Best touchscreen laptops in 2025

The best touchscreen laptops are a great option for anyone who wants something larger and more powerful than a keyboard folio attached to a tablet. (They're also great for anyone who prefers tapping on a display instead of using a mouse.) Our favorites cover a wide spectrum of performance powerhouses, budget-minded stalwarts, entertainment wonders, and versatile 2-in-1s.

HP's stellar Spectre x360 14 earned the top spot on this list thanks to its solid performance, phenomenal battery life, a stunning OLED display, great speakers, and a bouncy keyboard — I'm not being hyperbolic saying it's close to perfect.

If you're more concerned about getting a great laptop for the lowest price possible, the Dell Inspiron 14 Plus's (with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip) performance and battery life hangs with the best of the best. Need something so thin and light that might make you forget it's a laptop? Check out the best ultraportable, the Asus Zenbook S 14.

If you're not sure you'll need a touchscreen, check out our best laptops page, which includes non-touch models. And if you're a student, check out our list of the best college laptops.

This page is constantly updated based on our latest reviews to reflect Laptop Mag's current picks for the best touchscreen laptops in 2025.

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Joanna Nelius

Joanna Nelius has reviewed laptops and computer hardware since 2018. Her work has appeared in The Verge, USA Today, Gizmodo, PC Gamer, and Maximum PC. She holds an MFA from Chapman University and works as a creative writing instructor.

The best touchscreen laptops in 2024

Best overall

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The HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) is highly regarded at Laptop Mag. It appears on a few other buying guides as the best 2-in-1 laptop for a very good reason: it's near-perfect, offering the most consistent balance between performance, battery life, design, audio, keyboard clickiness, a 4K webcam, and a gorgeous display.

HP built the 2024 Spectre x360 14 with a powerful Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of SSD storage, a 2.8K OLED touchscreen, and 11 hours of battery life packed into a 14-inch chassis. That's incredible on its own, but it's staggering that it's somehow only $1,858 — and we've seen it go on sale for hundreds of dollars less.

On the Geekbench 6.1 overall performance test, its 12,358 multicore score flew far over the average premium laptop (8,443). Its SSD speeds are also decent, transferring 25GB of data at 1,362 megabytes per second. That's close to the average (1,378 MBps).

The Spectre doesn't have the brightest or most colorful touchscreen, though. Its display reaches 366 nits of brightness, which is lower than the average touchscreen (431 nits). It also covers 85.8% of DCI-P3 color gamut, below the average premium laptop (98.5%). Both the LG Gram Pro 16 2-in-1 and Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, which are both on this list, reach 133.5% and 155%, respectively.

However, its OLED panel still filled the "Road House" (2024) trailer with "expected vibrance," as our editor, Rami Tabari, said in his review.

See our full HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) review.

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Best budget

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The Dell Inspiron 14 Plus (7441) is part of the first wave of Copilot+ PCs to feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon X processor — and for a budget touchscreen laptop we've seen go on sale for less than $1,000, it's impressive: great performance, great heat management, excellent battery life, and even a solid web cam. Laptop Mag's editor, Rami Tabari, summed it up best in his review: "If your focus is affordability and incredible battery life, the Dell Inspiron 14 Plus is the one to buy."

It has one of the slower Snapdragon X processors, but it sure doesn't feel like it. This laptop flew past the average premium machine in our Geekbench 6.3 overall performance test, 13,281 to 9,726, respectively. It also has one of the longest battery lives we've seen in any laptop: 18 hours and 20 minutes, which blows past the average premium laptop by almost seven hours.

There's more: it has a surprisingly good 1080p webcam that clearly captures fine details like strands of hair, and the contrast doesn't blow out when there's too much light. You can safely keep this Inspiron in your laptop, too, whether your writing a paper for a history class or streaming the latest gaming news on YouTube.

But here's the womp-womp: this laptop's display. It's dull, covering only 69.1% of the DCI-P3 color gamut. (The average premium laptop covers 88.7%.) Brightness is its redeeming quality: a max 470 nits.

See our full Dell Inspiron 14 Plus review.

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Best Chromebook

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I definitely agree with our reviewer, Stevie Bonifield, in that the Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714 is "ideal for students or professionals who mainly work through web browsing."

Typing with its keyboard feels comfortable and crisp. Movie dialogue comes through its speakers loud and clear. It can transform into a tablet, which makes it easier to use certain Google Docs features like handwritten annotations. And as an added bonus, buyers get a free, 1-year subscription (normally $20 per month) to Gemini Advanced, Google's suite of AI tools like Deep Research.

Its Intel Core Ultra processor handles multiple open Chrome tabs, video streaming, and other basic tasks with legerity. In the Geekbench overall performance test, the Spin performed admirably with a score of 6,335, making it 8% faster than the average Chromebook (5,246) and in-line with our real-world experience.

While we wish its battery life was longer, it can still last through a typical day at work or school — but that's dependent on how bright you set the display and how often you'd use this Chromebook throughout the day.

For our battery run down test, we set the display to 150 nits of brightness and have the laptop continuously cycle through a series of web pages until the battery runs out of power. The Spin made it 9 hours and 30 minutes before powering down.

If you have the display set to its maximum brightness of 355 nits, that number can be shorter. Still, that number is higher than some Chromebooks we've tested in the past.

See our full Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714 review.

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Best OLED

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The LG Gram Pro 16 2-in-1 has a large, incredibly color-accurate OLED display that makes it our top-pick for anyone who likes to wind down with their favorite TV show at the end of day. It's one of the thinnest and lightest 16-inch laptops you can currently buy that still has more performance than the average premium machine, and enough battery life to binge-watch the latest true crime series on Netflix.

It's dimensions are incredibly close to Asus's flagship AMD Ryzen AI laptop, the Zenbook S 16. Its OLED display covers 133.5% of the DCI-P3 color gamut (the movie industry's standard, surpassing the average premium laptop (89.7%) — including many of its closest competitors.

This laptop isn't the fastest performance-wise, but it's not a slow-poke. In the Geekbench 6.3 overall performance, the Gram churned out a multicore score of 11,897, easily beating the category average of 9,905. Laptop Mag's managing Editor, Sean Riley, reviewed the Gram Pro and believes "the slowdown is due to thermal management" rather than a "question of raw power."

This seems to track with one of our big sticking points about this laptop: it can get too warm. The touch pad and center of keyboard stayed below our 95-degree comfort threshold, but underside reached 100.4 degrees. One particular spot on the underside, the center-rear, spiked to 115.7 degrees!

Not great if you like to curl up on the couch and watch movies with your laptop in your laptop. But as long as you keep the Gram Pro on a surface other than your skin, you can enjoy all the visual delights its display has to offer.

See our full LG Gram Pro 16 2-in-1 review.

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Best for drawing

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What does a 2-in-1, touchscreen laptop need to be a great digital canvas? The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x can answer that: a sharp OLED display that produces vivid colors and inky blacks; enough performance to handle you largest artwork files; and battery life that makes you feel free to lose track of time. Oh, and it should be cool enough to put in your lap.

This laptop's display covers the widest amount of the DCI-P3 color gamut out of any laptop on this list (155%) and even some dedicated tablets. It also gets bright, hitting a max of 464 nits in SDR and 785 nits in HDR.

The Yoga Slim 7x also has speed in spades. With a Snapdragon X Elite processor, it cranked out a Geekbench 6 overall performance score of 13,750 — 20% faster than is Aura Edition counterpart with a brand new Intel Core Ultra 7 256V chip (10,711). It's essential for any creativity laptop to have fast multicore performance, as many creativity programs make full-use of all the CPU's cores simultaneously; this laptop is not only great for drawing, but also for video editing, too.

There are two crucial things to keep in mind before buying this laptop: app compatibility and its reflective OLED display.

The display can pick up more glare than your hyper-political uncle at the holiday dinner table, so you might need to max out its brightness to see your work without that distraction. (Which, of course will shorten the battery life; the brighter the display, the more power it needs.) Our reviewer, Stevie Bonifield, wishes "there was an anti-reflective layer over the display," but otherwise, "It looks sharp and colorful."

You'll also want to make sure your favorite drawing app has a native ARM64 version, since this laptop runs Windows on ARM. For most people, this shouldn't be an issue as many popular drawing apps, like Leonardo and Concepts, are compatible. But if you are a diehard Adobe Fresco user, sorry — that won't run on this laptop.

See our full Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x review.

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Best ultraportable

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As Laptop Mag's Madeline Ricchiuto said in her review of the Asus Zenbook S 14: "This is an impressive launch laptop for Intel Lunar Lake and a win for Asus." Nearly everything about it — its design, portability, performance, battery life, and OLED screen — makes it the best-balanced, thin and light laptop in its class.

It's OLED display and battery life are this laptop's most impressive features. The glossy, 3K display produces rich and accurate colors. Its peak brightness (342 nits), though dimmer than some of its competitors, is still bright enough to ward off the harsh glare of fluorescent office lighting. The 3K display also helps conserves power, while still looking as crisp and clear as 4K; the Zenbook S 14 lasted just under 14 hours in our web surfing battery test.

While that's not as long as some of its competitors, it's impressive how Asus fit a large, 72Wh battery inside the laptop's incredibly thin chassis. That definitely has a hand in powering this laptop past the 10-hour mark.

It handles dozens of open browser tabs and simultaneously running apps without a hitch, too. On the Geekbench 6 cross-platform CPU benchmark, it's evenly matched in single-core performance with the the Asus Zenbook S 16 (AMD Ryzen AI), 2,751 to 2,765, respectively. Just a 0.5% difference.

Multicore performance is a different story, though. It trails behind the Asus Zenbook S 16 (13,282) by 16% and Athe sus Zenbook 14 OLED (12,707) by 13%. That's disappointing to see, especially compared to Intel's last-gen Meteor Lake chip.

But the Zenbook S 14 makes up for that with its quick SSD, taking just 17.8 seconds to complete our 25GB File Copy test at a transfer rate of 1,513 MBps.

See our full Asus Zenbook S 14 (UX5406) review.

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Best business

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A good business laptop should have a powerful CPU, a snappy keyboard, and an office-appropriate chassis. But a great one does all that and more, like the Lenovo ThinkBook 13x G4. Our reviewer, Stevie Bonifield, found it has "surprising strengths" for a business laptop, including "seriously impressive speakers." It's the kind of laptop that can be an "an around-the-clock companion."

At 0.5 inches thick and 2.7 pounds, this ThinkBook as thin and as light as other laptops on this list. It's easy to travel with, whether flying to a conference or walking down the hall to the conference room (or for you remote workers, to your favorite coffee shop). Its two-toned, silver-gray chassis is business-appropriate without being business-boring. It also has a snappy keyboard with a decent amount of tactile feedback, yet stays pretty quiet. (I've tested a lot of Lenovo laptops over the years and I like their keyboard for the same reasons.)

Stevie's review also praises how well Billie Eilish’s “Ocean Eyes” sounded through the ThinkBook's speakers; the bass was smooth, balanced with the highs in a way that created a surround-sound effect.

While this laptop's CPU isn't the most performative compared to some of its closest competition, it still handles numerous open browser tabs with two or three apps open at once just fine. Geekbench 6 benchmark tests reveled a multicore score of 11,058, which is lower than some if its director competitors. But most people will not notice a difference in basic productivity tasks.

Unlike CPU performance, though, battery life is definitely more noticeable, and we wish this laptop lasted longer than 8hours and 39 minutes. By comparison, every laptop on this list has much more battery life, between two hours and ten hours.

But if your job doesn't constantly keep you glued to your laptop, or you rarely ever work away from a desk (maybe you're a teacher!), its lower-than-average battery life shouldn't be a huge concern.

See our full Lenovo ThinkBook 13x G4 review.

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Recently Reviewed

Not every laptop can make the best touchscreen laptop page. (You'd be scrolling for days if we included them all!) We review new laptops every week and over 100 laptops yearly, so here's a look at our most recently reviewed laptops that didn't make this page either due to a fault, price, battery life, display brightness, or something else.

Acer Swift 16 AI | Intel Core Ultra 7 256V | Intel Arc 140V integrated graphics | 16GB RAM | 1TB SSD

Score: ★★★½

Pros: Vivid, high-resolution OLED display; pleasantly clacky keys; better than expected speakers; solid battery life

Cons: Display could be brighter; not great for heavy multitasking; keyboard is too large for small hands; subpar webcam

See our full Acer Swift 16 AI (Intel) review.

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Asus ProArt P16 | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Nvidia RTX 4070 | 32GB RAM | 2TB SSD

Score: ★★★★½

Pros: Stellar graphics performance; top-firing speakers; great touchpad and keyboard; competitive AI performance

Cons: Display could be brighter; below-average battery life

See our full Asus ProArt P16 review.

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Asus Zenbook S 16 | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | AMD Radeon 890M | 32GB RAM | 1TB SSD

Score: ★★★★

Pros: Unique design; decent OLED display; powerful performance; solid graphics; long battery life

Cons: Mediocre keyboard and touchpad; slow SSD

See our full Asus Zenbook S 16 review.

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HP Elite x360 1040 G11 | Intel Core Ultra 7 165H | Intel Arc Graphics | 16GB RAM | 512TB SSD

Score: ★★★★

Pros: Svelte design; superb keyboard and touchpad experience; strong performance; 3-year warranty with 3 years of security features

Cons: It has the business laptop tax; display comes with too many caveats; middling battery life

See our full HP Elite x360 1040 G11 review.

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HP Omnibook Ultra Flip 14 | Intel Core Ultra 7 258V | Intel Arc integrated graphics | 32GB RAM | 2TB SSD

Score: ★★★★

Pros: Surprisingly solid gaming performance; sharp OLED display; good webcam and microphone

Cons: Mediocre overall performance; no USB Type-A ports

See our full HP Omnibook Ultra Flip 14 review.

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Lenovo Chromebook Duet 11 Gen 9 | MediaTek Kompanio 838 | MediaTek Mali-G57 MC3 integrated graphics | 4GB RAM | 128GB SSD

Score: ★★★★

Pros: Solid battery life; high-quality 5MP front-facing camera and 8MP rear camera; affordable price-point; ultra-light chassis; good performance for the price; slick stylus and gesture controls

Cons: Mushy keyboard on the attached folio; having 4GB memory does limit some applications

See our full Lenovo Chromebook Duet 11 Gen 9 review.

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Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i 14 Gen 7 | Intel Core i5-1235U | Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics | 8GB RAM | 512 GB SSD

Score: ★★★½

Pros: Snappy keyboard; great value; variety of ports; good webcam

Cons: Poor speakers; wobbly display; off-center touchpad; battery life is on the short side

See our full Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i 14 Gen 7 review.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 review | Intel Core Ultra 7 155U | Intel integrated graphics | 16GB RAM | 512GB SSD

Score: ★★★

Pros: Great webcam; surprisingly pleasing keyboard; solid external sound

Cons: Deflating battery life; mushy trackpad for clicking; the chassis bends a little; a bit chunky

See our full Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 review.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X13 2-in-1 Gen 5 | Intel Core Ultra 7 155U | Intel integrated graphics | 16GB RAM | 1TB SSD

Score: ★★★

Pros: Colorful screen; bouncy keyboard; silky touchpad

Cons: Dim display; cramped keyboard; tiny touchpad; middling performance; short battery life

See our full Lenovo ThinkPad X13 2-in-1 Gen 5 review.

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How to find your perfect touchscreen laptop

Whether you're looking for a clamshell or a 2-in-1, there are a few key things to keep in mind before you buy a touchscreen laptop.

Display: You need something bright and sharp

Touchscreen laptops aren't exclusively reserved for artists and designers but many use them. (Some even come with a stylus.) If you're looking for your next digital sketchbook or canvas, you absolutely need a display that can accommodate your creative endeavors. If it's too dim or can't accurately present color, you most likely will be disappointed.

OLED displays generally produce the richest colors with the widest color gamuts, but there are also good IPS displays out there. 80% coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut should be your minimum if you're an artist, but you'll be better off the closer you get to 100% (or higher in some cases).

We also recommend getting a laptop with a high resolution display since they present sharper images. If you're an artist or designer who creates highly detailed work, a 2K display or higher will let you get into the nitty gritty.

Design: Sturdy portability is a necessity

Flexibility is vital, especially for 2-in-1 laptops. Not only do its hinges need to support up to 360-degree angles, but trying to draw or tapping on a screen that constantly bounces becomes a headache real quick. Creaky hinges and a lid that feels like it'll snap off every time you lift it are an absolute no.

The best touchscreen laptops support themselves in any position and require conscious force to open and close the lid. Laptops with an aluminum chassis are usually the sturdiest, but you'll want to read our reviews and see which ones feel the best in practice.

We also recommend getting a light laptop, anything around four pounds. Depending on the size, some can be a little heavier or lighter, though.

Battery life: The longer the better

Battery life is another key component of any good laptop. If you travel a lot, walk back and forth across campus multiple times a day, or draw in the park against your favorite tree for hours on end, don't count on there being an outlet! Consider a laptop that gets at least nine to ten hours of battery life. That should be enough to get you through most of a day.

FAQs

Q: What's the difference between a Chromebook and a laptop?

A: While a Chromebook is still a laptop, Chromebooks run a lightweight operating system called ChromeOS. It's designed for doing basic productivity tasks inside a web browser (via the cloud) instead of running programs on the laptops itself. Some programs that were once only available on Windows and macOS, are now accessible via a browser. Adobe Photoshop is one of them, but it don't have as many tools and features like its desktop version.

But if the only program you run on a daily basis is a web browser and don't need a laptop for anything more complicated than checking emails or writing essays, then a Chromebook should work fine for you.

Q: What is a Copilot+ PC?

A: Microsoft has specific requirements as to what it considers a Copilot+ PC. One of those requirements is that a laptop's processor must have an NPU capable of reaching at least 40 TOPS to run more advanced Windows AI features like Recall, Automatic super resolution, and Live Captions.

Copilot+ PCs have a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite or Plus, an Intel Core Ultra 200V series, or AMD Ryzen AI 300 series processor. However, the advanced AI features are currently only available on Snapdragon laptops. A free update for Intel and AMD laptops should be available to Windows Insiders by December 2024.

Q: How is Windows on ARM laptop different from a regular (x86) Windows laptop?

A: Windows on ARM laptops are configured with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite or Plus processor. Laptops with the x86 version of Windows are powered by either an Intel or AMD processor. Each Windows version uses a different instruction set (ARM or x86), so it needs a processor that can run it.

For most people, using one versions of Windows or the other shouldn't be an issue. But depending on what apps you use day to day, some might not be compatible with Windows on ARM. App compatibly is growing, but it's best to verify what you need will work before buying one of these laptops.

Q: I already have a stylus; will it work with one of these laptops?

A. That depends! Not all touchscreens have stylus support. The ones that do might not support the same type of pens. We recommend checking the manufacture's website of both the laptop and stylus to be absolutely sure.

This will help you determine what pen protocols the stylus and laptop support. The two main ones are Microsoft Pen Protocol (MPP) and Wacom AES. They're not intercompatible, but some pens support both, while others only support one.

How we test touchscreen laptops

We put each laptop through extensive benchmark testing—both synthetic and real-world—before we send it to our reviewers. We evaluate each aspect of the laptop, including its performance, battery life, display, speakers, and heat management. We benchmark Chromebooks as thoroughly as we do any laptop.

For synthetic performance, we run each laptop through a gauntlet of benchmarks, including Geekbench 6 and 3DMark professional graphics tests. On Chromebooks, we also use Geekbench 6 in addition to JetStream 2, WebXPRT 4, and CrXPRT 2 to determine their CPU and web performance.

To measure real-world performance on laptops, we: convert a 4K video to 1080p resolution; duplicate a 25GB multimedia file; and run the Sid Meier's Civilization 6 Gathering Storm benchmark with medium settings at 1080p resolution to test graphics

On both laptops and Chromebooks, we use a Klein K10 colorimeter to measure display brightness and DCI-P3 color gamut. To measure heat output, we play a 15-minute, full-screen video and then measure the surface temperature of different areas on the laptop.

For battery tests, we set the display to 150 nits of brightness and continuously web surf. For Chromebooks and premium Windows 11 laptops, a runtime of over nine hours is a good result.

These tests are complemented by extensive hands-on testing from our reviewers, who critique everything from the laptop's materials to the feel of its touchpad.

See this page on How We Test Laptops for more details on our benchmarking procedures.

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