Eee PC gets modded with a touchscreen
By Nilay Patel 
posted Dec 19th 2007 9:07PM
posted Dec 19th 2007 9:07PM
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Now he just needs to convert it to flip screen.
LoL
Wow, that's really, really cool. That'd also be nice to see if it were mass produced, though I guess it'd be a very niche market.
Wow... I wonder how much that would sell for on eBay...
How about a bigger screen AND make it a flip screen? :)
^^^ Sorry, Stupid AI Roboform saved my last comment.
It look nice and cosmetically usable. Wish they hack a 1.8" HDD into it next.
i get the feeling a HDD would make the decent battery life drop to a shit number.
someone did, but the drive was too big to fit in the case
this is completely relevant.
NOT
i make a not joke, VERY NICE
Awesome mod, although I think:
a) If you're running the UXTheme patch, you may as well be running a 3rd party visual style that maximizes screen real-estate. That start button is fat as fuck.
b) I hope that was a 2-in-1 stylus and pen and not just a retracted ball point pen. If you've got $60 to spend on a touch-screen on eBay, drop $3 for a proper stylus.
FYI
the pen came with the touch screen,so naturally it is made for use on the touch screen, stewpig
Its not a Hacked UXTheme.dll, its the Microsoft Zune theme by Microsoft. Its signed so it runs w/o the hacked dll. I'm using it right now, its pretty good.
Holy EEE batman! It has a touch screen!
Now find a xga 7" screen...
i would like to see a screen that actually fills up that panel first... seems only proper with all of that space around the current screen that someone jack around with it and get a bigger one in there...
Yes, and it would be so easy to read it...
True but you'll have to relocate the speakers somewhere else...
What's the boot-up time for these things? XP or the native OS?
I've got a 701A 4G that gets to the sign-in screen in 25 seconds. In easy mode, that's completely on. I run mine with the advanced desktop (no real reason, just doesn't look so kid-oriented) which is ready in another 25 seconds with wi-fi already locked onto my router and ready to browse. I think it's pretty quick. I've not modded it at all, yet, and will likely wait a bit, but there are some pretty serious enthusiasts plugging away.
www.eeeuser.com
all touchscreens have one problem. user interface. it was designed to work with mouse, not fingers!
look at scrolling on this...and then eg. the iPhone...you don't have to try hit the precious little scrollbar, you just...scroll with your finger...
....-_-' sigh... And I hoped at least one article about touchscreens would be spared but your kind...
What you're talking about is a software issue (the equivalent of a click and hold), not a hardware issue. FYI, the iPhone has a touchscreen.
This is awesome. I'll take two.
I wants.
Error in the "mods" link
New comments FTW.
cool I like it
so....tired...of....hearing.....about....the....eee....
you could just buy a $430 dell, and the 12" powerbook is just as "mini-like" if you know what i mean. Well, it sort of is. But I'm really tired of two stories about this every day.
Nice...
Id sure love to have one of those.
I hope to see more hacks in the future. This might make me buy one.
The screen doesn't fold down in tablet mode though.
Is it just me, or did anyone else think he was using a voice synth, instead of his real voice? Reminded me of "S.A.M.", from the Atari, early 80's....
Reminded me of a DJ Shadow snippet: "Welcome to Fear, Side Two".
Definitely the same voice. ;-)
Nope just Finnish, common misconception.
Running Vista, surely?
Actually the Eee reminds me of 3COM Audrey. While it was not a lappy but a network appliance that never took off, you could buy it on eBay for next to nothing and that too had a touch screen, a pen and a keyboard, plus a dedicated cohort of hackers making it better than what it originally was.
That is impressive, but what's with that huge keyboard down there? Why bother with a touchscreen if you don't have a tablet mode?
My old touchscreen laptop was rather useless. I never used the feature.
yay
Futureshop had a sale for 25Gb blu ray discs at 7$ each.
@ joseph
WHAAAAT???