Touch screen helps netbook more sparkling

Before Windows 7, netbooks attracted the attention and user wallet. But by being able to control by touch screen, netbooks can become a real blockbuster, a device that is enough to make seismic in the technology market.

Source: CNET Touch control is one of the most attractive features but hasn't been discussed much by Windows 7.

Although most users when it comes to "multi-touch" are immediately thinking of the iPhone or iPod Touch, but in fact, this idea has existed for many years. And it is Microsoft that has put multi-touch technology into a Surface tablet PC since 2001.

It can be said that the majority of computers can benefit from multi-touch technology, but netbooks are a special case. First, its tiny touch keyboard and touchpad must "plead" for help from the user interface more than anyone else. In addition, the limited space of the screen obviously needs the zoom feature close-up or scroll with just a snap of a finger.

Adding touch features to the netbook screen will not be as costly as a laptop or desktop, because the screen sizes of the following two categories are larger. Currently Touch only appears inside Windows 7 Home Premium versions or more, so netbook users will have to spend about $ 100 more.

The market now has a number of touch screen netbooks such as Dell Latitude 2100 or netbook-tablet Touchnote series from Gigabyte. However, their selling prices are both quite high and the touch feature is not really complete. That's why users haven't kept an eye on these products much.

According to analysts, it is important for the market to have "multi-path" multi-touch LCD models, which identify input data with multiple fingers at the same time, not just at the index finger. If nothing changes, netbooks equipped with multi-touch LCD screens will be released on the same occasion as Windows 7.

The finger-controlled netbook will have an immense appeal to both individual and business users. Just like how the iPhone allows users to surf the Web naturally, easily on the phone's 3.5-inch screen, the touch netbook will also allow you to arrange and check Word documents, spreadsheets in a way. fast, convenient on 8.9 - 10.2 inch screen.

Users will be able to zoom in and out on a cell to change the recipe, which is extremely fast and less tiring than using a tiny touch keyboard and touchpad.