Re: All-in-one touch screen computers

2011-05-10 Thread Ian Stokes-Rees
Would installing Linux on such a machine take away most of the advantage to the touch screen? (These machines typically come bundled with things like photo viewing apps and the like that are purposely designed for touch screen interaction.) Anyone tried Linux on one of these? I can't

Re: All-in-one touch screen computers

2011-05-10 Thread Tom Metro
Mark Dúlcey wrote: I can't imagine that current Linux distros would work well, as they have no touch screen UI. What might work would be a port of one of the variants of Linux designed for mobile phones (Android, or maybe even MeeGo if anybody is still working on that). A tablet flavor

Re: All-in-one touch screen computers

2011-05-09 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 5/9/2011 9:45 PM, Tom Metro wrote: I see there are a bunch of All-in-one touch screen computers on the market now. HP seemed to lead this trend, but now Dell, Gateway, Asus, and MSI have similar models. Structurally they're like a laptop built-in to a large screen, plus touch navigation.