Why is a laptop with a combination of a touchscreen and a decent graphics card ridiculously expensive, but cheap with only one of these?

[tesseramous]

A modern laptop with barebones settings, no touchscreen and no graphics card or upgrades will cost about $600.

 

The same laptop with a touchscreen but still no graphics card will cost about $700.

 

A laptop with no touchscreen, but with a decent graphics card like a 1050ti and beefed up memory/storage speciifcations will run about $800.

 

However, if you try to look for a laptop with BOTH a touchscreen and a graphics card / decent specifications, suddenly you rocket into the $1500-$2000 range.

 

Why is this? Why is the laptop with both a touchscreen and decent specifications so much greater than the sum of its parts? Is there some serious thermal conflict between the two technologies?
 

[Gegger]

i'm guessing that a laptop with a touchscreen is probably used more for taking notes and the like, less gaming/heavy office loads

[tesseramous]

Some might want to use their laptop for dual purposes and this does not explain why it costs another $1,000 to add a graphics card

[ckinfos]

touchscreens are cheap. at least cheaper than gpus. Gpus require advanced thermal anticipation or more space , materials and so on.

[tesseramous]

Why cant you take an $800 laptop with a gpu, and add a 'cheap touchscreen' to it and make it a $900 laptop? Why does it become a $2000 laptop?