Fujitsu LifeBook T5010 — Another Tablet With Multi-Touch
It must be multi-touch week in the notebook world as another new one hits the street. Fujitsu has launched the LifeBook T5010, a convertible Tablet PC with a multi-touch screen. This must be a record — it’s been ages since there have been two Tablet PCs announced at the same time. The T5010 doesn’t have sophisticated multi-touch like the Lenovo x200, it only senses two finger touches at the same time, while the x200 can sense four. That’s just nitpicking, however, as the T5010 is also a full Tablet PC like the x200.
The 13.3-inch Tablet PC is available with Windows Vista until October 22, after which it can be outfitted with Windows 7. It’s not cheap, starting at $1,759, but multi-touch Tablet PCs are never cheap. It is definitely looking like Tablet PC makers have been waiting for Windows 7 to get closer to release to get these dual digitizer-equipped devices out the door.
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Well, I hope the HP 2730P gets a much needed refresher with multi-touch (heck, I would settle for just touch), now that Lenovo and Fujitsu have joined the ranks.
This Fujitsu is freakin’ 4.5 pounds (in “weight-saver configuration” — whatever that means). Why can’t the tablets be lighter? Does the hinge really weight a pound or two?? My Lenovo X60 is about as heavy as I’d ever want to hold for long periods…..
Agreed, that’s way too heavy to lug around. They could start by losing that optical drive.
I’m just holding my breath for Clarksfield releases – since the new processors were ALSO scheduled for next month, we in theory should be getting both Windows 7 and updated CPU/chipset at the same time shortly…
According to the Lenovo guy in the video on Gottabemobile, the X200 can only support 2 fingers while the T400 can support 4. http://www.gottabemobile.com/2009/09/15/lenovo-tablet-pc-multi-touch-on-video/%20#more-18183 about 30 seconds in on the first video.
I wish they’d just keep in consistent so software designers can build for one thing.
the x200 can only sense two fingers as well
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/special-offers.workflow:ShowPromo?LandingPage=/All/US/Landing_pages/ThinkPad_notebooks/2009/X200tablet_T400s
t400s is the one that can sense four
Seems like maybe N-trig’s final Win7 drivers are limiting things to 2-point multitouch because of the pen. The beta drivers supported up to 5 finger multitouch on the XT and XT2, and worked great for touch but the pen was really iffy. The final drivers were released for the XT2 (but not yet for the XT) and limit to 2-point multitouch, but the pen apparently is working a ton better now.
Just a tip, the x200 is Wacom multi-touch and pen. The t400s is N-trig multi-touch (without the pen). There are various, mostly boring marketing reasons, why N-trig is doing the 4 fingers is better than 2 bit, but that’s competition…
and to add the rest, the Fujitsu tablets are all using Wacom multi-touch (and pen of course)…