"HP TouchSmart" touchscreen computer

[D.T. Nethery]

I saw a demonstration of animating a walk cycle on the HP Touchsmart computer ---


Has anyone used the HP TouchSmart with TVP ? I'm curious how it compares to working on a Cintiq.
In the demonstration above it looks a little bit "laggy" and doesn't have the familiar Wacom pen buttons and eraser.
(notice in the demo she's using the end of a paintbrush to draw with ... the TouchSmart picks up any movement of any object
touching the screen , so you could draw with your finger if you wanted to , or any object as long as it is not sharp metal which would
scratch the screen) . I can't figure out if HP has an optional pen stylus available for the TouchSmart . However, I think not having a Wacom-style pen
might be difficult to get used to. I looked on the HP Touchsmart forums and found this remark about using a stylus with the HP TouchSmart:

"Note that the TouchSmart screen is not a stylus-type digitizer as found on many tablet PCs or on Wacom tablets. The TouchSmart screen uses infrared cameras and LEDs to detect objects. If your stylus has a long, narrow tip, that produces a smaller shadow for the cameras to detect."

There's a portable model (12" inch screen) and desktop models (22" and 25" inch screen) . If the Desktop version could be mounted on an Ergotron arm
then it could be tilted and rotated like a Cintiq.

http://www.ergotron.com/Products/tabid/ ... fault.aspx

[Hervé]

The big probleme for me, it is not possible to put his hand on the screen.

[D.T. Nethery]

The big probleme for me, it is not possible to put his hand on the screen.

Ah, I think I see what you mean ... it would only be possible to write or draw with the tip of the stylus touching the surface , because if the hand contacts the surface
the hand will also leave an impression on the screen . So we would be restricted to holding the stylus in a certain way to make sure the hand does not rub on the screen.

[Paul Fierlinger]

just watching him paint/draw/erase gave me the creaps like scratching a blackboard with your fingernails. It looked actually painful.

[D.T. Nethery]

just watching him paint/draw/erase gave me the creaps like scratching a blackboard with your fingernails. It looked actually painful.

It does indeed look very slow. That is why I wonder if the lag shown in that video is because of the program being used or if it is the Touchscreen computer that is responsible for the lag.
I wonder how it would be using TVP with this HP Touchsmart computer.

I am curious enough about it that I may try to find a local computer store which sells this computer to ask if they will download trial version of TVP to the HP Touchsmart to let me try it in the store.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Would it not be a hindrance to your drawing abilities that you cannot rest your hand on the surface while you draw? This looks like painting with a long brush while standing a couple feet away from the canvas. I think this is why the process looks so stressed and uncomfortable.

[idragosani]

Yeah, it's like drawing in slow motion or something... it would make me very fidgety!