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12 January 2007, 15:18
Computer HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC. Windows Vista™ operating system.
This year may well just herald the rise of the touch screen. We've seen previous attempts at integrating a touch screen in an all in one PC, notably from Pelham Sloane and MPC, but those systems were more suited to dedicated duties like home automation, store kiosks, or receptionist terminals.
 Stay in touch with technology and keep your family connected and organized with the HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC. Simply touch the screen to get instant access to family schedules, TV, music, movies, photos and information on your PC. It’s a perfect fit for the social hub of your home and is easy enough for the whole family to use. Personalize the HP TouchSmart PC to get quick access to your favorite applications. Manage your family’s schedule by updating calendar events and creating your choice of voice, written or typed messages. The fresh, space-saving all-in-one design will look great in any décor.
OrganizationForget sticky notes, messages stuck to the fridge and the wall calendar everybody forgets to check. Organize your life and stay on schedule with programs and special features designed to enhance your PC experience and your lifestyle.
• Enjoy one-touch access to your customizable HP SmartCenter home page of quick links and favorite applications.
• Quickly and easily maintain your family’s schedule, manage events, leave personal written messages and even view your calendar remotely thanks to HP SmartCalendar.
• Upload, manage, edit and print your digital memories with HP Photosmart Touch. An integrated printer station with convenient ports lets you add a compatible HP Photosmart portable printer for on-the-spot photo printing.
 The IQ770 follows the more HP standard dark color scheme, and has a slot below the screen (more on that later). Unlike the Sony Vaio VGC-LS1 and iMac, the IQ770 isn't all built into the screen, but in this case that's not a major drawback.
EntertainmentYour one-touch entertainment options are endless. Watch movies or use the integrated personal video recorder to play, pause, rewind and record live TV. Listen to digital music or the radio on high-performance speakers. Adjust the display’s height and angle for comfortable viewing of digital photos or Web surfing and enjoy it all on your 19" diagonal widescreen BrightView LCD.
 Those LIVE! enhancements (like those of Intel's Viiv) still aren't fully realized yet, but at least they are there. The 2GB of DDR2 RAM and 320GB of hard drive space give you a lot of space to play with, which a big plus now that the system is running the Microsoft Windows Vista Premium OS.
DesignSleek, stylish, space saving, clutter free—the HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC will help you organize your life and shine as the centerpiece of your digital lifestyle. The touch-enabled display is integrated with the PC base, while the wireless keyboard and mouse move freely about. Install an HP Photosmart portable photo printer in the printer station for great prints. Minimize cable clutter with Wireless LAN and Bluetooth® opportunities.
Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Home PremiumYou’ll be ready to start a new era in computing comfort and confidence with the Windows Vista™ operating system. Enjoy innovations in security, reliability and organization and search. Take in the full Windows Vista™ Home Premium experience, including the new intuitive tools of the Windows Aero™ user interface and the impressive graphics from Flip 3D. Your personal computing is more manageable and visually appealing with Vista ™
 The HP PhotoSmart Touch app basically turns your PC into a digital photo print station, kind of like the one you see at your local drug store. Put a HP PhotoSmart a510 or a610 compact printer behind the screen, and the photos slide out of the slot under the screen. Very cool stuff. (You can use any other photo printer with the IQ770, but larger printers like the Epson PictureMate won't fit behind the screen, and thus won't spit their photos though the handy-dandy slot.)
Key features
• AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-52
• 2048MB DDR2 SDRAM system memory
• 320GB hard drive
• Slot-loading SuperMulti DVD burner2 with LightScribe technology
• Touch enabled 19" diagonal widescreen BrightView LCD
• NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics card with 256MB dedicated video memory (Up to 528MB Total Available Graphics memory as allocated by Windows Vista™.)
• Integrated 1.3-megapixel HP WebCam with built-in array microphone
• HP SmartCenter Button to launch interactive mode with one touch
• NTSC TV tuner and over-the-air ATSC high-definition television tuner
• Wireless keyboard and mouse, stylus, and Media Center Remote Control
• 24 x 7 toll-free phone support and 1-year HP limited warranty HP Advisor gives you a quick health check of your PC, and lets you access HP's online help and troubleshooting features. Last but not least, HP's SmartCalendar can replace the corkboard you use as a message center in your kitchen: pluses include the ability to leave voice messages, but the electronic post it notes on the computer still require more steps than a physical paper one.
 The "base" of the system holds a snazzy multi-card reader for your digital cameras' data cards, a slot-mounted DVD drive with physical playback controls (a big plus, you don't need the remote to play a DVD or CD), inputs for Cable/Antenna, an ASTC/HDTV antenna. and FM radio antenna, USB, digital audio out, and connectors for your camcorder (both analog S-Video and digital FireWire). With all these connectors, I forgive HP for not building everything into the screen.
 Speaking of the screen, the 19-inch widescreen (1,440 by 900 resolution) is crisp and clear with both 480p DVD and 720p HD WMV, TV, and DiVX content, but the lack of a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray optical drive is a drawback. Hopefully, later this year when HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo drives become commonplace, the next version of the TouchSmart PC will have one. CableCard is another glaring omission, but hopefully the IQ770 will be able to interface with an external USB or FireWire reader. One final design note: HP integrated the MCE remote's IR sensor into the front bezel of the IQ770. This is just where the sensor should be on a tabletop all in one PC. Using an external IR receiver on an all in one desktop is just dumb. Yay, HP!
We weren't able to benchmark test the IQ770 with Windows Vista in time for this preview, but stay tuned, I hope to do so in the next few weeks and give the IQ770 a final report and score.
Is the HP TouchSmart IQ770 an iMac killer? In a word: maybe. In its current incarnation the IQ770 certainly outclasses the current Windows-based Editors' Choice the Sony Vaio VGC-LS1. I am going to hold my final judgement on the IQ770 until we put it up against other Vista-based PCs, but so far I like what I see.
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See also:
Dell XPS 710 H2C with "Black Ice".Vega super notebook tops out at over $7,000.Apple is working on a 12-inch ultra thin MacBook Pro.Tyan launches Typhoon 600 Series Personal Supercomputer.
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