Fujitsu's multitouch LIFEBOOK T4310 tablet makes quick work of Microsoft's Touch Pack
By Paul Miller 
posted Sep 6th 2009 12:04PM
posted Sep 6th 2009 12:04PM
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@roach
tablets these days have all the power of any normal "ultra-portable" laptop. they aren't designed to be a "gaming rig", but rather a mobile computer with good battery life.
furthermore, if you look at the screen, it's highly likely, from the lack of desktop composition (e.g. no transparency), that the computer is running on the battery using the "power saver" power profile. this profile disables composing, as well as "cripples" the cpu and other parts, to save battery power.
with all that, i didn't notice any "lag" at all. the computer seemed quite responsive to me. if there were "input problems" i suspect the guy showing the computer just missed hitting the right spot because he was in a hurry.
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this also brings me to another point. from the size of the UI components, i suspect that the DPI setting on the laptop are incorrect, making everything artificially small. that's why tiny buttons and such are hard to hit. while i'll say that the normal windows UI obviously isn't designed around the finger (or stylus), when the DPI is correctly set to the actual DPI of your screen, most UI components are large enough to be easily hit.
oops. my comment was supposed to go under Alex's comment. my fault, not engadget's
The only dislikes are the lag and the I would like to see a capacitive Touchscreen on there.
it is capacitive. He says resistive and then the guy corrects him and says it's capacitive.
It already has one large capacitive touchscreen... adding another would be sweet sure, but the things already expensive enough!
Tablet makers are notorious for using weak CPU and crappy integrated video cards in these system...and over pricing them. Frankly, I blame them for killing the Window tablet PC market. I been a tablet PC user for years (I do art) and Window's tablet function is the best of any OS. I would spend over 2 grand if I can find a tablet with good GPU and CPU...but not on an intergrated.
You've obviously missed something, in the video it is made quite clear that it's a capacitive screen.
With that said, enough already with the 'oh but is it capacitive?'-talk, there are both capacitive and resistive screens that do multitouch, and it's not true that you have to push the screen until the colors warp for a finger to be recognized with resistive technology (it has been that way, but those days are long gone now). Capacitive is way overrated. (Google Stantum for some more info on high quality multitouch input without capacitive technology)
The lag when he zoom the pictures isnt pretty :( really cool computer tho!
Fujitsu makes some of the highest quality computers on the market. I had a Fujitsu Tablet that was extremely sturdy and reliable. It took a real beating and kept on going.
Some of that lag is likely caused by the flimsy screen. Didn't you see how much more responsive the screen was when the demostrator held the screen when touching it.
Why don't Fujitsu go under a different name?
I don't care how good the product is, I would never buy something that has the brand of an air conditioner on it.
Their tablets are really nice it makes up for the name, but yea sometimes that brand name is a little to washed out with other products.
The next laptop I get is going to be a touch screen device with stylus input so I hope these get better and sexy.
Samsung makes refrigerators, but their TV's are amazing... what's your point?
@Levi
Samsung make TV's, and have made a few refrigerators. Good ones at that.
Air conditioners are much less classy.
@jimminy
then you would never buy Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Hitachi, etc including all of Asian conglomerates. Right?
Because they make absolutely everything from toothpaste to houses.
It's just their business style.
To me, Fujitsu is more of electronics company than just a myopic view of certain product.
Just FYI
Samsung and LG also make air conditioners
@moon
I would buy Samsung and LG. Because they're much higher class in my books.
I'm just saying that Fujitsu should sell under a different name if they want more sales.
And I have never seen a Samsung or LG air conditioner, but those companies are more well known for TV's.
I wouldn't buy a computer made by Cadbury's, but I'd sure as hell buy a chocolate made by Apple.
So, how do you feel about air conditioned computers? :)
Given a choice between fujitsu or acer, Id take fujitsu on any day.
Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi, etc make also kitchen ranges and owens, microwaves, settop boxes,cellphones (including some cheap uncool ones), some of these products are good some bad, a few of them outstanding.
Jeez, this is hands down the most stupid comment I've read on Engadget in the past few years; and it's not like there is any dearth of those.
OP youre an idiot. Fujitsu's market is the medical community. Youd probably eat shit it had an apple logo on it
Maybe Fujitsu don't want to compete to the flid-end of the market as support costs are too high? Anyway, Apple already has a stranglehold on such users
YEAH! Number 2!
Oh I do hope your life's dreams are fulfilled now!!! May the whole world rejoice that you are the second person to comment on this post! Oh joyous day oh joyous day!!!
Please to be going to mother nature now and asking "I can has life?"
I bet you are on an iPhone with AT&T connection.
that laptop looks fauckin awesuuuuum
Didn't apple patent multitouch?
yeah lets just say they invented it too. -.-"
and um btw, to actually answer your question,
they didn't patent it as they are not the pioneers of the tech.
i believe multitouch is open for anybody to use
they patented certain gestures and functions of multitouch,
such as those on a macbook,
or for example an iphone browser window going beyond its borders and then snapping back when you use touch to scroll.
Apple invented multitouching the wallets of hipsters using iProducts.
When it has to be shiny, white, and overpriced, think iProduct.
I bet that patent does not make it far through court. It is more of a threat than an actual protectable piece of IP.
The Fujitsu slates are my preference, although I have not been a fan of Windows as of late, so the shiny overpriced, well-designed, well-integrated “crap” has been my outlet for all things tablet. I also wish that these companies would realize that a tablet, even a slate or mid, needs a decent processor. It also needs to be attached to a larger monitor, so needs decent graphics.
@ mynk
You were beginning to sound objective and correct till you said "they are not the pioneers of the tech," then you stamped yourself in the forehead with a big fat red "Apple-hater".
'Pioneer', the word we use when 'inventor' really isn't honest.
The weight saver helps you save weight...
but actually a pretty full featured notebook.. I could see myself with one...
Looks pretty nice.... but I think I'll be sticking with my Latitude XT
If it had a decent processor/gpu, maybe. I'll stick with my XPS M1730 for portable gaming and Mini 10 for portable everything else till I see what Apple comes out with. I think a dockable tablet from Apple that you could use as a regular net top type computer (with connected keyboard/mouse) would be interesting.
Oh and a little off the topic, but fujitsu laptops are generally pretty sturdy so this shouldnt be any different.
Definitely looks great. Someone has an idea of the futur price ?
Almost all of Fujitsu's tablets come in at about the $2000 mark. This will probably be the same.
Look awesome!
Multi-touch resistive + Wacom Capacitive = Way better than N-Trig
Its propably multitouch capasitive + wacom inductive...
yeap..... My tx2z is already broken
nothing special here! They're doing nothing at all but showing off the hardware in relation to another man's OS. Wait until Apple drops their tablet and the software solutions to run it. And watch how great the integration of that tablet and the software works across the Mac ecosystem.
Yeah I pretty much see myself buying one of these...until I find out the price, that is.
I'm totally in the market for a Windows 7 tablet though.
I like how you can take out the dvd drive. I *hate* packing that around in my laptop for the once or twice a month when i use it.
The end imo was the best part, I've never seen a removable optical disk/battery drive (blu-ray?).
Alienware do one. Hot swappable battery/bluray/HDD
You can't have seen many laptops then, it is a common feature in business machines. I have a Dell from c.1998 with it, and most notebook manufacturers have it in their business lines.
my sony vaio from 2000 had it. except it was a floppy drive/battery multi use bay.
needless to say, the floppy drive didn't get a lot of use, but it was nice to pack two batteries.
especially since it took the same battery pack as the main battery compartment.
it's very common.
I've had three laptops that allowed you to swap out the DVD drive. Actually, with my current Thinkpad, I'm planning on getting the 2nd hard drive bay for either a dual boot machine, or just for extra storage. I'll retire the DVD drive until I really need to use it again (rare.) One thing I'm thinking of doing is getting a small, relatively cheap SSD for application booting, and a 500GB HDD in the 2nd bay for storage. That would be pretty clean.
How much would this go for?