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Asus Launches Touchscreen Eee Desktop

Posted by kdawson on from the smearing-the-peanut-butter-and-jelly dept.

Barence writes "Asus has launched an Eee-branded 15.6" touchscreen desktop PC as a budget rival to HP's TouchSmart. Available for pre-order now on Play.com for £399.99 ($749), it shares much of the same specification as the Eee PC, but with a larger 160GB hard disk. Interestingly, it's listed as coming with XP installed, so we'd guess Asus will be using some sort of proprietary touchscreen interface — yet the image on the site clearly shows Linux on the screen, which may be a better bet for an easy-to-use touch system."

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  1. Touchscreen?? by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why oh why would anyone want a touchscreen? It's hard enough to make out stuff on my flat screen, through the greasy fingerprints, as it is. (Have to hot-desk)

    It would be even worse after Marmite on toast :-)

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    1. Re:Touchscreen?? by physicsphairy · · Score: 5, Funny

      It would be even worse after Marmite on toast :-)

      Incorrect.

      After you've been forced to eat Marmite on toast, nothing is worse.

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    2. Re:Touchscreen?? by lysergic.acid · · Score: 2, Funny

      maybe Asus should sell a Don't-Touchscreen Eee Desktop.

      just design the monitor so that any direct physical contact with the LCD display area produces a mild (or not so mild) electric shock--the greasier the finger, the higher the current.

      perhaps they can even license the technology which Honda has apparently built into my car door. every time i get out of the car and grab the metal frame of the door to shut it, i get a nice jolt of static electricity. it's gotten to the point where i'll only put my hand on the glass window pane, or i'll just shut the door with my butt.

    3. Re:Touchscreen?? by aplusjimages · · Score: 3, Funny

      no because then there would be ball smears all over the screen.

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    4. Re:Touchscreen?? by couchslug · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Why are you touching your screen if you don't have a touchscreen?"

      I'm trying to wipe off the collateral damage from my...surfing habits.

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    5. Re:Touchscreen?? by Kangburra · · Score: 2, Funny

      Where's the +1 Eww moderation??

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  2. Hampster Ball! by Atheose · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well how are you supposed to mount that inside a hampster ball?

  3. um by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux... easy-to-use

    head asplode

  4. Re:Touch Screen interface by Colonel+Korn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interestingly, it's listed as coming with XP installed, so we'd guess Asus will be using some sort of proprietary touchscreen interface

    I think this statement is also pulling straws.

    A) An XP interface would NOT be any harder than a freaking mouse driver.

    B) TabletPC XP already has multi-touch driver interfaces, that go back to 2003 from several vendors. Yes Apple Fans, WindowsXP TabeltPC devices existed back in 2003/2004 with multi-touch, far before any iPhone or multi-touch trackpads from Apple.

    Crap like this is why Apple's marketing works so well, it gets repeated no matter what the truth is.

    Thanks. I was insisting to a friend a couple months ago that another friend of mine had a multitouch Windows tablet of some sort long, long before Apple had anything of the sort. Now I can easily find the wiki pages to send to him to prove it.

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  5. Re:One thing I've always wondered... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tertiareee

  6. Unit Conversion by onkelonkel · · Score: 4, Funny

    For us SI/metric users, a quick question: how many passles in a shitload?

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    1. Re:Unit Conversion by wonkavader · · Score: 4, Funny

      Six.

  7. Re:One thing I've always wondered... by tkw954 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's a surprisingly common mistake. its "a Triple-E" not "an Triple-E".

    It's "it's", not "its".

  8. Re:One thing I've always wondered... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You just got served.