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Hewlett Packard is planning to embrace touchscreen devices more ferociously and is thought to be on the verge of launching both a touchscreen laptop and a series of touchscreen phones. A spokeswoman for the PC giant confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that it’s “building a whole family of touch devices”. Although the …

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  1. andrew wavey
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    Linux

    I wonder if linux will support the hardware? That would be awesome with Compiz/Emerald!!!

  2. Patrick Bateman
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    Worst idea ever since...

    ... Abraham Lincoln said: " I'm sick of kicking around the house all day, let's go take in a show."

    Who in Satan's glorious name would want to hold out their arm in front of them for hours and smear grease all over that beautiful, glassy screen? The beauty of the mouse is that I can sit back and control everything with barely a twitch of my hand. Even leaning forward to type something is a major arsepain. I bet they did no user trials for this whatsoever - and I mean proper ones, lasting at least a month, not those fake Microsoft "I can't believe it's Vista" interviews.

    Mind you, I think touch screen phones are cack of the runniest kind too - my typing speed on them is about a tenth of what it is on a button keyboard.

  3. jake Silver badge

    Gawd/ess

    Didn't they figure out the last four or five times that touch screens on the desktop are worse than pointless (single-tasking kiosks aside)?

    The more we forget history, the more ...

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