A few days ago, Microsoft unveiled that the next version of Windows, codenamed Windows 7, will have multitouch capabilities.  I have been planning on buying a new monitor to replace my old CRT one, but with this recent announcement, I would like to buy one that will allow me to take advantage of the multitouch capabilities in the future.  Does anyone know of any models that are available in the mainstream that are not outrageously expensive that would meed these requirements?

I would go with either HP or Dell to purchase a touchscreen monitor.  Their monitors are of great quality.  I browsed through HP and Dell to find the lowest price on a fairly good touchscreen monitor,  here are the two monitors I found:

Dell E157FPT 15-inch Touch-screen Flat Panel Monitor - $529.00
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HP L5006tm 15-inch Touchscreen Monitor - $514.00
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I know these prices seem expensive for a touch screen monitor, and you can find lower cost touch screen monitors from other generic brands.  I would stick with Dell/HP because they’re a well known brand.  You don’t want to end up buying a low cost monitor and having bad quality.  I would save up and invest in a good monitor.

Both of those monitors are quite sharp, but I think they are priced more for someone with a business. How would you incorporate that with a home computer? touch where you want a character to go with your finger instead of a point-and-click interface? tap a folder to browse? I think it might be a little inconvenient with a system on a desk where you sit and the monitor is up high. your arms would get tired of all the movement so far away from the body after a short period of time. (ex-postal carrier experience)

Good point purjewl, I don’t think their intention is to replace the mouse and keyboard with multitouch capabilities, but rather to augment.  I am not sure how mainstream this technology is going to be in the future, but I was thinking I might hedge my bets and go ahead and get one with touchscreen.  However, looking at the prices, it seems like its going to be a very costly venture at this point in time, especially since I am looking for a monitor thats about 19” (I forgot to mention that in my initial post).  Thanks for the responses so far though

Istartedsomething.com has some great articles on Windows 7.They even have screenshots of how it will look like.Be prepared to upgrade your machine, i think coz i heard that thing is slower than Vista & needs 4GB ram atleast to run smoothly.

Well, currently, there are not many multi-touch enabled screens. But you should check out touch screens made by Tyco Electronics’ ELO TouchSystems. http://www.elotouch.com/ Microsoft’s Windows 7 Demo used a multi-touch screen from Tyco. I’d definitely check their website every so often for multi-touch screens. *i won’t recommend getting one right now, because the technology of multi-touch is still pretty new, i’d wait a while before purchasing one. @sushrukh, I doubt you need to upgrade your machine… unless your computer can’t run Vista, then yes, you have to upgrade. Because Windows 7 is basically a rebuild of Vista, it still uses Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) which makes all the fancy Aero Interface. So if your computer can run Vista and is capable with Vista’s Aero interface, you don’t have to upgrade.

yeah, most touch screen monitors i see
seem to be aimed more at business due to their price and size
i dont think ill be able to get one any time soon lol :D

Whoa, I didn’t know about touchscreen monitors. That is super neat and so…high tech! As I’ve mentioned before, it’s amazing how technology is changing and growing so quickly…this will be something I’ll definitely keep an eye on. Wow.

yeah, its cool watching all these new things released so fast :D
touch screen monitors a bit old but theyre still very interesting to me since the only ones iv used are the ones at walmart that help you find things lol

They should make the HP DX dragon laptop touch screen. Windows 7 will support that and this Laptop should be future proof for that much money!!!

1 problem with that,
iv heard that the dragon eats up electricity like crazy
the touch screen would probably make it go faster @__@

I always liked the touch screens at work, but they could be very tricky if you didn’t hit them just right. The Elo systems are for large corporations. I used to use something similar to them when I worked in a warehouse and had to keep track of production lines with freight. They were quite interesting, and I wished then that I could have had one at home.

Shan Gee - 31 May 2008 06:37 PM

I would go with either HP or Dell to purchase a touchscreen monitor.  Their monitors are of great quality.  I browsed through HP and Dell to find the lowest price on a fairly good touchscreen monitor,  here are the two monitors I found:

Dell E157FPT 15-inch Touch-screen Flat Panel Monitor - $529.00
Link

HP L5006tm 15-inch Touchscreen Monitor - $514.00
Link

I know these prices seem expensive for a touch screen monitor, and you can find lower cost touch screen monitors from other generic brands.  I would stick with Dell/HP because they’re a well known brand.  You don’t want to end up buying a low cost monitor and having bad quality.  I would save up and invest in a good monitor.

Here we go again just when monitor prices were starting to go down. Now with touch being the latest thing. We will have to re-buy are HD LCD monitors again. Does any one know if the just make a screen you can slide on your monitor to make it a touch screen. I have seen this before on Old Point of Sale systems.

Purjewl - 01 June 2008 02:10 AM

I always liked the touch screens at work, but they could be very tricky if you didn’t hit them just right. The Elo systems are for large corporations. I used to use something similar to them when I worked in a warehouse and had to keep track of production lines with freight. They were quite interesting, and I wished then that I could have had one at home.

yeah thats a pain with the ones in the stores here
the buttons being so close together on the screens sometimes i hit the wrong ones :\
i guess thats the downside to not being able to feel each individual key