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    Notebook with LED touch screen for touchpad

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by min2209, Sep 21, 2011.

  1. min2209

    min2209 Notebook Deity

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    I just happened to come across something like this today:

    Sharp's New Netbook Has a Touch-Screen Trackpad - HotHardware

    Sadly, this was from two years ago, and there do not seem to be any further progress with this. Does anyone know whether any other manufacturers might be looking into this?

    The additional manufacturing cost should be pretty low, considering a small capacitive touch screen probably only costs $30 (eg the iPhone 4 LCD costs $28, see 16GB iPhone 4 Parts Cost $187.51. Adding some circuitry shouldn't be bad either, considering it's probably just one more assembly on the motherboard.

    The things you could do with it would be pretty limitless. You can use it as a display for everything in your task bar (open windows, processes, time) and thus free up screen space. Running full screen games and having system conditions or even a simple chat client (eg mobile MSN) on there would also be cool, can now chat without tabbing out. Can also use it for pen input. And besides, it just plain looks cool.

    Any ideas?
     
    min2209, Sep 21, 2011
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  2. fred2028

    fred2028 Sexy member

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    Sounds like a good idea to me. I always multitask and would love a way to FB/MSN when I am gaming or watching a movie. If a well-performing and well-priced laptop had an LED/LCD touchpad (*cough* not Razer Blade) I'd definitely configure it.
     
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  3. R3d

    R3d Notebook Virtuoso

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    R3d, Sep 21, 2011
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  4. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Looks like what's in the Razer Blade.

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    HTWingNut, Sep 21, 2011
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