Video: Sharp's Mebius LCD trackpad
By Thomas Ricker 
posted April 21st 2009 5:05AM
posted April 21st 2009 5:05AM
posted April 21st 2009 5:05AM
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Seem to be saying this alot lately but, WANT!
(xmas is gonna be tricky this year!)
It needs to be bigger to be truly useful. How about getting rid of that keyboard and replacing it with a touchscreen keyboard?
Oh, wait. That would just be a dual touchscreen laptop.
Also what we call "A total pain in the ass" to use.
Call me when Apple makes it, the cpu has 4 cores, 8gb ram, oled primary and secondary screens, and a 250+gb SSD.
Realistically this day can't be more than about 3 or 4 years away. :-)
Apple will make this when it's the industry standard, then charge 150% more for doing it prettily. .
Why don't a lot of these interesting additional functions and/or gadgets get applied to at least ONE higher-end convertible tablet PC? And by PC I also mean Apple products...are you listening, Apple? If you had a tablet more powerful but about the same size as the Air I'D BUY ONE (only if finger input and daylight viewability were included). I suspect a lot of us would. Dave S. Missouri, USA. Still apologizing to the world for the Bushes and Nixon....
My 6+ year old Toshiba laptop had a touchscreen trackpad. You could use it as a separate calculator, schedule/calendar, along with several other features. I'll go grab it out of my 'laptop graveyard' and write up a post about it, since people think this is an amazing new idea; it's not.
hmm, i have posted and recomended this under your articles regarding trackpads and such things several times in last 3 years at least. If i would have spare several thousands of dolars, i would do copyright for this :-( But i like that finaly someone did it, i hope is is not protected by some stupid copyrighter so that everyone can do it.
Why did Sharp stop making regular notebooks?
The only thing worst than some loser typing "first post!", is some loser using the first post to launch a petty anti-apple fanboy rant. Obsessed with apple?
I'd love to have a trackpad like this in a laptop.
I have played with the nj70a-w, it's very nice, the 10 inch screen is the best i've seen on any netbook/notebook equal to that of the macbook, the netbook allow you to listen to music and see photo's without opening the vista basic os (standard os for the nj70a/nj80a), the touch pad to operate the mouse function does lag, may be it hasn't been adjusted from the control panel.
it does come with a red stylus that goes in the side.
the touch pad run independently from the main screen, you can install chinese or english version of the os, but you will need to provide them yourself, as japanese version is the only version available for this unit, and the touch screen is only available in japanese only, what ever language os you install.
the unit is very thick, thicker that any netbook on the market, i think it's over 4cm think, lasty it has two advantages over any netbook on the market.
all netbook runs the video rate at 128mb max, this netbook goes upto 256mb and supports two ram slot, but come standard with 1gb ram.
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I have played with the nj70a-w, it's very nice, the 10 inch screen isthe best i've seen on any netbook/notebook equal to that of themacbook, the netbook allow you to listen to music and see photo'swithout opening the vista basic os (standard os for the nj70a/nj80a),the touch pad to operate the mouse function does lag, may be it hasn'tbeen adjusted from the control panel.
it does come with a red stylus that goes in the side. the touch pad run independently from the main screen, you can installchinese or english version of the os, but you will need to providethem yourself, as japanese version is the only version available forthis unit, and the touch screen is only available in japanese only,what ever language os you install.
the unit is very thick, thicker that any netbook on the market, ithink it's over 4cm think, lasty it has two advantages over anynetbook on the market. all netbook runs the video rate at 128mb max, this netbook goes upto256mb and supports two ram slot, but come standard with 1gb ram.
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