HP Touchsmart TX2
June 22, 2011 – 8:00 amThe Touchsmart TX2 from HP is a dual-mode laptop which has a conventional keyboard but allows the screen to be twisted thru 180 degrees and folded back onto the keyboard to become a tablet. With HP you expect a quality product and the Touchsmart does not disappoint, it’s both stylish and well made feeling and looking robust.
Touch input is through using your fingers or the supplied stylus pen which is slotted into the Touchsmart TX2′s case. Whilst using the stylus pen the TX2 intelligently ignores any contact between your hand and the screen, smoething which I’ve found really frustrating when using other tablet pc’s with stylus pens. Multi-touch input is provided for but a maximum of two fingers are recognised, this isn’t badly limiting but it reduces the effectiveness of the multi-touch compared to some other systems where 3 or 4 contact points are recognised simultaneously.
The Touchsmart TX2 has a generally rock solid performance in benchmarking tests the 4GB of RAM helps along the Turion X2 Ultra processor running at 2.3Ghz. With many machines opting for solid state storage now it’s unusual to see the Touchsmart packing a traditional HD with a tasty 400GB of room. In terms of battery the four cell is weak so the eight cell battery is a must-have and will return over 2 hours of mobile use.
So if you want a dual mode laptop then the HP Touchsmart offers good standard performance, great build quality and a touchscreen which in particular works well with the stylus pen, its a decent all-rounder.
