ASUS Announces New Convertible Tablet Eee PC Discussion

[coldmack]

I think you can do multi-touch on resistive screens, but you need I think drivers and a screen capable of understanding the touch. I have used resistive screen for years on pocket pcs and smartphones, and now have a capacitive Android phone and in terms of comfort capacitive wins, accuracy is a wash, and multi-touch really isn't that big of a deal to me. Now on a larger screen like the S10-3t vs the Acer T101MT that could be a totally different story.

[notlofty]

I'm greatly interested in this discussion.
I haven't ever really heard the discussion of capacitive vs resistive as I'm new to the world of touch screens. I'm just researching and considering making this my first touch screen device when its released next month in the US.
Is it that resistive is more accurate at single touch but capacitive does multi-touch better? I don't think multi-touch is as important except to make the on screen keyboard better and pinch to zoom which doesn't need a whole lot of accuracy.
I also think the Asus* t101mt is a much more attractive machine than the s10-3t.
I have been doing my research a little bit and was trying to figure out what processors could be swapped out. Can all pineview processors be swapped with eachother? Like if you wanted to take a huge hit in battery life would it be possible to stick a D510 in this computer? I wonder if putting a processor with twice the watts of the one the device is made to hold would produce too much heat and burn up the machine. I know its possible to do atoms in fanless design but twice the watts sounds like a lot.
Also the D510 allows up to 4gb of ram while the N450/470 only allow for 2gb. Would swapping out the processor allow you to add more RAM?
I think it would be an interesting mod to put the D510, an SSD, and then pixelqi is made claims of DIYkits in Q2, all in this one very attractive small package. The SSD and the pixelqi screen could reduce the power consumption to try to make up for the added power consumption of the D510.
Edit:
Ok, according to the Intel site, the N450 and the D510 are both embedded making it hard to impossible to swap them out as they would be soldered into place. The N470 claims to not be embedded so maybe if you were able to find a D510 by itself and got the upgraded version it could be done? Or would you have to solder in the D510 making it impossible? So maybe my idea isn't possible to do all the way.

[Ahbeyvuhgehduh]

Hmm ... seems a good machine for taking notes, but that is about it. For my personal taste I like a little more horsepower in a cpu, that is, I like the notebook to be able to do a few more things ... but it looks very nice as a note-taking machine.