Best Touchscreen Laptop 2024: All the best touchscreen PCs we’ve reviewed
Looking for a laptop can be overwhelming enough, but it can get even more complicated if you’re after a specific feature, like a touchscreen. So we’ve made this list to make it easier for you to find the best touchscreen laptop.
We review new laptops every month, from traditional clamshell devices to 2-in-1 convertibles, so it’s safe to say that our team has a lot of experience testing laptops. And since we have so much collective knowledge, we thought it was high time that we curated a dedicated list of all the best touchscreen laptops on the market.
While having a touchscreen may seem superfluous at first, it actually has a lot more uses than you may think. Touchscreens that support a stylus allow users to doodle and draw on their device. And even if you’re only using your laptop for productivity work, the ability to zoom into photos, quickly scroll through documents and easily navigate spreadsheets with quick swipes and prods can be incredibly helpful.
Each device has been thoroughly reviewed and tested by our team. We benchmark every laptop and use them for at least a week so we can give you real-world advice on how each device feels to use during day-to-day work.
If nothing on this list is catching your eye right now, make sure to bookmark this page and come back soon, as we will be updating it every time a new fantastic touchscreen laptop comes through our doors.
And if you’re not tied down to having a touchscreen laptop, make sure you check out some of our other best lists; we have dedicated lists for the Best Overall Laptop, Best Budget Laptop, Best Student Laptop, Best Gaming Laptop and Best Chromebook guides.
Best Touchscreen Laptops at a glance
- Best overall touchscreen laptop: Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16 – check price
- Best dual-screen touchscreen laptop: Asus Zenbook Duo (2024) – check price
- Best Chromebook touchscreen laptop: Acer Chromebook Spin 514 – check price
- Best touchscreen laptop for sketchers: Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 – check price
How we test
Every laptop we review goes through a series of uniform checks designed to gauge key things including build quality, performance, screen quality and battery life.
These include formal synthetic benchmarks and scripted tests, plus a series of real-world checks, such as how well it runs the most frequently used apps.
We also make sure to use every laptop we review as our primary device for at least a week to ensure our review is as accurate as possible.
- Sturdy and well-made
- Decent display and touchscreen
- Good battery life
- Port selection is a bit stingy
- Patchy keyboard backlight
- Bright Mini LED touch-enabled 165Hz IPS display
- Powerful sound system
- Easy to add more storage
- Strong creative and gaming performance
- Poor battery life
- Only one USB-C port
- Fantastic, flexible dual-screen design
- Impressive clarity, contrast and colour on both OLED screens
- Excellent clip-in, clip-out keyboard
- Decent all-round performance from Core Ultra 9 CPU
- GPU performance seems constrained
- Mediocre battery life
- Audio grows harsh at higher volumes
- Solid creator capabilities
- Impressive battery life
- Bright and detailed 3:2 display
- Top-tier design and portability
- Can get hot and loud
- Performance falls short of rivals
- High starting price
Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16
Best overall
Pros
- Bright Mini LED touch-enabled 165Hz IPS display
- Powerful sound system
- Easy to add more storage
- Strong creative and gaming performance
Cons
- Poor battery life
- Only one USB-C port
Lenovo has been championing the touchscreen for years now, so it’s no surprise to see that it currently offers the best touchscreen laptop you can buy: the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16.
The 16-inch touchscreen is fantastic, and looks great too thanks to the Mini LED screen technology that can be cranked up to a searing 1048-nits brightness with HDR activated. That’s roughly 3x brighter than your average laptop. You even get a 165Hz refresh rate here, ensuring scrolling feels smooth and slick.
We were really impressed with the performance on offer here too, with the CPU speeds not too far away from matching the MacBook Pro (M2 Pro) laptop in our benchmark tests. Thanks to the inclusion of a discrete RTX 4070 GPU, this laptop is also capable of graphics-intensive workloads such as gaming and video editing, making it a versatile beast.
Weighing just over 2kg , this is a rather hefty laptop, but that’s to be expected with a laptop with this level of specs. So if you want a touchscreen laptop with creative chops, our top recommendation is the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16.
Reviewer: Alun Taylor
Full Review: Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16 review
Asus Zenbook Duo (2024)
Best dual-screen laptop
Pros
- Fantastic, flexible dual-screen design
- Impressive clarity, contrast and colour on both OLED screens
- Excellent clip-in, clip-out keyboard
- Decent all-round performance from Core Ultra 9 CPU
Cons
- GPU performance seems constrained
- Mediocre battery life
- Audio grows harsh at higher volumes
Why settle for one touchscreen when you can have two? That’s the key feature of Asus Zenbook Duo (2024), opening up a number of possibilities to make this a wickedly versatile PC.
A built-in kickstand allows you to either stack these screens vertically or horizontally, while simple taps and swipes on the screen allows you to easily move each browser and app into the perfect alignment. The bundled Bluetooth keyboard can either be sat on your desk in front of the laptop, or can rest on top of the second screen to take the form of a classic clamshell laptop.
The Zenbook Duo excels in other areas too, with the Intel Core Ultra proving to be a speedy chip, while the OLED technology behind the screens ensures a colourful and vibrant picture. There’s no discrete GPU here though, so this is more of a productivity device than one suited to creators.
You will need to pay a premium for the Asus Zenbook Duo due to the secondary touchscreen, but if you feel that it will help to boost your productivity, then it should be worth every penny.
Reviewer: Stuart Andrews
Full Review: Asus Zenbook Duo (2024) Review
Acer Chromebook Spin 514
Best Chromebook touchscreen laptop
Pros
- Sturdy and well-made
- Decent display and touchscreen
- Good battery life
Cons
- Port selection is a bit stingy
- Patchy keyboard backlight
Anyone who’s looking for a reliable touchscreen laptop that runs on ChromeOS will want to take a look at the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (2022). One of the biggest advantages of using a Chromebook is that they run on a very simple UI and come with access to the Google Play Store, giving you access to the majority of Android apps out there.
The Chromebook Spin 514 is not the most powerful laptop in the world, but it does offer a decent grunt for a Chromebook. Our model came with an Intel Core i3-1110G4 processor and it proved nippy enough for the lighter demands of ChromeOS. The 8GB of RAM it comes with allowed our reviewer to open up a shed-load of Chrome tabs without anything faltering. While it won’t be able to sustain the same amount of apps and tabs as most Windows devices, it will be able to serve you through day-to-day productivity tasks.
Our battery benchmarks showed that the Chromebook Spin 514 could last 10 hours and 11 minutes, which will be able to last you through the workday if you happen to forget your charger. The 1.37kg weight is a little heftier than you may expect for a Chromebook, but our reviewer was still able to throw it into a backpack and take it out on the go.
The screen sits at 14 inches and packs a Full HD (1920×1080) resolution, which proved to be a great choice for day-to-day browsing and watching media content. The touchscreen combined with the 2-in-1 design means that you can use the Chromebook Spin 514 like a makeshift tablet.
Our reviewer claimed that this is one of the best Chromebooks they’ve tested in the last few years. It boasts a very sleek design and the processor is powerful enough for day-to-day productivity tasks, and comes with a very reasonable £497 asking price.
Reviewer: Reece Bithrey
Full Review: Acer Chromebook Spin 514 Review
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2
Best touchscreen laptop for sketching
Pros
- Solid creator capabilities
- Impressive battery life
- Bright and detailed 3:2 display
- Top-tier design and portability
Cons
- Can get hot and loud
- Performance falls short of rivals
- High starting price
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 has a fairly unique design, allowing you to pull the screen forward at a diagonal angle so it leans over the keyboard. This makes it easier to sketch and doodle on the touchscreen – although it’s worth bearing in mind that the Surface Pen stylus is sold separately.
You can also fold the keyboard down flat atop of the keyboard, taking the form of a tablet. However, with a weight of 1.89kg, this is no iPad replacement, as its best off thought as a Wacom-esque graphics tablet substitute instead.
The combo of an Intel Core i7-13700H processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 GPU make it a competent performer, but our benchmarks show that the likes of the MacBook Pro offer a lot more power. The Studio 2 should be good for basic creative tasks such as making sketches, but it can’t be pushed too hard.
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 has a lot of drawbacks, such as a limited performance, loud fans and lack of an OLED screen. But if you really love the unique design, and are craving a touchscreen, then this laptop is still worth considering.
Reviewer: Adam Speight
Full Review: Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio 2 Review
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The SSD (solid state drive) is essentially the component that determines how much storage your laptop has. A 512GB SSD is the norm these days, with anything less making storage space feel cramped if you download a lot of music, photos and videos.
A 2-in-1 laptop is a device that has a flexible hinge, allowing it to be folded up into a tablet form. These laptops often have stylus support too, making them good options for doodlers and creatives.
Thunderbolt is a port technology that is typically found through USB-C connections. Thunderbolt is signalled with a small lightning bolt icon and can allow for multi-purpose functions such as power delivery, display output and data transfer for an all-in-one solution.
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