Is windows 7 really a pain for touchscreens ?

I know Android is the best platform for touchscreens but the programs I use only run under windows so I need to buy a laptop with touchscreens running windows .

Is the experience really unreliable ?

What are the most common experienced problems ?

 

As far as I know and have tried, windows 7 runs just fine with a touch screen. We got one at work, and you can paint around in Photoshop and stuff, if you really want to, its not SUPER precise, but as for clicking on an interface it works just fine.

 

I have a Fujitsu T730 dual digitizer tablet PC and find W7 to be very enjoyable and functional with the touch experience. Sure it isn't designed to be used exclusively with a finger like the android or ipad, but touch is very well done in W7. Just make sure to increase the DPI up to 125% in the display settings to make the icons a little bigger and easier to select.

My biggest problem is other programs like Chrome, which do not scale up to 125% DPI, so you're left with itty-bitty buttons almost impossible to select with a finger.

 

I run win 7 on a toughbook laptop, an Iconia W tablet and a fancy wacom digitizer screen ... I love it for what I do, as said some apps dont scale worth a darn and I needed to do a registry hack to make my scroll bars wider but as far as a desktop OS goes its the best I have ever used.

It may depend on what you run it on as well. not all equipment is equal

 

i had a test at a computer shop and a touchscreen worked great with win 7

 

I'm still a stylus person. If all I had to do was read and browse, sure it could be a pain. Unfortunately, data input(ie "actual work and effort") is required for what I do.

 

Windows 7 works pretty well with touchscreen, especially if it is penabled.

Writing with the stylus is very easy except my windows is tuned to understand finnish so writing in english makes this more challenging. Think writing or typing with t9 and autocorrect enabled. l have done written notes with Onenote, it is an absolute must for anyone having a stylus in hand.

l am keeping an eye out for finger-based touchscreen laptop also, perhaps old HP tx series for really cheap. This message is wholly hand-written and l think it took an hour to write while watching Tv.

 

works rather well with touchscreens. and android is far away from being the best os for touchscreens btw. i find it to be one of the worst.

best is to try it out, if you can. problem is, not the os is the issue, but the apps. will they work with touchscreen or not? i have some music apps that don't work with touch at all, for example. best to get your stuff all tested before investing.

 

If you're happy with a stylus and you like really heavy, low battery life tablets that blow hot air, go for it.

It's not that Windows doesn't work with a touchscreen, it's just that Windows doesn't work very well with a touchscreen. It's a bad experience.

Personally, I'm not an Android fan, and I don't see a single viable alternative to the iPad, at least not until this fall, or perhaps early 2012.

 

I use Windows 7 touchscreen tablets everyday, my personal machine is a Toshiba Libretto Dual Touchscreen machine and my work machine is the HP Slate 500 (Dual-Touch with N-trig Active Digitizer and 4 Point Multi-touch). Each works well without issue.

The biggest issue is that OEM do not set themes that even make Windows even more touch friendly, it take a couple of tweaks...

 

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Wow. Two very rare devices. I can still remember when HP bragged about the sales success of the Slate. The Slate sold out due to high demand. Yup, HP sold all 5,000 of the initial run and upped production to 7,500. Meanwhile, Apple sold 7,500,000+ iPads. I'm amazed that the Libretto is even sold in North America, where strange and quirky Japanese homemarket electronics never seem to sell very well. Oh, well, I guess it's just Toshibas way of trying to jump on the iPad bandwagon.....

Don't get me wrong, I'm fascinated by rare, expensive and clunky Windows 7 tablets. I might have even bought one on clearance, although no company is unrealistic enough to produce them in anything but tiny volumes, there's no need to hold a clearance sale.

I mean seriously, imagine the fallout if HP had been silly enough to produce 1 million Slate tablets and distribute them all of the major retailers? I'm guessing there would have been a good 990,000+ Slate tablets left in inventory, and lots of great deals in the resulting clearance sales. Now that would have been embarrassing......kinda like buying Palm for $1.2 billion just to get WebOS and launching the Touchpad. Wooops.

I think that's precisely what Microsoft is hoping to do with Windows 8.

Seriously, the problem isn't that Windows 7 can't be used with a touchscreen interface, it's that it isn't an optimal experience.

Unless a person has a specific and compelling professional need for a Windows 7 Tablet PC, the devices are to be avoided.

That's not to say that there hasn't been a very, very small business market for the HP Slate. After all Motion Computing is still in business

 

WOW...what a condescending response...

According to this to this survey on page 8 the HP Slate has 9% of the Tablet Market which would be around 2.5 Million:

Online Publishers Association

You have a very narrow view of what a Tablet is good for, I personally having been using Tablets since 2003 and I much prefer a full Windows 7 Slate over a large phone that tries to act like like a full computer.

I have the best of all worlds with my HP Slate, 90% of the time I'm using the slate as a slate, and I'm able to dock and use a keyboard and mouse when neccesary.

My slate is 1.5 lbs and my Libretto is less then 2.5 lbs. I can carry both and they would weigh less than my old Lenovo X200T. I'm only carrying my Slate this week for a business conference and vacation and it is awesome...

 

Where are the 2.5 million Slates? Proof?

Rest assured, there aren't millions of Slates but at best thousands, or should I say tens of thousands if you consider cumulative production totals. As products go, this is a tiny niche play, and I doubt that even a niche player like Motion Computing is scared of HP's Slate.

Well, HP also has the Zeen, which acts as the control panel on all-in-one printers. Not many people have heard about that one, and I never quite figured out why a printer needed a detachable tablet, but I guess HP wanted to sell ink. There's a lot of money in ink. Not so much in PC Tablets, or in any tablet other than the iPad, at least so far.

Yes, I've been aware of Windows Tablets since the beginning of the 2000s. I knew they existed. I knew someone out there must use them. The problem was that sales were so miniscule as to be inconsequential on the retail level.

Okay, but you're comparing two Windows Tablets to a Windows Notebook with a touchscreen and a Rube Goldberg screen hinge?

 

Don't feed the troll.