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Fuzzy Logic Dell’s Della and its new tech designs: Apple-esque?
Fuzzy Logic Dell’s Della and its new tech designs: Apple-esque? | Dell’s Della and its new tech designs: Apple-esque? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 16 May 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 3 What’s missing is what the Studio One 19 delivers – a multi-touch experience. Featured Whitepaper
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While these devices were single touch, they weren’t multi-touch. Microsoft, Palm and even Apple itself were years ahead with touch screens, but the iPhone revolutionised what touch screens in multi-touch meant, and could let us accomplish. Microsoft’s “Surface PC” introduced the same capabilities to the world at effectively the exact same time, but with the Surface PC the size of a large coffee table or desktop arcade machine, it’s no wonder that iPhones flocked into pockets while Surface PCs await their transformation into a Windows Mobile 7-powered ZunePhone. We already know that Asus has demo’d touch-screen Asus Eee PCs at tech trade shows, LCD screen makers are already sending off multi-touch screens for Microsoft Windows 7 logo verification, N-Trig has been very busy with multi-touch screens as has longtime tablet and touch pioneer Wacom. Microsoft has also talked in its Engineering Windows 7 blog of all the improvements it has made to Windows 7 in the touch and writing interface areas, making touch control, of Windows at least, easier and better than ever. Despite touch screens having been around for years, the recent rapid rise in the new popularity of touch screens is clearly thanks to the iPhone, despite Microsoft and its partners having sold millions of Windows Mobile smartphones over the years before the iPhone was even available. Microsoft has put a huge focus on touch for Windows 7, and unless Apple beats it to the punch with a hugely popular iPhone Pro, Mac Tablet or Macbook Nano Touch while adding multi-touch screens to the rest of its range, what’s missing on all of today’s computers is the widespread availability of touch. Within the next couple of years, if not sooner, multi-touch screens should be common for netbooks, notebooks and desktop screens. Already Lenovo has promised to introduce more touch screens to its range. Dell and HP already do, while companies like Toshiba and its Portege M750 already support stylus and single-touch finger input. It’s even possible to touch type right onto the Windows 7 on-screen keyboard with a multi-touch screen. I was able to do it on a single-touch Portege M750, and look forward to seeing what it’s like with a true multi-touch notebook screen - although I have to say it was pretty damned impressive to be able to type quickly and directly on a multi-touch screen and the large, re-sizeable, Win 7 on-screen keyboard. So… the machines of 2009 are sleeker than ever, but almost all lack the multi-touch goodness that will adorn our screens, and the new ways of interacting with our computers this will enable. So what does all of this have to do with Dell and being Apple-esque? Please read on to page 3. |
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