Dell Quietly Slips Two Touchscreen Studio Notebooks into Product Lineup

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srt1

August 10, 2010 at 11:36pm

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crashmeister

March 04, 2010 at 8:55am

I checked on Dell's website several times since this article came out.  I also chatted with a sales rep.  Dell does not currently carry a Studio 15 with touch screen, hence, there is no Studio 1558 with touch screen.

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Keith E. Whisman

March 01, 2010 at 3:17pm

Everyone now bow to Michael Dell. Oh Lord Dell what is thy bidding my master?

I want one of these. What I really want is a laptop that converts into a tablet with full functionality and full multi touch screen. It needs to be a medium to large size laptop screen anywhere from 14" to 17". I also would like it to open up to a dual touch screen or have a fold out screen with a touch screen keyboard but a standard keyboard and single screen will work because touch keyboards suck at touch typing.

But damn finally someone is listening to my bitching and moaning. When the laptop of my dreams comes to life I will purchase it.

This laptop convertable needs to have discrete graphics capable of playing games and loaded with at minimum a 7200RPM hard drive.

I want a convertable laptop that can replace you desktop and do pretty much everything from photo and video editing to IM. 

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Tekzel

March 01, 2010 at 10:06am

I don't really see the purpose in a touchscreen notebook, unless it can take tablet form. From my experience, touchscreens are fine when you don't have access to a keyboard/mouse-like-device, such as a kiosk. Or, a notebook that the screen shuts on the keyboard/touchpad in tablet form.  Why else would you want it on a notebook? Whether it's a superior method of input is debatable, and it definitely adds to the cost of the system.

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QuakindudeMod

March 01, 2010 at 1:56pm

I've owned various Panasonic Toughbook's for the last ten years. Part of my job. If you've never used a touch screen on a laptop for any amount of time, like for at least a week, then I can't see how you can comment for or against it. 

Touchscreen notebooks are one HELL of a lot better than none touchscreens. I NEVER need a mouse. And let's face it, if you've owned a laptop, you've been stuck with trying to figure out where to put the mousing surface if you use said laptop outside of your home. Like on a job site, in an airplane, you know...traveling. 

Once I got used to touchscreens, it has been horribly handicapping to have to revert back to a damned archaic method of user input like a mouse. The touchscreen isn't meant to replace a keyboard and not a mouse either for that matter. But for the simpler gestures of moving the cursor, opening and closing tabs in a browser, making generalized inputs, and so on.

And once gesture driven touchscreens like those used on CNN's news reporting become the norm, you will only use a mouse to play games. The mouse days are numbered. Just like those of a joystick. Only used for specific, limited purposes. 

A mouse, touchpad or even arrows on a keyboard simply seem, cavemanish, at best, compared to a touchscreen. 

I should point out that touchscreens simply will not work as well on a desktop solution until one of two things happens. Either one, the whole monitor is slanted down to a more comfortable angle for doing so or two, they come up with some type of infrared input system like the IR keyboards to make them more user friendly and comfortable in that environment. 

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Tekzel

March 01, 2010 at 2:06pm

"If you've never used a touch screen on a laptop for any amount of time,
like for at least a week, then I can't see how you can comment for or
against it. "

This really is one of the single most irritating things you can say in my opinion. Right behind "FIRST!"

We talk about all kinds of things we haven't had first hand experience with. Every single day, we all do. Are you going to suggest we should implement some sort of rule that if you haven't experienced X for some arbitrarily chosen time period (you seem to like a week) then we can't comment about it? Do you have any idea how asinine that is?

Regarding the rest of your post. Eh, doubt it. Touchscreens will remain a sometimes supplement to the mouse for a long time to come. Oh, and when I say mouse I mean to include the touchpad on a notebook as well.

Oh yea, and I still don't see the point of a touchscreen on a non-tablet form notebook. 

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neo1piv14

March 01, 2010 at 11:52am

Agreed. It seems like it'd slow you down a good bit to have to take your hands off the keyboard/mouse to poke at your screen. I guess that's just how I was raised though...

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