A great touchscreen monitor, if touch is what you need.
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THE TOUCHSCREEN has a precarious place in the hierarchy of PC input devices. It’s obviously brilliant on a cellphone or tablet—you can see this in the way it’s impossible to buy one that uses anything else—but in the world of the Windows PC, it’s less clear. Sure, being able to tap a file to open it sounds like a much easier way to do things, but in practise it rarely works that way, having to reach over the keyboard, only to have your finger miss its target and leave a smear on the screen. Apple hasn’t bothered making touchscreen MacBooks despite having a certain amount of expertise in the area, and this perhaps tells us something.
The Asus Zenscreen Ink offers a sort of halfway house, being a touch-sensitive external portable monitor with a stylus, which uses the cleverness of USB-C to connect itself to your PC with a single cable. It can be set horizontally on your desk with its built-in stand, made to stand vertically with a bit less tilt, and even picked up and used like a graphics tablet. There’s no wireless connectivity, but it does have a pair of tiny speakers, so you can use it for watching movies, if you really must—there’s a headphone socket too, although most people will probably be using Bluetooth headphones for this task.