New touchscreen for 17" PowerBook due in Nov.
updated 12:50 pm EDT, Thu October 14, 2004
Touchscreen for 17\" PB
pSeries17 touchscreen enhancement for Apple's 17" PowerBook will be available world-wide beginning November 15, 2004 for €500. The new TouchSTAR pSeries17, first shown at the Apple Expo in Paris, is the first in the new line of TouchSTAR products for Apple's portable and desktop LCD displays. TouchSTAR products allow Apple users to easily add or remove touchscreen functionality to their displays without system modification using a patent-pending slipcover design. The TouchSTAR frames are made of durable aluminium that matches Apple's designs.
"Simply slip the TouchSTAR system over your screen, install the drivers, and plug in the USB cable; your Apple display is touch enabled. Drivers and calibration tools are provided for both Mac OS X Jaguar and Panther."
The TouchSTAR pSeries17 for PowerBooks is the first in the pSeries that will include TouchSTAR pSeries12 and pSeries15 for the Apple 12" and 15" PowerBooks respectively. Those will ship by the first quarter in 2005. The cSeries for Cinema displays, the iSeries for iBooks and the mSeries for the G5 iMacs will follow.
Touchscreens emulate a mouse's click, double-click and drag to provide the most intuitive desktop navigation. They use the latest pressure sensitive, resistive technology to provide 4,096 by 4,096 points of touch resolution and are tested to over 10 million touches for durability. The new calibration utility provides 7 points of calibration for superior accuracy to the edges of the screen. All new TouchSTAR systems can be secured to the host system using generally available Kensington security cables.
