{"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":"<p>Windows 8 was designed to be touch first but you can use it with a keyboard and a mouse.&#160; 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.&#160; But what if you want that touch experience?&#160; Some apps, certainly games (Cut the Rope, Angry Birds) work best with a touch UI.&#160; You could go out and buy a replacement monitor for you PC.&#160; You could replace your laptop.&#160; 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<p>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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Wireless-Touch-Logitech-910-002345\/dp\/B007J9H6RK%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB007J9H6RK\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/image40.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the Logitech Wireless Touchpad with Multitouch, coming in at $32.57 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Wireless-Touch-Logitech-910-002345\/dp\/B007J9H6RK%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB007J9H6RK\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a>.&#160; It supports single, double, triple and quad touch as well as swipe.&#160; Locally it was \u20ac49.99 in a brick store.&#160; 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.&#160; I did a quick search on my iPhone but found nothing conclusive so I left it there.<\/p>\n<p>I returned home but didn\u2019t forget it.&#160; I did some more searching and found one very happy <a href=\"http:\/\/njnnetwork.com\/2012\/03\/first-look-logitech-wireless-touchpad\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviewer<\/a>.&#160; Maybe I\u2019ll get one for the work PC which I\u2019m very likely to upgrade as soon as possible after RTM.<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me.&#160; I love to see what\u2019s happening in the PC world, especially to the all-in-ones.&#160; If I was buying a personal PC then that\u2019s the type I\u2019d want for Windows 8.&#160; I saw a very sexy looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lenovo-IdeaCentre-25642FU-27-Inch-Aluminum\/dp\/B0082PRZSA%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0082PRZSA\" target=\"_blank\">Lenovo IdeaCenter A720<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lenovo-IdeaCentre-25642FU-27-Inch-Aluminum\/dp\/B0082PRZSA%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0082PRZSA\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"IdeaCentre A720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lenovo.com\/shop\/americas\/content\/img_lib\/misc\/A720_470x415.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is around $1700 in the USA and \u20ac1200 here.&#160; It features a 27 inch 1920&#215;1080 anti-glare 10-touch point screen with a flush bezel.&#160; The spec is i7 (3rd generation), 8 GB RAM, 2 GB NVIDIA GPU.&#160; It was a work of art in my opinion; I\u2019d be happy for it to be placed in my sitting room.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:02f1812f-72e6-4f43-89e1-6e24b4bad57f\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hardware\" rel=\"tag\">Hardware<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 was designed to be touch first but you can use it with a keyboard and a mouse.&#160; 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.&#160; But what if you want that touch experience?&#160; Some apps, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Logitech Touchpad with Windows 8?&#8221;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}