Netbook with digitizer touch screen appears
We're not quite sure how someone got the idea to make a netbook with a digitizer touch screen, but the proof is in the pudding and we've got pictures of what is likely to be a one of a kind product, despite the popularity of touch screens.
Digitizers are normally found in things like Wacom pads which are used by those that need pen-input on their PC. However, this was also used on early touch screen notebooks and tablet PC's, but never gained much popularity, despite Microsoft developing Windows XP Tablet PC edition that took advantage of the pen-input.

The picture above shows the screen swivelled around 180 degrees and it can the be folded flat on top of the keyboard to create a tablet PC. It has a 10.2-inch display with 1,024x600 resolution, an Atom N270 processor, up to 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard drive, support for 802.11a/b/g WiFi and a memory card reader.

The stylus is tucked away at the rear and there are two buttons on the left hand side of the display that allows you to flip it around to suit how you hold the netbook. The touch screen doesn't work at all without the pen, as it sends a signal indicating its position on the screen.

We could see this end up in a few vertical markets, especially in the case where signatures is needed, as this is something a digitizer display excels on over a finger manipulated touch screen. The battery protrudes out the back which is something we're not keen on, especially on a small netbook like this and it's only a 3-cell unit with a rated battery life of 2-3h which just doesn't cut it in this day in age.


