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touch screen laptop

320 points posted to Monitors and Displays, Laptops by jdelidc 08/29/07

my grandpa suggested this

bennish
08/29/07		 my grandpa suggested i promote it.

But my grandpa wants to know if you mean finger touch, or tablet?
bennish
08/29/07		 what if the screen doesn't rotate
bennish
08/29/07		 ...right... not sure you get the idea here .chris

this person is talking about a normal laptop that also has touchscreen. not a tablet. mmkay?
ikea
08/30/07		 A tablet and a touchscreen are two different things. I assume the guys grandpa means a normal laptop with touchscreen. Imo it's a great idea/option. Especially for older people it probably feels better to click on the screen where they see the button than with the mouse. :)
bennish
08/30/07		 .chris, what do you mean, 'why not have a tabl(e)t'? maybe a touch laptop would be nice... tablets need extra hardware to swivel, use pens, etc. Maybe a combo pda/laptop would be nice.

ps. jdelidc, and his grandfather, there are things like this out there. I know you're suggesting Dell do it, but pointing out others have
tekhawk
08/31/07		 @bennish i think your right a older person would want a touch screen laptop so its more hands on and easier to understand. a tablet would just confuse them even more though and very sorry old people but you tend to force things and might brake the screen off a tablet by not having it lined up right when moving it.
jdelidc
09/03/07		 cheaper to just build it that way from scratch. that's why i suggested it (personally, i hate laptops because of how hard they are to upgrade once they get home)
bennish
09/03/07		 there are touch overlays you can get for conventional monitors... would clip onto the laptop just fine. It's a fine mesh that is pressure sensitive.
 
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