{"id":13217,"date":"2012-07-29T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13217"},"modified":"2012-07-29T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T12:30:37","slug":"logitech-touchpad-with-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13217","title":{"rendered":"Logitech Touchpad with Windows 8?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 8 was designed to be touch first but you can use it with a keyboard and a mouse.  I do that with my work laptop, the beast, which I use to run Windows 8 Client Hyper-V for deployment demos because it has SSD storage.  But what if you want that touch experience?  Some apps, certainly games (Cut the Rope, Angry Birds) work best with a touch UI.  You could go out and buy a replacement monitor for you PC.  You could replace your laptop.  Or you could go the Apple route and copy what they did for the Mac a while back when they introduced the pricey track pad.<\/p>\n

I was just in the store picking up a new keyboard and mouse for some writing work (the real thing always beats a laptop keyboard\/pad) and I saw something interesting on a display stand:<\/p>\n

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This is the Logitech Wireless Touchpad with Multitouch, coming in at $32.57 on Amazon.com<\/a>.  It supports single, double, triple and quad touch as well as swipe.  Locally it was \u20ac49.99 in a brick store.  I very nearly picked one up but I was concerned that it might not be a great Windows 8 device; I\u2019ve seen some people having Synaptic driver issues on forums with gesture support on their laptops.  I did a quick search on my iPhone but found nothing conclusive so I left it there.<\/p>\n

I returned home but didn\u2019t forget it.  I did some more searching and found one very happy reviewer<\/a>.  Maybe I\u2019ll get one for the work PC which I\u2019m very likely to upgrade as soon as possible after RTM.<\/p>\n

That reminds me.  I love to see what\u2019s happening in the PC world, especially to the all-in-ones.  If I was buying a personal PC then that\u2019s the type I\u2019d want for Windows 8.  I saw a very sexy looking Lenovo IdeaCenter A720<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It is around $1700 in the USA and \u20ac1200 here.  It features a 27 inch 1920×1080 anti-glare 10-touch point screen with a flush bezel.  The spec is i7 (3rd generation), 8 GB RAM, 2 GB NVIDIA GPU.  It was a work of art in my opinion; I\u2019d be happy for it to be placed in my sitting room.<\/p>\n

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Windows 8 was designed to be touch first but you can use it with a keyboard and a mouse.  I do that with my work laptop, the beast, which I use to run Windows 8 Client Hyper-V for deployment demos because it has SSD storage.  But what if you want that touch experience?  Some apps, … Continue reading “Logitech Touchpad with Windows 8?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[180,109],"class_list":["post-13217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hardware","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t