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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?

  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.