HP IQ504 Desktop goes all touchy feely.

Posted by: Brandon Steili on Jun 29 2008

So … while this is definitely not what I would consider mobile tech, it is a sign of the times when your fingers are become more "mouse" than clicker. Honestly I think the sign of the times just might be getting a little bit to much like a giant billboard with tiny writing … USELESS.

I really have to wonder what the heck the point is of having a desktop computer … which sits on a freaking desk … that has a touch screen?! I mean if you’re sitting in a chair (typically a couple feet from the screen) what good does having a touch screen do? I can see a touch screen laptop making sense. I can see it for POS Systems at McDonalds. Heck I can see it on a digital picture frame. But on a desktop? And a fully integrated $1300 desktop at that?!

It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me to be sitting at your desk, with mouse and keyboard within easy reach, and having to lean all the way forward to press on the screen and move a picture around or open an email … when you could without nearly as much body contortion just click the little mouse button and achieve the same effect. But maybe I’m just missing the point. Maybe there is a use for something like this… ? Somebody? Anybody? Bueller?

Anyway, if you can picture yourself touching, dragging and flicking your way through Windows Visturd … HP has a shiny new option for you in the IQ504 all-in-one touchscreen desktop. Just be careful when you’re using the amazing new "two finger scrolling" technology. I’d hate for you to two finger scroll your way into your coffee.

 

via thegadgetsite

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