Cheap Touch Screen Laptop

Today's artist is not limited to pencil and paper. The digitization of the world has long been a part of the creative crowd and with the availability of touch screen laptops today even the most amateur can get a taste of expressing art directing into digital form.

Many people already have laptops that don't have such a sophisticated technology. Maybe we bought our computers a few years back and many of us don't always reach for the top of the line nor did many of us even know such a feature existed.

Whatever the case, if you have a laptop and would like some of the conveniences of a tablet PC, all you need is to add the touch screen feature which is now an available option for approximately $130 thanks to the TabletLaptop by NAVIsis.

The device is very much plug and play with most of the common household Windows operating systems. It works with Windows 2000, XP, XP-Tablet, and Windows Vista. The minimum CPU requirement is Pentium 500MHz or equivalent which I can't imagine anyone using anything less than that, although I should be careful not everyone is as fortunate to be addicted to the latest greatest technological gadgets we don't really need, but I digress. The input is a standard USB 1.1 and you will need an optical disk drive for the CD.

In applications such as Microsoft Outlook, you can compose and send handwritten emails; which is very personal, not to mention cool. That's really all you need to turn your regular laptop into a touch screen computer with all the standard features of a touch screen laptop tablet. You can use your fingers or the included stylus to resize and flip through images, dynamically manage and control presentations and documentation without a mouse.

The only real downside is the physical limitation of the device and the laptop itself that keeps it from truly performing like a tablet laptop. While the company claims it is compact in design, most people would agree that laptops are not truely as portable and mobile as we would like them to be. Any additional add-on just creates more bulk no matter how compact the design is.

Also, true touch screen laptop models have swivel screens that can be folded flat against the backside while your ordinary laptop cannot. Being able to fold flat makes the writing and drawing much more sensible as opposed to a screen that is rather inflexible to the contours of your pen grip.