: Microsoft Surface Book 2 (15-inch)
