HP Announces TouchSmart tx2z: The First Multi-Touch Consumer Laptop

November 19th, 2008 by Joanna Stern

HP’s TouchSmart PC has brought multi-touch computing mainstream, so why not throw those capabilities into a laptop. That is exactly HP’s thought with its announcement today of the HP TouchSmart tx2z tablet.

Evolving out of the HP Pavilion Tx2500, the TouchSmart TX2 sports a similar convertible chassis but its updated capacitive touch screen and multi-touch drivers by N-Trig can support multiple points of input on the 12.1-inch 1280×800 display. This is the first laptop aimed at consumers to support multi-touch. To date only the business Dell Latitude XT has supported multi-touch input.

Check out our exclusive hands-on video here to see the Tx2’s multi-touch in action and our first impressions of the notebook.

With a starting price of $1,149.99 the Tx2z will be configurable on HP’s Web site starting today and will ship to customers on November 28. See the full specs of the system below the jump.

AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core or AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processors
ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3200 Graphics with 64MB Display Cache Memory avilable
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate or Home Preimum or Business
12.1” diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) w/Integrated Touch-screen
Up to 8GB DDR2 System Memory
160/250/320/400/500GB 5,400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Super Multi 8X DVD+/-R/RW w/Double Layer Support
802.11 b/g WLAN, Bluetooth avilable
Battery: 4-cell, 6-cell, or 8-cell
Dimensions: 12.05 x 8.82 x 1.23 -inches
Weight: 4.33 pounds