How keen are you on touchscreens? Keen enough to navigate Windows 7 while using such a monitor? Acer has a new one, the T230H, which will allow you to do exactly that. A big selling point is that it’ll increase your productivity, but I’m not so sure.
I mean, is it easier to use a touchscreen to navigate Excel, or flip about Firefox? You’ll still have a keyboard, I should think, so it’s not like the iPhone where you’re forced to get used to this radical, new interface; you have no other choice. Here, you’re split between touching the screen and typing away on a traditional keyboard.
But I’m still not the biggest fan of touchscreens yet, so my bias is palpable.
Anyhow, the specs:
• 16:9, 23-inch, 1920×1080 LCD.
• HDMI interface
• 2ms response time, which should placate the twitch gaming crowd
• 80,000:1 contrast ratio
And so on. Again, there’s got to be a market for these things, but I’m not so sure I’m a part of it.
I think it would be cool to make a RTS that would take advantage of touchscreens. Like starcraft…. but if they did that to starcraft2 then we would we waiting another year.
Who wants to touch the screen? I always tell people once “please don’t touch the screen” and then I say “stop touching my screen!”
What I’m saying is, this seems like the wrong interaction model for touch computing.
Shame it’s not better than HD, though.
The only negative about these is the price. I bet it will cost $500+ which not many people can afford..
I bought myself a 9 inch made in china touch screen with 2meters of VGA cable for $100 (more affordable price). The fun thing about that is its small enough to take to bed with me so i can enjoy the full 2×3GHz speed and the full flash 10 support of my computer even in bed or on the sofa. Can’t really do that with this one though.
Overall, I highly recommend this product to potential purchasers.
Pros: 1) At the time of purchase (October 31, 2009), the Acer T230H is the largest multi-touch display available.
2) It brings out the multi-touch capabilities of any Windows 7 laptop/desktop.
3) It can be moved from computer to computer as needed. We have tested it on both laptops and desktops running Windows 7 and it performs flawlessly.