I've been playing around with my new HP TouchSmart tx2 for a couple of days now and while I'm generally satisfied I'm not not stoked. It works fairly well with touch and pen input, but the screen is really hazy due, I suspect, to the multi-touch screen layer. Also, the touch is not as responsive as I would like and the touch feedback could be better - its hard to tell if you touched the button or not.My kids, who got a taste of it the day I received the TouchSmart, can't get enough of it. My son was knocking on my office door at 8 am yesterday asking if he could play with "Papa's new computer".
So, being stratified but not stoked, I decide to try my luck on another multi-touch PC, the Asus Eee PC T91MT which is a bit under powered but is dirt cheap. At $532.00 total (on Amazon.com) its a great deal. A couple of things I really like about the Asus Eee PC T91MT:
- Price: at a little over $500.00 its a steal.
- Screen Size: It has a small 8.9 inch screen, bigger than an iPhone, smaller than a notebook
- It's under-powered: It's good to test your development projects on an underpowered unit.
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Interesting video, but I'm surprised with the commentaries around 0:35. Is Asus Lying about palm rejection and pressure sensitivity ?
Well, the device shipped yesterday so I should be able to say from first hand experience next week.
That whole video is a fabrication, not in terms of features but just the fact that its all animated rather than a real video. So anything they say on the video should be taken with a grain of salt.
I own this T91MT (from NewEgg), great netbook for basic web surfing and watching some videos. Great battery life even without power saving settings. I wouldn't call it multitouch though as it only recognizes maximum of 2 finger points at once, I call that DUALTOUCH! I was expecting more than a dualtouch touchscreen :(
It won't even play youtube or HULU videos (unless you download them first) that I so hoped for either (even tried on LAN connection incase WIFI was to blame, but nope). Forget trying to use Google Earth! I could only upgrade the ram as high as 2GB and you cannot give more RAM to the internal video card.
In the promo videos from Asus showing this unit and touch screen applications running nice and smooth is a farce. When you flick images, they are not smoooth, scrolling pages or button sets, they will not follow the speed of your fingers, sometimes you are not sure if your click was even registered as the PC is busy catching up. Their videos are a bit decieving (actually very decieiving considering I believed their fake videos).
It plays most downloaded movie files I have (as long as you find most recent video card drivers from Intel, Asus doesn't even give you these), great for all my 720p DivX vids (1080 may not play).
Great for FLAC and MP3 playback.
Tried Windows XP and Vista on it, Windows 7 runs best.
I have tried some emulators of old 8bit & 16bit games (I am a fan of old games). NES & SNES works perfect. Sega Genesis and Master System roms play fine. GBA most games ran well. Majority of MAME games would play (use GlovePie and your WiiMote). A few n64 games ran ok. DosBox with games like DOOM, Blood, etc work well too. I wouldn't expect to get more gaming from this unit, lucky if PC games made before 2000 will play smoothly.
You can install Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition on Windows 7 and I even found a download to install Microsoft's Surface applications (Google "Touch Pack Drop 4").
I may not give it a good review, but I like it more than the Apple Ipad!
http://www.GigahertzInc.com
Really? You prefer it to iPad. I can't imagine why.
Anyway, nice feedback on the Asus. I sent my Asus back about two weeks.
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