HP’s TouchSmart PC
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At CES, there was quite a buzz around HP’s new Touch Smart PC. The TouchSmart IQ770 is designed for family, and paired with the newly announced HP Home server this little all in one unit will be HP’s crown jewel in entertainment hub of you house. Utilizing Windows Vista Home Premium (But then again who is exactly sure what version of Vista offers what), this little guy is ready to take a central role in your families computing life.
It is built with a wide aspect touch screen display, TV tuner, AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, Lightscribe DVD burner, built in webcam, and wireless everything (802.11, Bluetooth, Keyboard and Mouse)
Pricing has yet to be announced, but it is rumored to be in the $1,300 – $1,400 range.
Aint bad at all, I have a touchscreen lcd hangin in our entry way that is connected to a very basic box .It is connected to all other computers in the house and used is for music storage quick news feeds. I wil soon drop the xp head and connect a mac mini up to it when i can find the drivers for it.
I have to admit the Spec’s do sound really nice, and with the touch screen that is a boon for small kids.
jeeze too pricy for me, I think i’ll just take a junky old laptop and get a cheap touch screen, run linux on it, and bam, same thing, dirt cheap. Seriously, why would you need 2 gigs of ram for a computer that’s hanging on your wall?? Isn’t it just supposed to be for notes and little music and things? I doubt anyone’s going to be doing video encoding or hard core gaming on this thing. 2 gigs is overkill, and too expensive.
it drives me nuts that they didn’t combine wacom and resistive touch that would have given us the best of both worlds in terms of usability