Topic: Asus Launches Touchscreen Eee Desktop

[sam]

"Asus has launched an Eee-branded 15.6" touchscreen desktop PC as a budget rival to HP's TouchSmart. Available for pre-order now on Play.com for £399.99 ($749), it shares much of the same specification as the Eee PC, but with a larger 160-GB hard disk. Interestingly, it's listed as coming with XP installed, so we'd guess Asus will be using some sort of proprietary touchscreen interface — yet the image on the site clearly shows Linux on the screen, which may be a better bet for an easy-to-use touch system."

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/14/1925238&from=rss

[Simon]

Why would Linux be easier than XP to use touchscreen with?

[sam]

well I guess they are arguing that the "easy" interface is easier with touchscreen than the normal "windows like desktop" - but that should also include gnome and kde