Touch Screen Laptop/Netbook?

I've been in, around and doing electronic designs for a little too long so I agree that a multi-touch premium will add from 100 to 200 to a display. Now some will rail against this but if you want it, get it. Let the market decide in other words.

The great news to me is Windows 7 RC ran well on lesser hardware so overall I think if they can kill that fish on the opening screen they'l have a hit.
Bob

But if you want to get something NOW before PC makers start trying the entire tablet pc touch screen thing again your options are limited.

Lenovo has a Thinkpad X61 (or is it X62?) Tablet PC. HP has a tablet PC that off the top of my head rated fairly well.

HP also has a tabletop PC the "Touchsmart" or something similar that may do a fairly good job of taking advantage of a windows 7 upgrade.

In time I think you will see a lot more touchscreen PC's under 7 and Snow Leopard.

battling for netbook OS bragging rights. They plan to release Chrome OS in the future for netbooks. I'm not sure if touchscreen will be part of Chrome.

I would like to see touch screens in laptop or even monitors. How come we haven't seen this feature yet as a standard? In movies we see hologram screens with touch capacities. Why not see where this goes? Sure we can have the mouse and track pad but you would think it would be more organic to touch the screen. I tried to teach my mom how to use a mouse and intuitively she raised the mouse instead of sliding it. We have touch screens on our smart phones but not laptops? It seems a novelty to the consumers but it might eliminate the touch pad leaving more real estate for the keyboard or perhaps innovate ways to place left and right mouse buttons that can be used in conjunction with touch gestures?