Finally, the U5600 will be available in touch- and non-touch-enabled configurations, while the 7600U will be touch-only.
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Back around CES 2012, we thought regular old, non-touch Ultrabooks would still be easy to come by.
As we've already mentioned, the Cintiq 24HD touch has much the same design as the previous, non-touch offering.
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The hard drive capacity varies, too: the non-touch one starts with 500GB of space, while the TouchSmart has 750GB.
Other particulars: they all have 1, 366 x 768 matte displays (non-touch), with the 17-inch model stepping up to 1, 600 x 900.
And to add complexity, a second button can disable the outer screen altogether, turning the expensive machine into a non-touch, standard notebook.
Like the non-touch version, it's rated for eight hours of runtime.
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The problem with Windows 8 is that Microsoft decided to shove a highly inefficient touch-based user interface onto millions of PC users using non-touch desktops and notebooks.
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And many of them already are catching themselves with increasing frequency trying to reach out and touch non-touch enabled screens in the course of doing their work.
The vivid and animated tiles fill the screen and are built for multi-touch compatible computers (although you can still navigate live tiles with a mouse on a non-touch screen).
Mr. Pichai said the high price tag was justified and argued that the Pixel "stands up very well against a MacBook Air, " a non-touch-screen laptop made by Apple Inc.
First, touch-enabled laptops running the new OS are more expensive than non-touch versions, giving consumers a reverse incentive to adopt a new screen experience which is clearly designed for touch.
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The operating system was built for fingers, after all, and if that's appealing to you, the Air, Series 9 and non-touch Zenbook Primes might all be the wrong choice for you.
We found ourselves tapping at the panel simply out of habit, but quickly adapted to the non-touch model -- the comfortable, responsive keyboard and clickpad certainly make that omission easier to swallow.
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Unfortunately, because the unit we handled was an early-stage prototype, it wasn't actually functioning as it should, but MSI says the display would allow for touch input, since the primary 17.3-inch (1080p) screen will be non-touch.
As we noted in our hands-on, this is basically the same Series 5 we reviewed earlier this year, except the touchscreen adds some heft (it now weighs 3.83 pounds, versus 3.24 for the non-touch version).
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Speaking of Toshiba, the company's fledgling desktop line is in the midst of a transition of sorts: it's phrasing out its non-touch-enabled DX series and ushering in the LX series, some of which will have touchscreens.
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Though both models will be offered with AMD Trinity processors only, the TouchSmart starts with an AMD A8 chip and 6GB of RAM, while the non-touch version starts with an A6 APU and four gigs of memory.
Mr Dell added that the new touchscreen products would cost more to produce than their non-touch equivalents, suggesting they should fall within the price bracket Dell targets, rather than the super-low end of the market that it had opted out of.
The Lifebook SH Series are 13.3-inch Core i5 models with 1366 x 768 non-touch panels, while the UH Series feature 13.3-inch and 14-inch models with Core i3 and i5 processors, respectively, along with 1360 x 768 non-touch panels and weighing in at a low of around 3 pounds.
For small businesses, the ThinkPad Edge E431 and E531 laptops introduce a unique Lenovo OneLink technology for new docking capabilities, and to complete the new range of Windows 8 touch devices, the ThinkPad Mobile Monitor makes a great companion as a second display, especially for complementing non-touch devices with touch functionality.
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The non-scratch touch surface is made of reinforced glass with a hardness of 5.5 Mohs, to ensure it has the durability to withstand use in schools, hospitals, and public access areas.
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That Nielsen possesses enough talent and a deft-enough touch to score more frequently in non-shootout situations is beyond dispute.
The surface is super slick (AKA super fingerprint friendly), though the base of the laptop utilizes a soft-touch, non-slip surface that's nice to handle.
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Strauss currently wears a compression sleeve and glove, gives herself light-touch massages, and does non-weight-bearing exercises to treat her lymphedema.
"I'm keeping in touch weekly with all of the non-playing staff, as are all the other players abroad, " he said.
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This non-TV TV, which he called the iHub, would feature a 32-inch screen with touch, gesture, voice, and iPad control and could be hung on the wall wherever the family congregates for planning, talking, or eating.
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On the non-waterproof case, all of the above applies except for being able to touch the screen.
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Whether your business is media, financial services, retailing, B2B, or even non-profit, your director of analytics should be able to rattle off your key customer touch points, tell you the current strategies for measuring those touch points and let you know which touch points would most benefit from improvements in measurement.
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