Witness the first multi-touch notebook for the masses: The HP TouchSmart. Also dubbed 
the TX2, this baby allows customers to pack up the keyboard and mouse and settle for a more natural user interface… the good ole fingertip.
The snazzy multi-touch display affords rapid and easy access to data, entertainment and web media with its capacitive technology. Just as with the iphone, you can pinch, arc, press and drag, rotate, double click and single tap any element with your fingers.
I had a 30 minute test drive of this notebook and found that it works in three modes: PC, tablet, and display. There’s also a digital pen that got me flexing my creative muscles as I wrote, sketched, drew and took notes and graphs right onto the screen. These were converted into real text into no time. It’s something every secretary or executive assistant would love to have. So bosses, start setting a budget aside for this ultimate productivity tool!
The HP Touchsmart takes little room as it boasts a vivid 12.1 inch BrightView LED display and clocks in at 4.5 lbs. The screen swivels nicely in display mode allowing for some cool eye candy during intimate presentations.
Oh, and it’s punchy too. The AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile processor keeps the notebook running steadily even with graphic intensive applications like Photoshop. And speaking of which- I do hope Photoshop will take advantage of the multi-touch tech for graphic processing.
