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Touch comes to Dell, Toshiba Tablet PCs PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt   
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
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Although dual touch technology allowing the use of a stylus or a fingertip on a Tablet PC screen has been available for several years in selected models of competing brands, Dell’s first ever Tablet PC and Toshiba’s latest model improve dual touch screen technologies and take them truly mainstream.
One thing that has always irked me about the Tablet PC, the form factor of PC I’ve been using now for years over several notebook models, is the fact that it’s a touch screen format that doesn’t also let you use your fingertip in addition to a stylus to make selections on screen.

This was especially so after years of being able to use touch or a stylus with PDAs and touch-screen smartphones, something that continues today in virtually all touch models save the iPhone and iPod Touch.

That said, the ever-inventive nature of human beings means that even a stylus capable of fooling Apple’s latest handhelds into thinking it’s a fingertip can be created and is now on sale, namely the Pogo Stylus.

One of the problems for the Tablet PC world was creating a dual touch screen technology that could intelligent switch between fingertip and stylus use, as many previous models from competitors required the simple yet annoying process of manually switching between the two modes.

Now, both Dell and Toshiba have implemented dual touch technology that, while still not being multi-touch capable as with the iPhone and iPod Touch, at last make both finger touch and stylus control a headline feature, one that is expected to be popular with consumers wanting the Tablet PC experience.

Especially when it the ‘slate’ mode of convertible Tablet PCs, being able to use a finger is a much more natural action to scroll through documents, select actions and navigate the computer, while still having the precision a stylus provides, in addition to giving the writing capabilities a stylus offers.

Dell’s new machine is called the Latitude TX, and using ultra low voltage CPU parts (a Core 2 Solo ULV at 1.06Ghz or a Core 2 Duo ULV at 1.20Ghz) and comes with the option of an additional 9 hour battery ‘slice’ that connects to the base of the tablet (sold separately), among other technologies to extend battery life.

After 6 years of Tablet PC availability, Dell has had plenty of time to see what competitors have offered over the years and to discover what consumers want and expect from a Tablet PC, and have decided longer battery life at the expense of raw power was the way to go.

So, what else is in the Dell Latitude TX, how much does it cost, why is it $1000 more expensive than the Toshiba, and what's the Toshiba's killer feature? Please read onto page 2 to continue...
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