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Acer Dual-Screen, Multitouch Laptop Leaks Out

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. touchscreen keyboard? by hex0D · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Didn't we all learn the importance of tactile response in a keyboard around the time of the Timex Sinclair?

    1. Re:touchscreen keyboard? by Idbar · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Perhaps some people don't care about tactile response (besides I know some people that look at the keyboard every time). I'd be more interested how does the battery plays a role when this type of keyboard is idle.

    2. Re:touchscreen keyboard? by Peach+Rings · · Score: 4, Insightful

      How, what? I don't even know how to reply to that. Nobody who is remotely sane would agree with you. Typing 160 character texts is a lot different from typing prose on a full keyboard. On a keyboard I can compose my thoughts and type them out immediately as I think of them. On a tiny touch keyboard it's excruciating to try to express complex thoughts. Since it takes so long to type I constantly try to cut down the amount of text to type instead of thinking of what I'm trying to say.

      A full size touch keyboard might be different, but that doesn't mean that your statement about the iPhone is right.

  2. Yummm battery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So let's take a keyboard that doesn't consume battery and replace it with a backlit LCD touchscreen that consumes battery and has no tactile feedback or home key detents. Ok, I'll buy a few of these.