Studio 1558 Touch sneaks into Dell catalog with Core i5
By Thomas Ricker 
posted March 1st 2010 7:33AM
posted March 1st 2010 7:33AM
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Meh. It makes me think gimmick. Guess we'll wait and see.
@think before you react
I think it's actually a smart idea, I hate those folding tablets, and it would be nice to be able to use this for picture viewing, signing docs, music jukebox etc... I can see this adding value...
@think before you react
If it was made by Apple most of the people here would have just Jizzed.
I see what you'd like, but I don't think you're thinking it through. Why would you like SOME programs touch capable while other are controlled through mouse/keyboard? Touch systems excel because ALL programs use
the touch input which makes it second nature to use. If not, after a week or so of using the this novelty laptop, you'll probably revert back to using the mouse for input. Also, I think touch screens should be glass. It's durable and allows you to cleans the screen without fear of harming the display. Make the OS FULLY touch operated with a glass screen and you'll sell plenty of these. And for the other poster to my comment- if Apple would have created a touch computer they would have done exactly what I just pointe out... No gone half assed and made a gimmick laptop.
Looks nice.
Oh goody- fingerprints on my laptop screen.
Just what I wanted...
/s
Really, why a touchscreen in a non-convertible laptop? I don't get it...
@NewL
Because it gives the touch gimic without having to pay for an active digitizer for pen operations.
So with this, your able to play all the touchpack/pinch to zoom/two finger scroll/etc stuff, but aren't able to use handwriting/advanced onenote/etc stuff.
My boss got a TouchSmart tm2t last month. Frankly, I'm a little disappointed in how unsmooth both the touch and the digitizer end up being. I was hoping to get addicted to the touch element but you can only touch something so many times before you get frustrated and go back to using the touchpad. Let's hope that dell has a better touch screen than hp.
I love how you can't flip the screen around. How useless.
@Ellianth Of course you can, just turn the laptop upside down. How silly of you.
I love prodding my screen with my finger. This will be most useful.
why?
It was in monthly mailer and i looked it up - but couldn't!
The Value Code didn't work.
I''ll only take it if it's free, otherwise the touchscreen makes it seemingly useless.
Dell must have been offered a butt load of cheap touch screens over in China. It looks like the whole "touch here, oooh wow" gimmick might be interesting for about 30 seconds. Then the keyboard and trackpad take over. Come on Dell, either do touch the right way or leave it be. These half-assed implementations are a joke.
please put this in the i7 so I can get this with the lappy I need to order before larbor day.
AUUUUUUGH. I just finally got them to give me a 1555 for my faulty Vostro. (Head desk) Oh well, I guess it's still way better than what I had before.
Honestly these are just gimmicks. There is absolutely no value in a laptop with a touchscreen without stylus input for accurate input. After a while, and realizing how oiling your screen is, you'll realize you could have bought a laptop that's comparable for 200-300 dollars cheaper, sans the oily screen.
I admit, there are times when I wished I could interface with the screen on a computer, but 98% of the time, I use a keyboard and mouse.
I guess I'll wait to see where this goes from here.
I really don't like the idea of having to touch my screen and getting it dirty. It's the same reason I'll never buy a smart phone. It's a better idea to use Project Natal to interface.
Dell is completely out of their minds offering a touch screen laptop (kinda like Lenovo). Don't they know it won't garner critical acclaim and niche customer adoration until Apple releases their own version?
Silly corporation.
Here's a little-known fact: The Dell Latitude 2100, Dell's rugged laptops for K-12, has a $39 option to add a touchscreen. We received one at work for on-call and when I was reloading Win7 on the thing I noticed the USB touchscreen in device manager. Yeah it's gimmicky for the most part but it comes in handy occasionally and for 40 bucks, why the hell not?
@JerkyChew
Ahh crap, I should have said "Dell's rugged netbook" - It's an Atom-based 10 incher. When can we get an edit button?