Yeah, I find that more exciting than the One. It's got to suck for Dell to have multitouch support, but no apps yet. On the other hand, it's exciting to hear that there's a notebook-sized multitouch display on the market (I'd only heard of cell-phone-sized and large rear-projection versions) so that developers can start developing.
Multi-touch here refers to accepting inputs from multiple fingers/etc. at the same time ( allowing for things like the pinching and stretching gestures seen on the iPhone, Microsoft Surface, and this demo).
The multi-touch that Lenovo uses is a reference to the ability to use either a finger or a stylus (non multi-touch displays would only work with a stylus or only work with a finger, but not both, depending on whether they were active or passive).
So it is interesting to see Dell offering this, especially with all the speculation that Apple is preparing some sort of tablet Mac which would use the multi-touch interface of the iPhone.
As soon as apple releases one, engadget will make a blog entry about apple revolutionizing computers and calling it a first. Its basically gonna be an echo of steve job's very exaggerated truth.
Multi-touch is kind of like having multiple mice being used on the same keyboard. It's really only truly effective if there's software designed to take advantage of the input.
Apple doesn't claim *often* to do things first. It does things "right". Make of that what you will.
this thing looks like a Apple keynote gone bad lol, look at michael dell he got no clue what the device is. its like they can smell Apple cooking a similar device call the apple Newton which will debut in about 2 months At Macworld and they wanna take the lead
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Loki @ Nov 14th 2007 7:43PM
wow. who would have thought dell would be the first to bring multi-touch to tablets.
rich @ Nov 14th 2007 7:55PM
@Loki
Umm....Lenovo has had multitouch XGA since the X60 tablets. I know because I had one before swapping it for a regular X60T
morcheeba @ Nov 14th 2007 7:55PM
Yeah, I find that more exciting than the One. It's got to suck for Dell to have multitouch support, but no apps yet. On the other hand, it's exciting to hear that there's a notebook-sized multitouch display on the market (I'd only heard of cell-phone-sized and large rear-projection versions) so that developers can start developing.
Zadillo @ Nov 14th 2007 8:00PM
@rich:
Multi-touch here refers to accepting inputs from multiple fingers/etc. at the same time ( allowing for things like the pinching and stretching gestures seen on the iPhone, Microsoft Surface, and this demo).
The multi-touch that Lenovo uses is a reference to the ability to use either a finger or a stylus (non multi-touch displays would only work with a stylus or only work with a finger, but not both, depending on whether they were active or passive).
So it is interesting to see Dell offering this, especially with all the speculation that Apple is preparing some sort of tablet Mac which would use the multi-touch interface of the iPhone.
Me @ Nov 14th 2007 8:02PM
As soon as apple releases one, engadget will make a blog entry about apple revolutionizing computers and calling it a first. Its basically gonna be an echo of steve job's very exaggerated truth.
Aaron @ Nov 14th 2007 8:39PM
@rich
Get your facts right.
Hung @ Nov 14th 2007 9:06PM
@ Aaron
Way to jump the Douche Express.
dagamer34 @ Nov 14th 2007 9:23PM
@Me
Multi-touch is kind of like having multiple mice being used on the same keyboard. It's really only truly effective if there's software designed to take advantage of the input.
Apple doesn't claim *often* to do things first. It does things "right". Make of that what you will.
snitch @ Nov 14th 2007 11:13PM
this thing looks like a Apple keynote gone bad lol, look at michael dell he got no clue what the device is.
its like they can smell Apple cooking a similar device call the apple Newton which will debut in about
2 months At Macworld and they wanna take the lead
Unregistered @ Nov 14th 2007 11:52PM
@Me
you can look into the future?