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To: clean86 who wrote (128858)	3/22/2012 6:04:01 AM
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<<HP may not be able to come up with a Phone or a Tablet but they make one heck of a touch screen PC. ...... ...... If I remember correctly Steve poo poo'ed the touch screen computer. >> For good reasons if you ever imagine using one, leaning across to a screen, especially a large separate one. The RSI and joint problems that would create would IMO more than compensate (ina bad way) for people like your aunt. There are a few reviews now that make the same point, this mixed way of working with a screen some feet ahead of you on a desk is very awkward, indeed close to unusable. Even on a laptop its poor ergonomics leaning across the keyboard, and why not just use a writing pad for something specialized like your aunts use. Or indeed, a tablet ! <<If Windows 8 is as good with Touch Screen as it is being advertised to be then HP will have a niche they can work.>> Thats going to be a very teeny niche, especially when you consider that tablets will take up a far bit of that It might help HP differentiate their PC's from others in what is a declining market segment (apart from the very significant rise of Mac purchases pulled in by synergy from the iPhone and iPad .. I'm sure many of us have anecdotal stories of friends or colleagues who started with one of those and as a result of that good experience, bought an iMac.)