Asus' Dual Panel Touchscreen PC Concept
Things were already a bit touchy-feely at the Asus booth at CeBit with the company’s EeePC T91GO. Fighting for the spotlight, there’s the Dual Panel touchscreen PC.
Despite being “just a concept,” the notebook is impressive none the less. The display models were labeled with some anti-social “do not touch” signs but according to Engadget, the models on hand were running Windows 7 and the onscreen keyboard looked pretty decent.
Credit: EngadgetWhat’s your take on the touch screen craze going on at the moment? We’ve already seen two netbook tablets this week and now we’re seeing this concept model of a Dual Panel touchscreen PC. We’re all for notebooks (or netbooks) that convert into tablets but we’re not sure we like this idea of giving up our keyboards in favor of a virtual one; and for these to be in any way successful, the pricing will need to be pretty competitive.
What do you reckon -- you into it?
On the other hand, I really cant see power users, gamers, or workplace professionals taking touch-screen technology in to the mainstream.
I think that the keyboard and mouse approach, no matter what they look like (trackball, ergonomic, small/compact form, etc...) will always be the primary demand for a computer just due to the functionality of both. I can't see engineers or CADD users doing all their work on a touchscreen, or even a voice input computer either.
Keyboard and mouse is just too solid of a design, and too near perfect for functionality.
(Let's not discuss the Nintendo DS emulation possibilites, haha!)
Artists use illustrator with touch technology to speed up their work.
There is a niche, it isn't a huge one, but it is there.
If touchscreen laptops became the mainstream, I'd be jumping in joy!
Ever since I saw a multi-touch interface demo for the first time this exact form factor is all I have wanted: unlimited interfaces instead of 2 and only 2, unless you bolt on extra peripherals and maroon yourself on a spaghetti island of wires.
I love it, but there's no way you could use it for a normal laptop really.. simple note taking in lectures or while out and about would be great, and you could use it for collaboration by lying it flat on the table..
if they can make it multi-touch, that'd be even better