Question: How much does it cost to touch-enable a screen?

[andrewducker]

I'm curious as to what the cost would be for laptop screen manufacturers to touch-enable them. Because I don't have a huge interest in a tablet*, and I'm not giving up my keyboard, but having touch as an option on a laptop would be handy.

So, for a 15" laptop, what kind of premium would need to be paid for touch-sensitivity?

*Well, not one under 12" - I'd want one for comic reading, and my preferred size for reading them is oversize hardback.

Comments

[matgb]

Pretty much all the new laptops I've seen advertised or written up seem to be touch these days, all the ultrabooks are, it's a main feature of Win8 afterall. Jennie's old HP Pavilion was touch enabled but Vista had no real use for that, so I'm guessing the answer is 'not much' but I know very little.