Questions about teh tx1000 series

I was thinking about purchasing the tx 1000 series from HP but i was wondered if it would be worth pulling the trigger on it now or will i regret not waiting for the next update?

any chance that an Intel chipset is coming soon?

 

Next new thing from Intel is Penryn, slated for spring next year.

 

sorry...i didnt make myself clear..

is there a chance of intel chipset based tx1000 series soon? or is it worth it just to pick up the turion based

 

HP just recently(a week ago) updated the tx1000 series. So, any new updats are unlikely to happen. If you want an Intel based HP tablet then consider the business model 2710p but you will be paying a lot more compared to the tx1000.

 

Nothing has been released from HP about the tx1000z series' future.

 

does anyone have a high res pic that displays the "graininess"of the touchscreen...i want to get an idea of how grainy it really is

 

1. Who said it was grainy? This is the HP forum, not the Dell forum.
2. High-res pictures cannot capture graininess. The only way to see it is if you actually look at a grainy LCD.

 

1. Who said it was grainy?
Pretty much everyone- If you google TX1000 GRAINY SCREEN you get alot of hits-
2. High-res pictures cannot capture graininess. The only way to see it is if you actually look at a grainy LCD.
Very true- gotta head to circuit city and check it out.
from Tabletpcreview.com:

The screen is slightly grainy, but you will get this with any Tablet PC due to the extra layer needed for tablet funtionality.

In their forums there's a post by someone who claims to manufacture the screens giving insight:

You are right in some respects, the brightness is reduced mainly by the coatings or very fine wires depending on the technology. I believe though that if the wires happen to coincide with a pixel or row of pixels it will give the grainy effect, it may change depending on the viewing angle. Some other technologies are not very good with scratches either, our technology doesn't have any issue with scratches, hence it can be "touched" millions and millions of times without any wear.

and his previous post was interesting to anyone (like myself) who are not really keen on how this tablet really works:

It is optical imaging, a new technology and not widely known about outside the Touch Screen industry. Rather than LED's all around the edge there are only 2 image sensors in the top corners of the screen, you can see them if you look closely under the bezel. IR is shone out from these sensors and received back from the material around the edge of the glass, once broken by a finger or stylus the image senors can triangulate a position and therefore a touch. Multi-touch is possible on our technology and we ares stylus independent, anything can be used to touch the screen. The benefits of our technology are many, but for this application, clarity of image is key, people don't want to watch TV on a screen that filters out 30% of the image because of a coating on the surface needed for a Touch screen. Hope this is of interest to you all.