More and more computer manufactures are eagerly entering the touch screen laptop market these days. Acer isn’t one to be left behind. They recently introduced the Acer Aspire AS5745PG-3882 touch screen laptop computer.

This is one of Acer’s first computer to be shipped with a touch screen.There are some neat things about the AS5745PG touch screen laptop.  The first is cost.  The suggested retail cost of this touch screen laptop is only $999.  For the hardware that Acer put into this model, that’s an excellent price.  Acer is known for providing quality computers that the average Joe can afford.

This Acer touch screen laptop was launched with the intent to taking full advantage of Windows 7 multi touch features.  Windows 7 is the first operating system built to fully support mult touch technology.  The AS5745PG comes with a passive digitizer touch screen which means that users can use their fingers to interact with the touch screen.

It also supports multi touch and gestures.  A gesture is a sort of shortcut that the user can do by touching the touchscreen.  For example, the user can touch the touch screen and make a swirl and a list of navigation features pops on the screen.  If the user is reading an ebook on this touch screen laptop, he or she can touch the screen and turn the page just like turning the pages in a real book.  Pretty cool!

This touch screen laptop computer comes with a button that you can press to disable the touch screen though I’m not sure when you would actually want to.  After all you are buying a touch screen laptop to be able to use the touch screen.

Specifications:

• Windows 7 64 bit
• Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Mobile Processor(6MB Intel® Smart Cache, 1.6GHz)
• 4Gigs (2Gigs installed in each of two or four memory slots) DDR3 1066 SDRAM, upgradable to 16Gigs
• 15.6″ high definition touch screen 1366 x 768 px
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M graphics
• 500 Gig hard drive
• WiFi  802.11a/b/g/n
• Bluetooth
• Ethernet
• Dolby Built-In Stereo Speakers
• Webcam
• 8X DVD Blue-ray combo drive
• HDMI port, VGA Port, RJ-45 LAN, and 4 USB Ports
• Measures 14.9″x 9.8″ x 1.0″
• 5.7 pounds with the battery installed

If you are in the market for a touch screen laptop computer that has a lot of muscle but is still affordable, the Acer Aspire AS5745PG-3882 may be right up your alley.  It’s affordable cost will put touch screen laptops in the hands of a lot of people who are anxious to try out this new way of interfacing with computers but couldn’t afford the higher priced models.

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Consumers around the world waited anxiously for the iPad to hit store shelves earlier this year.  Never before can I remember an electronic gadget having so much buzz surrounding it.  People were talking about it for months.  There were plenty of opinions about the new electronic wonder and few actually had a chance to try it out before chiming in.  Some claimed that it was just a poor attempt to compete with all of the mini laptop computers that have been flooding the market. Apple made it available for a few lucky reviewers at trade shows but the rest of us had to wait patiently.

When March 5th came around, thousands and thousands of hungry Apple fans stormed the Apple stores to be the first on their block to own this new piece of technology.  By the first of May, over a million units had already been sold!  The early ipad sales outperformed the previous record holder which was the iphone.

So, it’s been a few months since consumers around the world started taping away on their ipads.  You might be wondering what the general consensus has been about it.  Did it live up to the hype?  Surprisingly enough, for the majority of users, it’s all that it was promised to be.

Most users report that they enjoy it most for web browsing.  It’s been compared with sitting down with a good book.  Books are compact and you can sit virtually anywhere with one and make yourself comfortable.  With a touch screen notebook, you kind of need to find someplace to set the computer.  You can set it in your lap but it’s not the same has holding a book.  Holding the ipad feels more like holding a book than a computer.  It is the perfect size at 9.56″ tall by 7.47″ wide and only half and inch thick.  It’s also lightweight at only 1 and a half pounds.

Unlike  touch screen notebook computers, the ipad has the endurance of a marathon runner.  With a full charge, the battery will last over 10 hours.  No  laptop can come close to that performance.  Users report that this 10 hour battery life isn’t just advertising hype either.

Another area that the ipad shines is as an ebook reader.  Up until now the Amazon Kindle had a corner on the ebook reader market.  The ipad’s ebook reader software is easy to use and quite customizable.   The number of ebooks available for the ipad pales in comparison to the number that are available for Kindle but that’s not a problem because the ipad supports ebooks that are formated for the Kindle.

There’s one aspect where the ipad doesn’t match up to touch screen notebook computers and that’s data entry.  The ipad comes with a little program that looks like a qwerty keyboard but it’s not the easiest to type on.  You don’t have the same tactile feel of typing on a regular keyboard and it’s easy to make mistakes.  Touch screen notebooks have the edge in this area.  You can type on the standard keyboard or you can make your data entry and selections by touching the screen.

So the answer to the question of whether the Apple Ipad is just another touch screen notebook is no.  It’s in a class by itself.  Nothing else on the market compares to it.  It’s not really a question of whether to buy an ipad or a touch screen laptop.  There is a place for both gadgets and it’s worth owning both.

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