Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch Review (13.3″)

Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch Review (13.3)

The Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch combines the company’s Series 5 Ultrabook with a touchscreen covered in Corning Gorilla Glass, so you know it’s capable of taking all of your abusive pokes and prods for as long as you’re using it. The reason for the inclusion of a touchscreen is so you could make full use of Windows 8 on the laptop, which is able to recognize up to ten points of contact, meaning each finger will be recognized by the UltraTouch’s touchscreen. But does throwing a touchscreen on a laptop equipped with Windows 8 mean you should spend close to $1000 for it? That’s precisely the point of our review of the Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch. So without further ado, let’s get down to business.

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ViewSonic’s TD2220 two-point touch monitor gets priced at $330, will ship to coincide with Windows 8

ViewSonics new TD2220 twopoint touch monitor get a price and a ship date to coincide with Windows 8

While we had expected ViewSonic’s TD2220 to arrive earlier this year, we’ll forgive its lackadaisical timekeeping just this once. The two-point touch, 1,920 x 1,080 LED display arrives in North and Latin America in the third week of October — around the same time as the similarly digit-friendly Windows 8. When it does, it’ll reduce the contents of your bank balance by $330, but that’s a small price to pay for the privilege of confusing onlookers unused to seeing such technology in action.

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Maingear announces Alpha 24 Super Stock AIO: NVIDIA graphics and Ivy Bridge power for $1,349 and up

Maingear announces Alpha 24 Super Stock AIO 1080p touchscreen and NVIDIA graphics

Maingear is relatively new to the all-in-one space, having released its Solo 21 just this March. Now it’s introducing the Alpha 24 Super Stock, an AIO with a 24-inch, 1080p touchscreen and some solid specs under the hood. Processor choices include a Core i3-3240 chip clocked at 3.4GHz and a Core i7 option (both Ivy Bride, of course), and the AIO is configurable with up to 16GB of SO-DIMM memory. For storage, you’re looking at up to a 3TB hard drive and up to a 256GB SSD. Being a Maingear machine, the Super Stock is all about the graphics: an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 GPU comes standard, but that can be switched out for a GeForce GTX 680 chip. There are also two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors on board for good measure.

Also in line with the company’s DIY mentality, the machine meets Intel’s thin-mini ITX standard for assuring that next-gen components can be swapped in. Rounding out the feature list are an optional CableCARD tuner, an optical drive, HDMI, three USB 2.0 ports and a SD card reader. The Alpha 24 Super Stock will go for $1,349 and up starting today — check out the full press info below the break.

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