Hands-on with Asus Top touchscreen PC

By Digital Trends Staff Published October 25, 2009

At long last, we have “touched” the new Asus Top ET1602, a touchscreen device that could help pave the way for a future of mouseless computting. The device, which only supports single-touch and not multi-touch ala the Apple iPhone, will be worth the wait when it ships sometimes in the new few weeks.

We were a bit incredulous since the PC uses Windows XP, has a small 15.6-inch screen, and a pokey Intel Atom N270 CPU. Yet, the touch device responded quickly to each finger touch.

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The PC comes in white or black, has cool icons for touching up photos, sports Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11n, has a 160GB hard disk, and weighs just 4.3kg. we were impressed by how easy it is to use compared to the trendy but too-small EEE laptop.

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