17″ touch screen laptop computers

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Now, let me just preface this post by saying that there are not a whole lot of 17″ touch screen laptop computers around right now. Any type of non-tablet style touch screen laptop is a relatively new arrival to the scene, so our reviews are going to be a little bit lacking on the subject until there are more of them to review. However, a few companies have put out these laptop types recently that have really started to knock the socks off the mobile computer world. Dell specifically has put out a very impressive 17″ touch screen model that should be really impressive.

If the Dell Studio 17 laptops weren’t impressive already, they sure as heck are now. Dell has recently (like, not even a month ago) put out the new Dell Studio 17 Multi-Touch Edition laptop. This new Studio is just as impressive as their earlier Studio offerings, but it has one twist that you’ll love: The screen is a touch screen. This is a new direction for laptops period; this thing doesn’t look like your average tablet. It has a full keyboard and even looks like every other laptop you’ve ever known or used. The only difference is that instead of having to deal with a mouse to drag and drop items around, you can do it with your finger. Personally I think that’s a really neat feature; people are going to see a large increase in productivity when using these computers versus the previous versions. The Studio 17 specifically has always been known as a solid platform to do graphic arts and video editing, and now with this touch screen technology it’ll be almost the perfect laptop. Now, if Apple put out a wide-screen touch laptop I think we’d be all set.

This new Studio 17 Multi-Touch comes with a very powerful Core 2 Duo processor like its predecessors, and even comes with the usual 4GB of RAM (pretty nice for a <$1000 laptop) and up to 1TB of total hard drive capacity.

This laptop doesn’t have one 1TB hard drive, however. It actually has two 500GB hard drives shoehorned into its casing. I’m not exactly sure why they did it that way instead of putting in a readily-available 1TB drive, but Dell might have an ace up their sleeve as far as utilizing the second hard drive for backing up your data. Of course this wouldn’t quite be as good as say, a RAID array, but it’d be a good bit of redundancy. This Multi-Touch starts at $899. Pretty slick for what you get.