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VentureBeat: Watch out Apple: HP has discovered multi-touch technology for its notebook PCs

  • hardmanb · 1 year ago
    Kudos to HP for getting a multi-touch product out, and good luck. Soon consumers will have more choices, and the public will decide on the utility and which methods are actually useful. Whether Apple-style multitouch touchpad, or HP style multitouch screen, or some other...even the faithful mouse.

    There will be much partisan hype from fans and haters, and it will be so interesting to see what the public decides with their scarce dollars.
  • Mike_at_Wanna_Develop_COM · 1 year ago
    I like it...

    Nice and timely launch eh.. NOT! We'll see how it plays out
  • Nigel Holmes · 1 year ago
    Steve Jobs stated at the launch of the iPhone that they had multi touch very heavily patented "And, boy do we intend to protect them!"

    This ought to be interesting.
  • jimmy · 1 year ago
    Samsung Instinct is a touch screen phone too. The point is that having a touch screen is not enough. Neither the Samsung nor the HP desktop and laptop are well thought out or executed.
  • wcolbert · 1 year ago
    Very cool, but the hardware is just a piece of the pie. Its the user experience that Apple owns. That said, it looks like a really cool product, and I'd love to play with it and see how functional it is.
  • corinhorn · 1 year ago
    Personally, I don't see what the big deal is. The touchscreen makes perfect sense for handheld devices like phones or PDAs, but not for a desktop or notebook. If its a tablet, then lob off the keyboard and make it a tablet. Otherwise, your arms and productivity are going to be hurting from you continually going back and forth from the keyboard and the touchscreen. It is cool and nothing else.

    HP has had the TouchSmart touchscreen desktop for a while now, and people like it not because of its multi-touch capabilities, but rather its all-in-one form factor.

    A touch screen really doesn't offer anything new for the user experience and doesn't add any productivity enhancements. It only adds a "that's cool" factor.
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