"We see touch as the almost preferred method for nontechnical users."

um... so... nontechnical users would prefer not using touch? doh.

maybe for the release of windows 7?

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?

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

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