Multi-Touch Coming to UK Dell Studio 17 Laptops Before the End of the Year
Dell added the option of a multi-touch display to the Studio 17 laptop a few days ago for customers in the USA. Now according to Crave UK, Dell will make this option available to UK customers before the end of the year. Multi-touch is a form of touch screen where the screen can sense multiple finger touches at the same time. This allows for gestures involving two or more fingers like pinch and rotate.
The Studio 17 is Dell’s first laptop to offer a multi-touch display option and since it comes with Windows 7 pre-installed then many of the native multi-touch features (like scrolling through your pictures directly from within Windows Explorer) are available out-of-the-box.
But Dell isn’t leaving you with just the native Windows 7 capabilities. Dell also pre-install a suite of touch software applications including the Dell Touch Zone. With it you can edit photos or create slide shows or even flick favourite photos to Flickr.com, create music playlists, select, start and stop videos, and leave virtual sticky notes for family members.
As the name suggests, the Studio 17 has a glossy widescreen 17 inch display (1440×900) and comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor (starting at 2.1GHz but options up to a Core 2 Duo Processor running at 2.5GHz with a 6MB L2 Cache). You can have as much as 4GB of memory and either an Intel X3100 video card or a 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650.
When Dell announced the multi-touch option Studio 17 in the USA, they quoted the starting price as $899 which will probably mean between £650 and £700 here in the UK. Dell also mentioned that, in the USA at least, the multi-touch display will be available with Core i7 systems in a few weeks.
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I don’t understand why people want to touch the screen to operate the computer. The grease from the skin of the user will make the image look very smudged in no time. Each time you clean the screen you risk causing damage. The best method way to influence the contents of the screen is the mouse pointer.