XPS 13: Touchscreen or Non-touch?

I'm in the market for a new laptop. . .Christmas gift for my daughter. Over the years we have had a few Dells and have mostly been rewarded with reliable machines. Presently have one L501X, 5 years old, (the one that is going to be replaced), and I use an L502X, which is 4 years old. Bought my wife an XPS 13-9350 for Christmas last year. Nice machine.
Looking at the new models, I'm wondering if I should go with the touch screen or the non-touch. Never been a big fan of greasy fingerprints all over the screen, but there must be some advantages to it. Is the display that much better?

 

There is only one point to the touch display, and that's in case you find it easier to navigate (in other words, you don't have your way around a keyboard and a trackpad).
I've only found this to be useful when the display supports a digitizer, otherwise I'd rather keep my hands motionless rather than reaching out to touch the screen, and i HATE smudges.
It's a cool feature with a digitizer though, since it makes high-dpi use much easier (i like using 4K on sub-14" displays).
Anyway, it adds weight, probably price, but you may not be able to get the 1800p display without touch.

 

The display on my wife's 9350 is excellent. Is this the same display that's on the new XPS 13 non-touch?

 

I'd go non-touch, the battery life boost is more useful to me because the screen size is small enough that the resolution improvement of the touch screen isn't that noticeable.

 

I'm definitely leaning towards the non-touch. For starters, the touch screen is $300. But with a 1920 x 1080 resolution, the non-touch is more than sufficient for our needs.
Now, time to wait for coupons and deals. Something has to be coming down the 'pike for Black Friday/Cyber Monday,

 

non touch: battery life + matte screen = profit

 

I have a XPS 13 9343 that is touch screen. This came with Windows 8.1 but was upgraded to Windows 10. I had some issues regarding OEM software I must be able to run on the Win10 platform (some compatibility issues). I purchased a 1Tb ssd and installed Windows 7 Pro on it and finally got all the correct drivers loaded with exception of the touch screen (no driver for that for Win7). To me the touch screen was a great annoyance because if I inadvertently touched the screen when typing and attempting to access one of the function keys then the cursor would move. I didn't use the touch screen much so it is no loss to me with Win7 loaded. I have to say that the performance of my computer is much better without it. My XPS 13 is running very well with Win7Pro and I am able to run the OEM software without compatibility issues.

 

I went out of my way to get the non touch 9350. I like the extra 2 or so hours of battery life that I get. Very useful for me. I don't really use the touch. I'm coming from a surface pro 2 and the touch was a cool feature but I don't miss it. I also have a MBP 13 and don't wish it was a touch screen. My acer daily driver of 5 years was a non touch also. I guess it depends if the touch screen would be useful vs the extra 2 hours of real world battery life.

 

I'm trying to decide also. I want the improved battery life, but I don't want the adaptive brightness. Does anyone know on which screens you can disable the adaptive brightness?

Dell's options now show QHD touch, FHD touch, and FHD non-touch, depending on which config you start with. Presumably, the FHD touch would have the same battery savings as the FHD non-touch, though I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere.

 

QHD only.

 

I'd go FHD non-touch over FHD touch, just for the Matte screen vs Glossy