quoted 6 lines A touchscreen laptop DOES exist, I now have one (Fujitsu-Seimens> A touchscreen laptop DOES exist, I now have one (Fujitsu-Seimens
> B-series) and it is a much quicker interface than a mouse or those awful
> touch pad mouses found on most laptops. Just point your pencil & jab
> (double jab), or drag, no clicking required. It's only a Celeron, so
> it's not so fast but it's only for running sim[ple audio programs live,
> I have a G3 as well
You can get many laptops retrofitted with touchscreens, and also LCD/CRT
screens which are either standalone or raw (you mount the screen in your
chassis, for instance if you were making a kiosk). I've seen
touchscreen-fitted powerbooks and ibooks.
The damage for, say, a 12.1" active matrix LCD screen with a serial or USB
interface is over a grand US$ - not cheap, but the effect is very nice.
There are a variety of methods used for touch screens: capacitive,
resistive, surface-wave, etc. We've had the best luck with the
surface-wave gear: very responsive and doesn't drift. You can poke at
these things with your finger all day and they're still nice and snappy.
We go with www.elotouch.com. (BTW "we" in the above means ETC Music Inc.,
where I work - see www.etcmusic.com for a pic of our pretty standalone
device)
later
Andrew
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