Conversion to Touchscreen?>

I just received my new M14 a few weeks ago, and they didn't have a touchscreen option. Not that its a big deal, but I ran across an upgrade kit:

eBay Boutiques | Visualtouchworld

I'm wondering if anyone has done this and how well it worked? Would be a cool and cheap upgrade if it didn't work =)

 

It would be nice to have a touchscreen for the Alienware 14.

 

I have not added a touchscreen to my AW14, but I did add one to an Asus EeePC that I had a few years ago.
It is not that difficult, but you do need a couple of things:
1. access to an internal USB port (I don't think there is a USB header available on the AW14 motherboard.
2. sufficient room between the LCD Bezel and the screen for the thickness of the touchscreen.
(not sure if there is enough room on AW14, the bezel is pretty tight and fits flush.

Even on the EeePC I had it was a real tight fit and the bezel cracked in one spot.

Personally, I don't really care for touch screens. I've got a Samsung AIO with a touchscreen and never use
the touchscreen on it. I'm a touch typist and prefer using the mouse for cursor movement and clicks.
(I guess I'm just old school )

oh, and i checked both of those sites you listed, neither one had a 14" touchscreen that I could find.

 

It's not old school. Why do you think mouses haven't been changer for so many years? Because it seems to be one of the best ways to interact in a Window Manager based User Interface. It's very precise and very less tiring only palm movements are enough. Touchscreens are nice for mobile devices that is in your hand where you have no room for other pointing devices, or other troublesome stuff like putting in and out a stylus. But using your fingers isn't as precise as a mouse. Also when using a laptop/pc (keyboard & mouse) our palms are always resting somewhere which. So it might be more troublesome to constantly reach out for the screen.

By the way to the OP, if you want there is the new Razer Blade 14. It has the new 870m. It's the thinnest gaming laptop if I'm correct. And it has a ~3K 14" Touchscreen.

 

As someone who started with CPM and dBase II, I find your referece to using a mouse being "old school" makes me feel SO OLD.

 

Trust me, I'm right there with ya. Used CPM & dbase II on a Wang OIS system back in the early 80's
(8 inch floppy disks, 5MB (yes MB) removable disk platters (Hawk Drives) the size of a half-refrigerator, etc...)

I started using Linux back in 1993 while I was stationed in England, downloaded the Linux kernel from the University of Helsinki (where Linus Tovalds was still going to school) and downloaded the rest of the GNU tools from the FSF and "rolled your own Linux" as there was no distro back then.
When the first Linux distro's started coming out, it was on about 8 3.5" disks or 40 (yes forty) 3.5" disks if you wanted X11 as well.

 

I haven't seen any so far.