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You know, HP has really been leading the way in terms of
touchscreen technology in desktops and portable computers.
And this is one of their latest. It's the TouchSmart tx2,
12.1'' screen, TouchSmart notebook.
And, this is a really, really cool little piece of kit here.
It is a convertible tablet computer with a touchscreen,
as well as a digitizer built into the screen.
So you're going to be able to use a digitzer pin or just your fingers.
Built-in SRS, stereo surround sound. It's got an AMD Turion Dual-Core
processor on board with 2.2 GHz. 4 GB of DDR2 RAM.
320 GB hard drive.
It has Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition pre-installed.
This little, 12.1'' screen actually has a 1280 x 800 resolution on it.
Very high resolution for a small, compact screen.
It's got the ATI Radeon mobility 3200 graphics chipset on board.
And it's got all of the extra goodies.
It's got the fingerprint reader over here.
It's got the webcam up here. And, some of the software on board
this computer makes using all this extra stuff
a lot more fun than on other computers.
So, let me go ahead and show you around this thing first.
And then we'll show you some of the really cool software
that HP has developed for these computers.
This is actually a multi-touch enabled notebook.
So, you're going to be able to use more than one finger at a time
when browsing pictures and using the photo library.
But, let me go ahead and show you around here.
Up here is your HP webcam built into the bezel here.
Over on the side you've got three quick access buttons.
One for screen rotation, one for getting to the actual touch interface,
and one for getting to all of your various settings.
Over here on the front, you've got three more media buttons for volume.
These are for volume up, volume down, and mute,
all located right here.
Your touch pad is at the bottom.
It does have a scroll zone right here, two buttons,
and a button for disabling the touch pad all together,
if you so desire.
Up front you see that there is an infrared port,
two headphone ports and a microphone port up there, as well.
Now, over here on the side,
you're going to find your DVDRW, right here,
that does have LightScribe on board,
so you are going to be able to burn images and labels
directly on to your DVDs.
Over here you're going to find your card reader,
as well as your Express 34 slot,
right here, for using with various 3G cards and the like.
Your power port is right here. You've got two USB ports
and a modem on the back.
And then, over on the other side,
you're gonna find a VGA port,
the HP Expansion Port 3, right here, to be used with
various docking stations and expansion ports.
Your land port. A USB port,
and your digitizer tablet pin is located on the side, as well.
And also on the front, a couple things I forgot to point out to you,
a hard button for your wireless, located right here,
and your power button, located over here on the other side.
Now, as I was saying before, the software on this
is what makes it really, really cool.
As you can see, it is a convertable tablet computer.
So you are able to put it into tablet mode, which covers the keyboard.
And, but it is also a complete touch screen.
Now, most tablets that are out there,
you have to use the digitizer pin, right?
Now, of course you can use the digitizer pin on board
this particular notebook, if you want.
As you can see, the digitizer pin works really, really well.
But, you can also simply use your fingers.
Now, to get to the touchscreen interface, simply push this button right here,
which gives us these icons. If you want to browse all your photos,
you simply push the photo icon right there,
and the HP TouchSmart Photo Browser comes up
allowing you to see all of the photos in your library.
Now, here they come. Now, if you want to take a look
at all your photos, you simply push "All Photos" right here.
And you can get to all of your pictures.
You push the picture that you want to see.
Up it comes. You can flick through your photos.
You can actually use multi touch to do things like,
to rotate, and move your photos, as well.
So, as I said, that's very cool.
There are not very many multi-touch laptops on the market.
This is one of the very, very few.
You are also going to find your video library,
on board here, as well. You simply push the video library button,
and it will take you to your video library.
And also in the video library, it gives you access to your webcam.
Now, you know, most laptops, most computers
all have webcams already built-in.
What makes this particular notebook special
is that the actual webcam software that is on board
has all kinds of extra, fun stuff on it.
You can very easily add captions. You can come in here
and you have various different avatars that you can create.
So that when you're doing your webcam chatting,
and all that stuff, you're actually able to have an avatar.
represent you instead of your actual face.
There's actually, there's tons of digital affects built-in,
allowing you to use this webcam in ways that
you haven't ever used a webcam before.
Which is actually very, very cool.
As you can see, the notebook has that really nice,
puter, xx HP silver color with all of that graphic design on it.
Also on the front you're gonna see lots of graphic design.
It makes the notebook look very, very nice,
very, very sharp. And overall, you're gonna have a lot of fun
with this particular notebook, because it's so completely versatile.
If you want to use the track pad, use the track pad.
If you want to use an external mouse, use the external mouse.
It does have Bluetooth built-in, so you can use a Bluetooth mouse.
In fact, if you don't already have a Bluetooth mouse,
you should probably get one to go along with this computer.
It's got a/b/g and n wireless built in.
So, it's ready for the fastest wireless streaming that you can possibly do.
And, overall, it's just a very fun package.
You can always use it in touch mode.
We're getting more and more used to touching our screens
on our cell phones, and our notebooks.
Now you can do it right here with this HP TouchSmart tx2,
the AMD Dual Core Turion Processor.
To get more info on this HP TouchSmart tx2 Notebook,
with a 12.1'' screen, go to any of these retailers
and type in: H25-120004
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