Dell's new all-in-one
Studio One 19 is due to start shipping soon, and it's packing some interesting new multitouch capabilities which Dell has been kind enough to demo briefly on video. There's a new touchable launch bar, which give access to Dell's own touch-friendly apps (see the second video after the break), though Dell's Josh Duncan (video one) made sure to reiterate that gestures should carry over to non touch specific apps -- which pretty much means Internet Explorer, from what we can tell.
Our own experience with Windows 7 multitouch was none too impressive, and Vista's built-in single touch stuff is even worse, so hopefully Dell's not just paying lip service to making multitouch a real OS-wide phenomenon. The touch-specific apps like a photo browser and paint app are cute and gimmicky, but at least seem to match HP's TouchSmart for the most part -- plus some multitouch enhancements. What is perhaps the Studio One's biggest boon to touchability doesn't even have a thing to do with the screen or software: it tilts back on the stand, giving you a better angle to work with. Check out both videos after the break.
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posted April 8th 2009 1:37PM
So it's Microsoft surface research put into windows. That's good! That means we don't have to pony up the money for a surface to use this stuff.
couldn't they have just called it "Studio 119"?
Sorry, but you can't compare the Surface to any multitouch device. The Surface is an intelligent device in a genre of its own.
Touch Experience. Lol.
The problem is that people are trying to use these multi-touch screens like regular computers. In that application, they don't make sense. However, in the right application, it seems like they can't be beat.
As soon as more/better/affordable units come out on the market I'm planning on wall mounting one in the kitchen. My wife says she would like one, instead of using her laptop on the counter (for music, entertainment, recipes), which is dangerously close to her cooking. Something similar to this:
http://www.touchsmartcommunity.com/forum/thread/399/Mounting-my-HP-Touchsmart-in-my-kitchen-as-Home-Controller/
In that application, a multi-touch all-in-one makes perfect sense. On the desktop, not so much.
Agree. These Dell apps look like they improve on the experience (by that I mean make it even barely usable, although Windows on multi-touch is still not a pleasant experience). Still, they look too gimmicky. I don't rotate pictures at odd angles all day - I type documents and email people. Browsing the web looks marginally easier, but zooming looks too slow and they didn't mention an on-screen keyboard.
Looks like fun for 5 minutes, but it's not something I'd pay those prices for right now.
Agreed, there are a few useful places for multitouch (like phones with limited space for buttons) but for everyday computing that most people do, I think it's over-hyped.
Personally I like to sit back while I work and it'd be a PITA to have to keep leaning forward to touch something.
People, I wish that you would give more thoughts before sharing your limited opinions on this thing, with all due respect to everything you all say.
I really can't see the problem here! You still have your mouse and keyboard, Dell or all the other companies coming out with multitouch monitors are not forcing you to use, instead they are still fully supportive of the physical keyboard and mouse, and the cursor is always there on your screen; hate touching your screen or find it useful only 10% of the time?? Then use the mouse.
It is simply more choices, and that is by all means never a bad idea, in fact I bet everyone of us wished even for once to browse through a website or a picture album with the comfort of their finger. Putting that option out there for us is just making the experience a better one, and the more people buy these multitouch PCs the more companies will produce software that will support such feature.
I honestly can't get you guys on how negative you are with such beautiful addition?!
@Saad
No, it's a marketing gimmick.
The point is that you pay more for multi-touch, but it's something you need to use IN ADDITION TO a mouse and keyboard. Windows is not at a state where you can use multi-touch AS OPPOSED TO a mouse and keyboard. The additions from Dell are an improvement, but there's still a long way to go.
I suspect most owners will buy it thinking, as you do, that they can leave the mouse and keyboard behind them. After a few days (maybe a week if they're stubborn), they'll bring the keyboard and mouse back. After a month of two, it'll be "multi-touch? Oh yeah! Wasn't there a Dell that had that?".
Touch support is not something you have/don't have. There are degrees of support depending on how viable it is as a self-contained solution. On that scale, this is a minor improvement.
Oh my GOD the BEZEL... the bezel!
THE GOGGLES...!
Apparently they have not seen the lawsuit thrown at Apple yet. Ix-nay the emo-day.
do they know multi-touch is apples trademarked name for the process, not just a term
Its good to see more pc manufacturers adopting multi-touch technology, I think the market for multi-touch desktops will grow with the release of Windows 7 and its awesome multi-touch capabilities. Don't be surprise if the ultimate "Me too" company(a.k.a Apple) comes up with there own multitouch imac real soon. Also watch how the apple fanboys are gonna criticize this and call it gimmicky, but when jobs implements multi-touch on the imac, they will claim it as their own innovation. Bunch of hypocrites. Low rank me if you want, i don't give a damn. Am just saying the obvious truth.
Hmm...i was waiting to see how many posts it would take before Apple was slammed. Only 10...funny how you Apple-bashers can't seem to get Apple off your tiny, bird-like brains.
But, since you mentioned it, I'll throw my 2 cents in. Dell is the "me-too" guy here. HP started with all this gimmicky touch crap, and here comes Dell with their own crappy stab at it. If / when Apple decides to throw their hat into this as-of-yet useless segment of bloatware, they'll only do it when they've got something which is far better than what's out there. Then yes, all the fanboys will rejoice - and rightfully so.
Yawwwnnnn...touchscreens. Get a clue MS...great for phones (some - still prefer physical QWERTY any day) and ATMs / kiosks, but not much else. First thing I'll be turning off in Windows 7 when I get the RC.
I just want one that's compatible with WoW.
Why does it say "HP Mum" in the sticky note app?
Unless it's not a reference to the computer company and to something else...
Anyways, that Touch Application reminds me of HP's.
It's a kids handwriting of Hi Mom.... the i with a circle instead of a dot.
Enough of this multitouch hype already. Apple started it because in light of the lack of many important features in original iPhone they wanted to emphasize something that others did not have. They trumpeted multitouch as a major achievement even though the real usefulness of MT is very limited.
Multi-touch is definitely overused but it is absolutely a useful tool when well integrated and used in places where it can actually enhance the user experience. Now, making everything multi-touch oriented just because you can doesn't make sense. For instance, photo viewers that throw all your photos out in one big messy blob through which you have to subsequently sort.... that's a bad design made simply to show off touch/multi-touch functionality not ease the photo viewing process.
I don't see the on-screen keyboard.
Touch screen usage on current desktop UI is not really intuitive yet. Need larger buttons, larger fonts, and more smoothness when scrolling.
How much do they cost??
For ~$800? Unbeatable.
looks very very LAGGY
its an $800 all-in-one. i would expect the next XPS one to be rolled out sometime before Windows 7 with the same software. should also look nicer/cost closer to $1500-$2000, which means a high end mobile graphics card and a quad core processor, i'd expect that to limit lag a lot.
I think it's because of the browser. Although I haven't tried IE8, I don't think desktop browsers zoom "smoothly". They tend to zoom by a constant degree (100% -> 125% -> 150% etc.), which appears laggy. Try hold down ctrl++ on your browser while on a _good_ computer. Appears the same.
its amazing to me the amount of people that are so against multi touch computers. the most common complaint i hear is "do you really want to have your arm stretched out all day?"
honestly we all know where multitouch is going. people will use it WITH a keyboard and mouse. not instead of a keyboard and mouse, it will open new doors, and as the software advances it will be used for more and more things. plus it opens up the option for new apps that most poeple wouldnt even think of at this time, look what the iPhone has come out with, most of these things people didnt even think of when the product was first released, now i know the iPhone has more than a basic touch screen computer (it has the accelerometer/gps/that kind of thing as well) but i still see the software making multitouch a more reasonable thing in the near future.
as for now? i can still see a few things that i would rather do with my hands from time to time. for one i'd like to move my music to my MP3 player by pointing and dragging, same with the videos/pictures. i also wouldnt mind surfing the internet sometimes, esspecially when showing someone something (how often do you point on the screen when you are showing someone something anyway?
hand have you never wanted to quickly draw an idea to show someone something that youve been thinking of, a design of some sort?
i dont know, why bash on a new feature that only adds to the computer experience, even if you dont use it very often?
I'm not sure I agree. I don't want to constantly switch back and forth between keyboard/mouse and touchscreen input. That's really inefficient, really annoying and therefore bound to fail. The way I see it you either go all touch or not at all. For some applications touch is a perfect solution, for others it's very much the wrong one.
would you like to go back to the days where you use only a keyboard? you can still pretty much use a computer completely with a keyboard, why even use a mouse?
now this thought seems crazy today, however 20 years ago?
i can easily see people 10-15 years from now wondering how we controlled our computers without gesture touch controls... its not like it would be perfect over night, hell, i still use a computer that has no mouse at work.
Oh I think touch has benefits for sure and gestures are fantastic. I just don't see it melding well with the keyboard and mouse.
As for going only keyboard, I actually treat my computer that way quite often. I use Launchy all the time to control my comp from the keyboard. It's very fast and effective. Likewise, I always use short cuts over menus whenever possible. It's simply a faster more efficient way to work.
An interface that is designed for more than one input method usually doesn't end up working very efficiently nor effectively. That's why I think we'll have some great touch interfaces and have some great non touch interfaces but I don't see them merging into a very effective system any time soon.
Really, why would I want to sit up (heh, I have my chair reclined to insane levels), reach across my desk and touch my monitor to flip between images on my desktop when I can move a finger 2mm and do it with a keystroke instead? On a portable touch device or stand alone touch PC (which has different objectives than a desktop PC) that makes sense. On a desktop with keyboard and mouse it really doesn't.
i dont know, i can see it eventually working out well. personally i find myself touching the screen to point to things constantly, why not be able to interact with it as well?
while at work i do like shortcuts and doing everything efficiently there is also something to be said about enjoying what you are using, which gesture/touch is more enjoyable imo... something for home, not work...
either way im excited for the feature.
Well I can't argue with you there - touch is fun! I guess we'll have to wait and see what the future holds!
@Weet:
What's even more annoying is the so called music in this ad.
Guys, believe me, it is much simpler than you all think, ease up on the conclusions and analysis, I mean ease up a notch.
Here is how it goes (as SmilinGoat said): You don't like to touch the screen or you put your screen far away from you? Then DO NOT USE TOUCH, simple. How could this be explained in an easier way?!!!
Use your keyboard and mouse forever, no one will ever charge you for doing so, but you will always have a second option right there waiting for you to use it. Imagine your mouse broke on you or the battery died in it or maybe you wanted to use the touch screen for a software you think would be better when touched by multiple fingers, simple, use the touch screen.
Now, imagine nothing bad happens to your keyboard and/or mouse, what will you do?? simple, use the mouse and keyboard forever.
We recently purchased one of Dell's new XT2 Tablets that use this exact same multi-touch technology and to be quite honest....it sucks. Not only is at laggy as the videos show, it seems hit and miss when using it. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it won't.
The actual touch part of the screen is actually from a 3rd party called N-Trig (http://www.n-trig.com/) and it definitely feels like an addon when using it. It certainly doesn't compare to what Apple has done with Touch technology (and this comes from someone who has never bought any Apple PC of his own).
You shouldn't even be using multi-touch on that Dell until WIndows 7 comes out. Of course it sucks.
Foolish...
I'm actually looking forward to something like this, for a CHEAP kitchen computer. Not a general purpose computer. It will be ANOTHER computer, on top of the ones we already have. And yes, I'd like to not have a keyboard and mouse next to it.
What do I want it for? Play music, play video, browse the internet for simple things like weather and movie times, sticky notes, shared calendars, etc.
Most of these are NOT things you'll spend a lot of time doing. You'll walk up, poke at it a bit, then leave. But the reviews need to be good, the applications capable, the touch implementation not too laggy--at least iPhone level. We'll see what happens when Windows 7 comes out.
Enough with the nonsense - where the hell are the 3009wfp screens dell?