Touchscreen Netbooks To Shine At CES 2009

i4u writes "The new generation of netbooks debuting at CES 2009 will add touch and have twistable screens to use them in tablet or notebook style. Intel is set to introduce a new Classmate netbook with a twistable screen and touchscreen at the CES 2009. Back in October Asus said it was planning to introduce touchscreen Asus Eee netbooks in early 2009. Asus is exhibiting at the CES Unveiled pre-show that takes place on January 6th. Expect the Asus Eee Touch to be unveiled then. Gigabyte has outrun all of them with the Intel Atom-powered M912V that has been on the market for a while. Adding a touchscreen is rather easy. More difficult is to offer a touch-optimized UI. Let's see what the netbook vendors are going to invest on the software side."

Who actually wants that?

[dvh.tosomja]

I want longer battery life, smaler dimensions (just thiner will be enough), and fixed ergo-electro-mechanical bugs.

Re:Touchscreens

[omar.sahal]

The proof is in the actual usage.

The above is true, you use your hands all the time to write play instruments etc. If these things are designed correctly then I don't see a problem, they have

twistable screens to use them in tablet.. style

Return to Flybook?

[wikinerd]

In short, they re-invented the Flybook [flybook.com].

Fujitsu

[Culture20]

Fujitsu's had a mini-notebook with a tablet twist-touchscreen for more than a year now.

Re:Fujitsu

[t0y]

Cool stuff, but not in the same price range as netbooks.

Re:Return to Flybook?

[Paradigm_Complex]

One of the main selling points for "netbooks" is the price, usually around US$400-600. Flybooks are about five times that price.