Acer Dual-Screen, Multitouch Laptop Leaks Out

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 12, 2010 @03:56AM from the mind-the-smudges dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 15" laptop from Acer that is currently in production features dual-multitouch displays, one for the main display and one as the keyboard/mouse. It has a 2.67GHz Intel Core i5 processor and runs Windows 7. No release date or pricing information yet as this unit is still heavily in production/testing phases." Replacing a keyboard with a touchscreen sounds like a mixed blessing to me, but not everyone agrees. Witness the (great big) Kno dual-touchscreen e-reader, and the Toshiba Libretto W100 dual-screen mini-laptop, now shipping in Japan.

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Re:touchscreen keyboard? by gmuslera · 2010-09-12 04:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

People care first about "oh, shiny!" before actually testing it. And then convince themselves that they didnt make an horrible mistake, that they really prefered it to be that way, or change their using habits to its limitations.
Is not that bad. It could turn web 3.0 to social mostly for tech aware people, the others won't leave content (comments, blog posts, etc) as much because is uncomfortable with their devices, or move people from facebook to twitter because they have to type less to participate.