Dell Launches Its First Rugged Touch-screen Laptop

Iria · Mar 10, 2009, 04:25 AM

Dell on Tuesday is expected to launch the tough Latitude E6400 XFR laptop with a touch screen, which the company claims can withstand drops, dust and high-pressure water sprays.
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Source: PC World

BlueMak · Mar 10, 2009, 05:15 AM

I never liked touch screens for PCs. It seems counter productive that you need more time, speed and space to do the same thing you can easily do with a mouse or trackball.

Mar 10, 2009, 04:25 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Dell Launches Its First Rugged Touch-screen Laptop Dell on Tuesday is expected to launch the tough Latitude E6400 XFR laptop with a touch screen, which the company claims can withstand drops, dust and high-pressure water sprays. ________________ Source: PC World

Mar 10, 2009, 05:15 AM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Re: Dell Launches Its First Rugged Touch-screen Laptop I never liked touch screens for PCs. It seems counter productive that you need more time, speed and space to do the same thing you can easily do with a mouse or trackball. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*