Comments on: First Dell, then HP: What's next for N-trig's multitouch screen technology?

Crave talks to Lenny Engelhardt, N-trig's VP of Business Development, about the company's multitouch technology.

[inachu]

I hope this will work with World of Warcraft!

[xZero2007x]

@inachu
I don't play WoW, but I have seen enough of it to know this will be merely a novelty if used with WoW. While it may be interesting to roam a bit, just thinking about it briefly brought up some obstacles that'll make you regret using the N-Trig technology with WoW. Kind of like playing WoW via Wii motes.

On a broader note, I might definitely think about grabbing the Latitude. It seems functional enough to actually be useful, and would definitely impress the heck out of my clients.
I hate Dell, but if a 3-yr warranty's already factored into the price and I think about it hard enough, I may try it out.
..or use it as spare parts and slap the screen onto something else.

[xZero2007x]

Then again, if I remember correctly from the previous article posted on this, the specs on the Latitude were pitiful and the HP offering only spat out AMD. Hm...

[markntravis]

I think I read somewhere (gottabemobile.com I think) that there were major problems with the N Trig system. Have these been fixed?

[XT_User]

I've used a Latitude XT for almost a year now - and I think the comments you'll find on Gottabemoble are overblown. For example - you'll find a link on their site to some Norwegian guys who ran over their Latitude with a minivan (twice) - and it still worked, LCD and digitizer were still functional. I find their site amusing but not representative of the average business tablet user. N-trig also now has a customer FAQ and bulletin board on their site: http://www.n-trig.com/Content.aspx?Page=Bulletin_Board

Some of the user issues appeared to revolve around an Itunes driver - and I've heard on the blogs that a fix is in the works. The HP and the Dell are really two very different systems - one aimed at Business and one at the consumer - take your pick.

[xZero2007x]

@XT_User
I realize that one's aimed at business users and the other at consumers... but what we're really looking at is the hardware. Last I checked, the Latitude only came core-solo (I'm hoping for at least a C2D offering) while the HP came AMD-only.
Well, it'll be only a matter of time before the offerings increase I guess. The ideal time to buy this would be some amount of time before Windows 7 comes out--or before the technology is pushed further with the Windows 7 development (WELL you could always replace the software/OS, but I mean for the sake of experiencing it with matching hardware...)