HP TouchSmart tm2 Review
The HP TouchSmart tm2 offers incredibly accurate touch recognition so that you can draw, tap, touch and move objects on the screen with great ease. This functionality makes it a great machine for those who have the great need to scribe copious amounts of notes and diagrams down. This is highly beneficial for university students. This notebook is both compact and extremely powerful with the ability to transform into a tablet. The multi-touch technology further enhances the usability of this device. With integrated software that allow for multi-touch recognition, you can find yourself doodling away or creating your next masterpiece. The HP TouchSmart tm2 will make your computing experience that much more fun while looking good in its slim and stylish design.
Product Specifications:
- Intel Core2 Duo Processor SU7300 (1.3 GHz, 3 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB)
- 4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 DIMM) (expandable to 8 GB)
- 320GB (7200RPM) Hard Drive (SATA)
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, * Up to 9.75 Hours of Battery Life
- Diagonal WXGA HD HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800).
- Panel rotates 180° and folds flat.
- Zero Force TouchSmart Display, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD with up to 1695MB total available Graphics Memory
Product Dimensions:
11.9 x 8.7 x 1 inches; 4.7 pounds
The HP TouchSmart TM2 is a great machine, and what makes it greater is the addition of a responsive capacitive touch screen. This sets this HP touch screen laptop apart from all the rest because its screen is responsive and great to write on. There are two methods of input, finger input or pen input with the Wacom digitising pen. The pen supports pressure sensitivity, making it like a normal pen ,press hard and you get a thick line and vice versa. Finger input is fun because of the addition of multi touch allowing for gestures such as pinch to zoom and flicking through galleries. The screen is covered in a glossy but low glare screen making it ideal for watching movies and viewing pictures.
The battery can last you a whole working day or 7 hours. This is based on a whole days heavy use with Wi-Fi and all. Like most machines, this one comes with its own free software that helps add to the experience. The HP TouchSmart software is a great way to navigate through your laptops menu’s offering a graphic and user friendly alternative to the normal mouse. You will also find a good alternative to MS paint, “Corel Paint it!” is a program that supports both finger and pen drawing. It is built around a 1.3Ghz processor and it is anything but slow. You will find that this machine is fast enough for most of the standard tasks you can throw at it. Applications such as Photoshop CS4 run fairly well on it with no major noticeable lag.
In conclusion this is a great machine for all those who need a scribing tablet. This is no Apple Ipad but it does offer the significantly greater processing power of a true mobile computer. You also get a physical keyboard plus an operating system. Windows 7 has great integration for tablet based input and surely this will be a great machine worthy of the praise and awards it has received.
