14 DAY TRIAL // This year, touch-enabled notebooks are expected to reach 24 million or so, a 400% increase over 2012. That would put them at 10% or a bit more of the total laptop market.
This percentage won't last though, according to IHS iSuppli analyst firm. And I mean that in a good way.
Long story short, mobile computers that also have touchscreens will keep shipping more and more each year.
Thus, they will make up a quarter of the industry by 2016, which means their shipments level will be somewhere around the 78 million figure.
Prices for low-end 14-inch capacitive touchscreens have been falling, which will help a lot, and I can imagine the same happening to all other sizes.
It all boils down to whether or not prospective buyers remain prospective. Which is to say, whether or not people continue to show strong interest in laptops and Windows 8.