Windows 8 touch screen laptop price

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Windows 8 touch-screen laptop price cuts coming With Microsoft expected to give PC makers a discount on Windows 8 licensing fees, price cuts for touch-screen laptops will follow, Asia-based sources tell Digitimes.

But, it includes a touch screen, and not as a special feature worthy of promotional point-of-sale stickers, but simply as a matter of course, because that's what according to one reading of the tea leaves you'll expect from all but the cheapest of budget laptops in the world of Windows 8.

That said, the plastic body looks best from a distance -- seams are too evident close up, and the thick lid and tiny keyboard keys won't help this pass for a high-end system. The 1,xpixel screen resolution feels low for a inch laptop, although that's still what you're most likely to find in this price range. My biggest complaint is the smallish four-cell battery, which only ran for about 3. Design, features, and display The Acer Aspire V5 is without a doubt a product of its times.

Like so many other laptops, it's much thinner than older midprice inch laptops. It's a clear dividend from the emphasis on superslim ultrabooks. The V5 isn't an official Intel ultrabook, but the diet most laptops have gone on leave it looking like something we'd be amazed by a couple of years ago. Of course, nearly every other mainstream laptop is similarly thin now, from Dell's Inspiron z line to HP's sleekbooks, so yesterday's enviably thin is today's merely average.

The V5's matte-silver plastic body looks fine, especially from a few feet away. But, up close, it lacks any personality or detail. The body flexes a bit under the fingers, and the single black plastic screen hinge feels especially cheap. The wide interior panel is dominated by a keyboard that goes nearly edge to edge and includes a full number pad.

It's surprising, then, that the individual letter keys are on the small side, and the number pad keys are even narrower, leading to plenty of room between the very widely spaced keys. The keys wiggle a bit under your fingers, but the keyboard tray itself has less of that bouncy flex feeling that I'd expect to find in a very low-cost laptop.

The keyboard is also backlit, a feature we still rarely see in a budget laptop. The touch pad is pleasingly large, and of the button-free clickpad variety often reserved for more expensive laptops. With plenty of space, multifinger gestures such as the two-finger scroll, have room to breathe, although the touch pad response is a bit jumpy compared with the best non-Mac examples.

Fortunately, with a touch screen, you won't have to struggle with the awkward Windows 8 touch pad gestures as much. And, in fact, I found myself using the screen for a lot of basic navigation, much as I did on the Acer Aspire S7, another non-transforming touch-screen clamshell. The best examples out there are just as usable as any laptop thanks to their full-sized keyboards, and they also double as effective, if rather bulky tablets.

Most of our favourites take advantage of their double-jointed stands by contorting into a variety of poses — a feat which comes in handy for watching videos in cramped spaces, or turning them into miniature touchscreen all-in-one PCs. Up until recently, Windows 8 hybrids have been anything but a budget purchase. Read on for a selection of our favourite Windows 8 hybrids. A superbly crafted Dell upgrades its XPS 12 with a Haswell processor — the result is a swanky, aspirational and long-lasting hybrid.