http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/ Engadget Comments for Dell's Latitude XT tablet goes multi-touch with a free upgrade, offers 128GB SSD for $649 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/

I hope the new Latitude XT has a better choice in graphics capabilities than the practically useless Intel built-in version...


...a dedicated card couldn't hurt... it's a graphics tablet AND a notebook, after all. No point in keeping its graphics capabilities handicapped.]]>Jul 14th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
I forgot about this until installed Adobe CS3 on mine and found Photoshop to not recognize pen pressure. :(]]>Jul 14th 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 14th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/

Try running SolidWorks on a tablet with a dedicated graphics card, and on another tablet with the Intel substitute. Get back to me to tell me about the experience.


Tablets are the best things around for solid modelling. It is disappointing when manufacturers limit the graphics options.



By the way, the Lattitude XT uses an ATI chip, but leeches memory off of the system RAM. Don't know how much better it is than the Intel offering, but it is certainly underpowered compared to the dedicated options.



@toryan

Are you sure the pressure sensitivity feature is missing on the Dell? I thought N-Trig screens allowed pressure sensitivity with the stylus. Photoshop CS might have an option to enable it, in its settings page.]]>Jul 14th 2008 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
So while they're obviously not as good as a proper graphic card, they do their job well enough.]]>Jul 14th 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
My Lenovo X61t runs Solid Works just fine, both on the tablet screen itself and when outputting to a 1680x1024 monitor. Integrated X3100 with 384 MB RAM, 4GB of RAM under Vista. 1.8ghz LV Core2Duo.]]>Jul 14th 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
The n-Trig digitizer is pressure sensitive, which is evident in the TIP, although I can't figure out how to get it to work in Photoshop.]]>Jul 14th 2008 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
That's not saying much... I can get Half-Life 2 running pretty smoothly on a tc1100 =D]]>Jul 15th 2008 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 15th 2008 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 14th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 14th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 14th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
Expect them to try to emulate this in the future, but make it off-white, lack of optical drive, lack of USB ports, lack of card reader slots, lack of well perhaps even the most rudimentary of features, and then watch the Apple fanboys come out from the woodworks praising Apple for their ingenuity.

Then, 5 years down the line, when yet another PC manufacturer releases a revamped version of these tablets, the vacuous sheeple that is the Apple fanboy community will all together flock to the forums to denounce it as a copy, an imitation, all the while oblivious of their own ignorance.]]>Jul 14th 2008 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 14th 2008 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
This is very cool. I'd like to see people start making specifically multi-touch programs for the notebooks as they become more popular, hopefully this will start a trend of manufacturers including as many cool gadgets as possible for the purpose of being able to upgrade existing units via update patches, etc... to make use of previously useless devices.]]>Jul 14th 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
With an attitude like that, how do you ever expect to regain your Apple Fanboy membership card?

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Oh, and to have some on-topic stuff here as well: Cool to see the first multitouch laptop, and the quite reasonable SSD prices.]]>Jul 14th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 14th 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://blog.laptopmag.com/exclusive-hands-on-with-dells-xt-tablet-now-with-multi-touch

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so please, explain functional to me as i'd love to know exactly what 'benefits' you get from dell that you don't from apple besides a different os?

thanks, i'll wait. go, quickly run to the boards to find some myth to work with!

douchebag.]]>Jul 14th 2008 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Point 1: I have a non-Tablet PC Dell. It fell apart after a single year of use, though it did get repaired after much quarrelling with Dell support. Our house also has a 1998 VAIO which works just fine.
Point 2: I have a non-Dell Tablet PC. Except for artists and on-the-go people, there is not much use. Oh, and for children. And for Portal gamers who could use an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Stylus, except most of these Tablet PC's don't have a half-decent GPU.
Mid-conclusion: Dell Tablet PC's would come apart uselessly.
Point 3: What I like is the price. Nice specs for a Tablet PC, and it goes for just $649. Oh... that's just the price of the hard drive? For $649 I could buy an iPhone 3G with no commitment and something that costs $50 that I can't think up right now!
Conclusion: I'm skipping the XT for now. Wake me up when the thing goes for $649 *with* the SSD drive. You'll probably need to come to a cryogenic facility.]]>Jul 14th 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Who would buy an iPhone instead of a tablet PC? They do totally different things. iPhones cant edit word documents or even save them. Just view. So STFU Apple fanboy!]]>Jul 14th 2008 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Now, you say 64GB is a great price. Dell always offers nice conveniences for lower prices and they always end up being highly inconvenient. The Inspiron E1705 I have did not have Stereo Mix support until quite recently. Dell is incredibly restrictive in its product support, which is why I had to fight to get a battery replaced that I requested to be replaced before the limited warranty expired.
Besides, currently any SSD is unreasonably priced for me. For $649, I can buy four 500GB hard drives, which totals to 2TB. Sure, SSD is lightning fast (or that's what people say), but hard drives should work almost as well with regular maintenance.]]>Jul 16th 2008 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/All these other companies are using some form of touch based computing technology....BUT NOT MULTI-TOUCH!
Apple bought fingerworks and then that was that. Only Apple now owns the patent on the technology known as "multi-touch".

]]>Jul 14th 2008 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
This laptop uses a capacitive touch digitizer manufactured by an Israeli company called N-Trig, who do own patents for their integration of capacitive touch sensors and an active digitizer in a self-contained unit.]]>Jul 14th 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/
Here's an older case study on how we use Tablets (MS test bed)
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/customerevidence/6814_Johnson_Braud_OneNote_Case_Study.doc

When the Dell XT2 arrives this fall, I'll order a couple the same day. The XT works well, but the lack on the onboard disk drive is troublesome.]]>Jul 14th 2008 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/good to see though that something more is done in this direction]]>Jul 15th 2008 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 15th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 15th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/dells-latitude-xt-tablet-goes-multi-touch-with-a-free-upgrade/Jul 20th 2008 11:21AM