If you want your laptop to double as a mirror, get one with a touch screen. She said that retail workers who have to extend their arms and poke at touch-screen point-of-sale systems all day - a gesture similar to touching a laptop screen - have developed shoulder problems.
'You are going to have to be doing a lot more reaching and a lot more movements of your wrist and your hand if you're going to be typing and then doing the touch screen,' Cindy Burt, an ergonomics expert at UCLA, told Laptop Mag when we interviewed her for a previous article. However, with a clamshell laptop, you have to reach across the keyboard, which is awkward at best and injurious at worst. When you touch a tablet or smartphone, you usually bring it closer to your face. The difference between the touch and nontouch Dell XPS 13 is also a quite-noticeable 0.2 pounds (2.7 versus 2.9 pounds). For example, the EliteBook Folio G1 without touch is just 2.14 pounds, but the touch-screen version tips the scale at 2.26 pounds. Adding touch to a laptop usually pumps up its weight by 0.2 to 0.4 pounds.
If you choose a laptop with touch, prepare to literally carry the burden of your mistake with you wherever you go.
