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Most of the upcoming netbooks will have Touch-Screen displays
A lot of touchpanel manufactures are predicting the netbook manufactures to adopt the touch screen displays for their upcoming netbooks to utilize some of the features in Windows 7 OS. It would require just $30 to add a touch panel to a netbook that has less than 12-inch screen.
It would also allow the possibility to completely do away with the trackpad and further shrink the size of the netbook.
EEE PC T91 for just $549! – ASUS to redefine the price range of Tablets?
Looks like ASUS is really going to make the tablets finally popular among the consumers. Let’s face it, tablets have always been confined to the executives and businessmen. The main reason that the tablets were not received nicely in the consumer market was due to high ‘price’. But, with the $549 price tag, ASUS has hit the sweet spot between functionality and price.
Also, we have heard that ASUS has added few really exciting utilities that are very finger friendly. This is already looking like a winner to me.
Click on read more to know the full specifications of this exciting tablet
Companies preparing to introduce Multi-Touch technology in netbooks and UMPCs
Plethora of Taiwanese LCD manufactures are readying themselves for the Windows 7′s multi-touch feature. Young Fast Optoelectronics, a Taiwanese company has already started manufacturing capacitive screens for the notebooks and will soon start manufacturing for the netbooks. Resistive touch screen makers like Mildex Optical will also start production to give some competition to the capacitive screen manufactures.
Windows 7 will probably be launched later this year (or early next year) and most of the netbook manufactures will FINALLY make switch from Windows XP to Windows 7. The reason is simple: Windows 7 offers some great multi-touch features which can change the way we use our devices and it will result in bump in demand of touch panels in netbooks/UMPCs.
