What’s the up-to-date situation re: n-trig in general and pressure sensitivity in PhotoShop, Painter…etc, in particular?

The use of n-trig in a consumer machine seems premature if the many aches and bumps I’m reading about with Dell’s tablet haven’t been smoothed. Especially given the sad hp tech support attested to in above posts.
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Gordon, that is not always true. I have a dv4 “entertainment notebook” or whatever the heck HP calls it which has the intel centrino 2 chipset.

I would honestly be in mobile computing heaven if I could have my dv4 notebook with the convertible touch screen goodness of the tx2. I’m a college student and I love my laptop however I wish I could use it with my math class. A traditional notebook isn’t very good with math IMO since you can’t write out your problems, thus you have to fall back on that old technology some people call pen/pencil and paper.

Flying Shawn: HP have been copying and pasting that mistake for nearky two years. It’s a good way of fiding out whether a reviewer is just copying and pasting from the HP press release. The TX2xxx lasts around 4 hours on the 8 cell.

AdamW: Since this is a refresh of the TX line an intel proocessor meand new motherboard and probably chassis as well. Consumer = AMD, Business = Intel. And my TX2000 runs Photoshop just as fast as any equivalent intel box I’ve used.

Gordon

Hey James, would you please tell your contacts at HP that they need to re-release this notebook but with an INTEL processor in it? I love the new tx2 however I love my P8600 and nvidia 9200 even more.

I don’t understand why their tablets always run AMD chips. I’m sure they could push a few more units if they either switched to Intel only or offered the choice.

I was really excited about this as a possible replacement for when my trusty old Toshiba Tecra M4 dies, until I went to HP’s site and tried configuring one to see what the cost would end up being.

Then I stumbled across something rather disturbing: when I got to the page where you can select which size battery you want, I noted that under the “8 Cell” option it said “Up to 2 hours, 15 minutes of battery life” (with the fine print at the bottom specifying that the benmark was made with MobileMark 2007 and the wireless functionality off). Unless this is a miss-print by HP and that note belongs with the 4 cell battery (which isn’t even an option at the moment), that’s just pitiful for the largest battery option available! I could understand if that was a BatteryEater score, but I don’t think that MobileMark is a battery stress test (could be wrong on that).

It occurs to me that I should relay a few other observations after using the previous version of this notebook for the past 4 months.
1) I like the concept and feature set.
2) Build quality is extremely poor. The fingerprint reader is improperly mounted, the latch was broken out of the box, and one of the Ctrl keys requires extreme pressure to activate.
3) Worst keyboard on any notebook I have ever used.
4) Battery life is horrid.
5) HP service is poor. They sent the unit back without having fixed the problems I reported and reimaged the hard drive with the wrong OS (I purchased it with 64-bit Vista and it was returned with 32-bit Vista).

Summary — good concept and design, very poor execution and follow-through.

Looks like a VERY minor update to the existing tx2500, which was a VERY minor update to the tx2120. My tx2120 just came back from the HP service depot (after 2 weeks) still non-functional. HP seems to favor marketing hype over technical excellence.

This is the N-Trig digitizer. Here’s the link:

http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/notebook/buy.html

Hmmm, for soem reason the pictures show up in Firefox but not in IE7 for me; oh well…

Is this also an N-Trig capacitive digitizer, or is it some other tech? Do you have the link for ordering?

Thanks.

The tx2000 has a resistive touch digitizer which works nothing like this capacitive digitizer. This is the first consumer notebook (only the second of any kind) that offers it.

I’m not quite sure how this unit is different from my TX 2000 I have here. Apart from the multitouch perhaps. Maybe the old models support it too, its just not turned on?

They show up for me.

Hmmm, for some reason, the photos do not show in this post (the other posts below) look fine. Am in the only one with this problem; I want to see some PICTURES !!!