New touchscreen laptop ...multitouch?

[mikerr]

Not many multitouch laptops out:

Dell XT2:
dell XT2 multitouch

vs

HP TX2:
hp TX2 multitouch

Any more... ?


Unsure whether to forego multitouch and save a few hundred quid for a standard touchscreen...

Alos softwarewise I suppose OneNote is great on touchscreens, any paint apps specifically designed for touchscreens?

[alsenior]

Lenovo X200

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/c...4A498D2E83D8B1

[Spud1]

Those are the only ones that I could find...

I was tempted by one of the XT2's, but they are so slow...so I bought one of the TX2's today Awesome little machines - the newer models do not suffer from the heat/noise/speed issues of the previous models, and multi-touch on windows 7 really is amazing to use. Simple things such as scrolling or zooming work in almost any application, and the gestures in album/media center etc are pretty cool.

Works great as a standard laptop too - keyboard is big enough and nice to type on, although the laptop is a bit heavy for its size.

Cost me £750 for the 1160ea version - very pleased with it

[mikerr]

Yeah, I bought the HP TX2 in the end too.

The preloaded vista was crap and so full of bloatware it took ages to boot.
Bad job HP!

So I put in a SSD drive, and loaded windows 7.

Totally amazing machine - only downsides are:

1. AMD chipset runs hotter than other laptops, and so the fan comes on a fair amount (alot less less using power-saver profile though..)

2. The screen has a slight grainyness due to the touchscreen overlay,
but that's not a problem for me.

[r3loaded]

I reckon multitouch laptops will come out after Windows 7 is released. There's not much point selling one with Vista, so I think they're biding their time.