Touch Screen Laptops

This is a feature that, until the beginning of 2010, was only really enjoyed on the small, like PDAs and phones, and the large like desktop systems and other monitor-required applications, commercial and industrial.

With the launch of Windows7 comes Windows Touch, essentially opening up the market to turn any application into a touch screen environment, and especially exciting is the now rampant launch of touch screen laptops and notebooks.

A few of the new touch screen laptops that have become popular include the Fujitsu Lifebook T4410 (shown), which features a slim design and a beautiful locking swivel monitor, and convenient on-screen one-touch buttons for quick access to applications, and functions in both landscape and portrait. Supplied with the unit is a stylus with a pen and eraser, but also works with finger touch. One of the pitfalls is that the adapter is massive, making the portable weight of all required elements over 5 pounds. An odd addition to the unit is a dust screen, which actually requires upkeep, not a lot, but just something else to deal with.

Another laptop making some buzz is the Lenovo Thinkpad T400s, which is a little lighter than the Fujitsu but doesn't have a swivel monitor and doesn't come with a stylus, so anyone that requires the ability to do any detailed work, nor is it available on this model. The laptop uses surface capacitive technology to track the touch screen inputs, which means that the screen needs to bleed off energy into the touch device, so the touch has to have the ability to absorb it, making most inanimate objects useless in this capacity. The Lenovo is also a little more money than the Fujitsu laptop, but the technology makes up for it, with 6MB chip cache, 4GB of RAM and a DVD drive.

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