desktop replacement - touchscreen laptop

[sandyd]

My cousin's comming out of rehab on monday, and shes going to be taking some computer courses at a local college.

The thing is, she has a desktop (my frankenstien pc) at home, but she needs a laptop for the courses.

So, i thought i would donate myown for a good personal cause ;)

My job occasionally requires me to use a tablet (and a laptop), and its quite anoying to have to use the tablet, because simply to me, the tablet just doesn't sync with the stuff im seeing on the screen. Ive got a touchscreen desktop at home, but i don't turn on that monster nowadays unless i really need to cause its a terrible waste of power.

Are there any fully-working desktop replacement laptops with touchscreens out there?

[MasterNetra]

My cousin's comming out of rehab on monday, and shes going to be taking some computer courses at a local college.

The thing is, she has a desktop (my frankenstien pc) at home, but she needs a laptop for the courses.

So, i thought i would donate myown for a good personal cause ;)

My job occasionally requires me to use a tablet (and a laptop), and its quite anoying to have to use the tablet, because simply to me, the tablet just doesn't sync with the stuff im seeing on the screen. Ive got a touchscreen desktop at home, but i don't turn on that monster nowadays unless i really need to cause its a terrible waste of power.

Are there any fully-working desktop replacement laptops with touchscreens out there?

I'm sure they're are. Getting Ubuntu or some other Linux distro to work with your touch screen maybe difficult.

[sandyd]

I'm sure they're are. Getting Ubuntu or some other Linux distro to work with your touch screen maybe difficult.

Google Result: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=Touch+screen+laptops&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=18304857431730714492&ei=J4pSS_-aL5DaNvi07ckK&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ8wIwAA#ps-sellers
oops. forgot. battery has to be replacable, since it usually is run on batteries until they reach about 30%

EDIT: ive heard about the HP Tx notebooks, and while browsing the forums, ive actually seen some success stories.
Do those actually work? (even w/ tinkering around, i don't mind)

[MasterNetra]

oops. forgot. battery has to be replacable.

Oops gave ya wrong link. Here ya go: http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=4146205 idk if battery replaceable or not but meh. And here are the google results i found it in.

http://www.google.com/products?q=Touch+screen+laptops&oe=utf-8&ved=0CCEQrQQwAA&scoring=p&show=dd&sa=N&lnk=next&start=100

Google is your friend.

[sandyd]

has anyone tried one of
http://www.amazon.com/tx2500z-High-Definition-BrightView-TOUCH-SCREEN-SuperMulti/dp/B001KYJ3R6/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1263701898&sr=1-17

recently?

[pwnst*r]

http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1268

one of the best pieces of gear I own, but to be honest I've never tried Ubuntu in tablet mode on it (I use persistent USB boots such as Android and Kubuntu)

[Favux]

Hi carlee,

The TX2500 works fine. We've been setting it up since Intrepid, see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=845911 Including automatic rotation: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6274392&postcount=1

The TX2z (TX2-xxxx) that replaced it is a little more problematic. It has a usb N-trig digitizer rather than a usb Wacom one. Depending on the n-trig firmware you can get it working: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7863677&postcount=1

There's a new multi-touch HP tablet just (coming) out, the TM2(?). It goes back to a Wacom digitizer (I think) with multi-touch.


@ pwnst*r,

We've got the X200t multi-touch (serial Wacom digitizer) working. See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1356075

There's even a few multi-touch gestures available. Support for multi-touch is rapidly being added to linuxwacom.

[sandyd]

decided to get the tx2500z in the end. already shipping and will be arriving tomorow....

[AllRadioisDead]

Do not waste your time putting ubuntu on a tablet, it has terrible tablet support.
I have an HP tc4400 at home and there is very little ubuntu support for the stylus. Windows is very nicely tailored for the tablet with lots of great and productive tools.

[sandyd]

and after 4h.... it works!! full touchscreen support!! (except for multitouch of course, im still envious of windows 7's abilities (i upgraded vista))

[MasterNetra]

and after 4h.... it works!! full touchscreen support!! (except for multitouch of course, im still envious of windows 7's abilities (i upgraded vista))

http://gizmodo.com/5432038/linux-gets-multitouch-unofficially

[Favux]

Hi carlee,

Yeah!

You might want to check out CellWriter, Xournal, and EasyStroke.

[AllRadioisDead]

Gnome/KDE need to incorperate CellWriter like technologies.