HP touchscreen notebooks coming in 18 months
Tapping a new market
HEWLETT PACKARD will have touchscreen notebooks on the market in 18 months according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
The Californian company best known for producing overpriced printer ink is following the lead of Apple's soon-to-be ubiquitous Iphone by using multi finger gestures and taps to simplify the user interface of its notebook computers.
"We're focused on recognizing the potential of touch now," said Phil McKinney, the chief technology officer for the company's laptop-making Personal Systems Group. "We see touch as the almost preferred method for nontechnical users."
The rise in popularity of touch-screen interfaces is hitting every sector of the technology industry with pretty much every major player trying to second-guess Apple on what they will do next.
Industry rumours abound about the next generation of Apple Ibookmacbookairbooks featuring fingerable screens, and some are even predicting a full-on tablet device but, as usual, the Cupertino Cabal likes to keep its goodies to itself. µ
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18 months
new models in 18 months?keyboard less models?
the HP TX1000 and TX2000 series are touch screen now
i've been using a TX1250 since september last year (although did double the RAM straight away), and it's touch screen is good when you get used to it.
And I got to use a TX 2000 seires last week and HP have made major improvements on the touch screen over the TX1000 series
Excuse ME
Please have a look at Dell's Latitude XT series...http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_xt?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04
Its a full touch screen tablet that is extremely light and better than HP's... Because its here NOW!!!
-T|K
in 18 Months or 18 months ago?
I've had a touchscreen hp notebook for over a year now, hell there are even drivers for it in linux!!!!You guys sure you got this right?
windows 7
maybe for the release of windows 7?er?
"We see touch as the almost preferred method for nontechnical users."um... so... nontechnical users would prefer not using touch? doh.