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Toshiba Satellite U505 Touch & M505 Touch get Windows 7 multitouch

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 No Comments

Acer isn’t the only one with touch on the brain today, with Toshiba outing a range of new Windows 7 laptops of which two offer a multitouch display. The Toshiba Satellite U505 Touch (U505-S2980-T) and Satellite M505 Touch (M505-S4990-T) have 13.3-inch and 14-inch displays respectively, both use Intel’s Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz processor with 4GB of memory (8GB max) and pack 500GB hard-drives. Toshiba also load on their own touch-friendly software, including the Bulletin Board organizer and digital media display, and the ReelTime timeline-based history.

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Acer Aspire Timeline AS1810TZ 11.6-inch Win 7 ultraportable promises 8+ hours runtime

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 No Comments

It’s not quite the multitouch marvel, but Acer’s new 11.6-inch Aspire Timeline AS1810TZ does at least share the Windows 7 underpinnings of the company’s other new models today. The CULV ultraportable uses Intel’s dual-core processors and promises over 8hrs of runtime from the standard 6-cell battery.

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Acer Aspire AS5738PG multitouch notebook breaks cover with Windows 7

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 No Comments

Acer have announced their first touchscreen notebook, the Acer Aspire AS5738PG-6306, complete with Windows 7 and a 15.6-inch 1,366 x 768 multitouch-capable display. The AS5738PG supports one- or two-finger gestures on the screen, such as pinch-zoom, and is based on Intel’s 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo T6600 processor with 4GB of DDR2 memory and ATI Radeon HD 4570 512MB graphics.

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HP TouchSmart tx2, 300, 600 and 9100 get Windows 7 multitouch

By Vincent Nguyen on Monday, Oct 12th 2009 No Comments

HP have gone touch-crazy in the run-up to Windows 7’s release, pushing out several new touch-sensitive products including a 42-inch widescreen LCD. The HP TouchSmart tx2 updates the original convertible tx2, and has a 12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen which also accepts stylus input; meanwhile there are two new TouchSmart desktop ranges, in the shape of the consumer-oriented HP TouchSmart 300 and 600 – at 20- and 23-inches respectively – and the business-centric HP TouchSmart 9100, a 23-inch model targeted at the hospitality and retail markets.

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See Me, Feel Me… Touch Me?

By Michael Gartenberg on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 1 Comment

multitouch 201x166 custom We’re just a few weeks away from the formal launch of Windows 7 and I’ve been using the final build for some time now. It’s very nice and I’m sure most of you have seen it, used it or read about it to death. What I want to talk about over the next few weeks is various parts of Windows 7. One of the most intriguing parts of the new OS that Microsoft has talked about for some time has been the integration of touch features. While vendors such as HP have done their own touch implementations in the past (HP has gone as far as to offer their own touch-based SDK for developers) this is the first time since Microsoft unveiled their touch platform offering, Surface, that we’ve seen the OS vendor incorporate true finger-touch features directly into the OS.

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Mossberg: “Windows 7 beats the Mac OS in some areas”

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 8th 2009 1 Comment

walt mossberg 218x243 custom If you’re looking for inflammatory speech, search no more: everybody’s favorite bearded-uncle of tech, Walt Mossberg, has well and truly rammed his metaphorical review-poker into the flames of the Windows/Mac argument. In his review of Windows 7 for All Things D, Mossberg confesses that while “In recent years, I, like many other reviewers, have argued that Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is much better than Windows. That’s no longer true.”

Nonetheless, Mossberg is still leaning toward Apple overall, going to to confirm that “I still give the Mac OS a slight edge because it has a much easier and cheaper upgrade path; more built-in software programs; and far less vulnerability to viruses and other malicious software, which are overwhelmingly built to run on Windows.” Still, he confirms that “Now, however, it’s much more of a toss-up between the two rivals.”

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Kohjinsha dual-display netbook: feel the width

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 8th 2009 No Comments

Kohjinsha’s dinky swivel-screened MID, the PA-series, isn’t the only unusual rotation happening on the company’s stand at CEATEC. They’re also showing off this dual-screen beast, currently in prototype form, packing twin 10.1-inch LCDs for some mobile widescreen action. SlashGear Japan stopped by to grab some live photos for us.

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Sony VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV multitouch all-in-one debuts

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 8th 2009 No Comments

“Touch me, touch me” sang 80s legend Samantha Fox, “I want to feel your body,” and while the intentions of Sony’s new VAIO L Series of touchscreen desktops may be different, the sentiment is just the same. Announced alongside the skinny VAIO X, the L Series is being pushed – like other big-screen all-in-one PCs in Sony’s past – as a hybrid HDTV and computer, though with its 24-inch 1920 x 1080 display, optional Blu-ray and optional TV tuners we suppose it does have more of a claim than most. As for the touchscreen, that’s used not only for Windows 7’s multitouch functionality but to control Sony’s own Media Gallery DVR app.

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Windows 8 to debut 128-bit OS version?

By Cameron Lockwood on Wednesday, Oct 7th 2009 1 Comment

windows 8 concept logo Windows 7 is due to launch in just two weeks time, but Microsoft have been working on its immediate and distant successors for some time now. Details about so-called Windows 8 and Windows 9 (perhaps unlikely to be their real release titles) have emerged thanks to a LinkedIn profile of one of the team members involved. According to that developer, Robert Morgan, Windows 8 and 9 will both have some degree of 128-bit architecture compatibility, with the latter OS definitely supporting IA-128.

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Belkin shows off F5U279 Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7

By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Oct 7th 2009 No Comments

The wait for Windows 7 is almost over and those who have been anxiously anticipating the new OS hitting the market so they can upgrade from Windows XP or Vista may now be wondering exactly what the easiest way to upgrade their computers will be without losing their important data. Belkin has announced a new Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7 that will make the transition easier.

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