Windows 8 may be designed to play well with tablets and all-in-one desktop PCs with touchscreen displays. But you can also use some of those touch-friendly features even without a touchscreen. You just need a laptop with a multitouch trackpad — or a mouse or other accessory that lets you tap, swipe, pinch, and scroll. […]
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Microsoft patent describes a multitouch digital pen
Multitouch screens on smartphones and tablets are all the rage these days. But Microsoft is looking at bringing multitouch functionality to another tool: a digital pen. The company has applied for a patent on a multitouch ePen that changes its function depending on how you hold it. You’d still be able to use the pen […]
Asus Zenbook Prime UX21A ultrabook gets a touchscreen option
The Asus Zenbook Prime UX21A is an ultrabook with an Ivy Bridge processor and an 11.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display. Now it looks like Asus also plans to offer an optional touchscreen display. This doesn’t make the Zenbook Prime UX21A a tablet. It’s still a clamshell-style laptop. But when you open the lid […]
Dell’s Windows 8 tablets won’t be dirt cheap
Dell has already unveiled plans to introduce tablets running Windows 8 once Microsoft launches the new operating system later this year. Now CEO Michael Dell is providing (a few) more details. Speaking to investors about the company’s earnings, Dell said that the company will have tablets ready to go as soon as Windows 8 launches. […]
Apple won’t be launching converged tablets, notebooks… yet
Apple makes a lot of money selling touchscreen tablets, smartphones, and portable media devices. In fact, the company now makes more money from iOS products than it does from pricey laptop and desktop computers running OS X. So when you look at the latest versions of OS X which offer support for full-screen apps and […]
Intel: Touchscreen ultrabooks coming in late 2012
Today’s ultrabooks are basically thin and light laptops. But by the end of the year, we could also see convertible tablets as well as standard-shaped notebooks with touchscreen displays join the ultrabook party. Intel has been talking about touch-capable ultrabooks for a few months. But now the company is giving us a few ideas of […]
List of Windows 8 touch-based gestures
Windows 8 Consumer Preview runs reasonably well on netbooks as well as other notebook or desktop computers. But clearly the new Metro-style user interface was designed to be touched. So when the folks at Kupa offered to send me a Kupa X11 tablet loaded with the latest pre-release version of Windows 8, I jumped at […]
Intel thinks touchscreens on notebooks make sense – do you?
Intel is showing off a reference design for an ultrabook with a touchscreen display. It’s not a convertible tablet, since you can’t fold the laptop flat and still use the touchscreen. It’s just a notebook — with a touch-sensitive display. You can use the touchscreen much like you’d use any phone or tablet touch interface. […]
Intel showcases ultrabook concepts with touch, sensors, more
Intel is showing off new concepts for upcoming thin and light laptops, or ultrabook computers. New feature Intel envisions include laptops with touchscreen displays, g-sensors and accelerometers, and gesture-based input that lets you interact with a computer without even touching it. One of the coolest new concepts is something Intel calls Nikiski. It’s a thin […]
Closer look at Chrome OS for tablets: video
Google’s Chrome OS is an operating system designed to put a web browser front-and-center. Laptops running the operating system (also called Chromebooks) boot in just about 10 seconds and the first thing you see after logging in is a browser window. But while Google is targeting notebook computers first, some of the folks behind Chrome […]