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HP has been cranking discover its touch-enabled, all-in-one TouchSmart PCs for eld now, but the stylish help comes with a twist: a 23-inch pass that slides almost all the artefact down, motion the system into something consanguine to a jumbo contact panel.

Slated to go on sale this hebdomad for $900, the TouchSmart 610 runs on Windows 7 and arrives with the stylish edition of HP's TouchSmart individual interface, complete with touch-friendly versions of Hulu, Netflix, Rhapsody, Twitter, and even R.U.S.E., a favourite real-time strategy game.

The revamped TouchSmart UI lets you place images, notes, and another noesis onto a multi-panel, swipeable bag screenâ€"and yes, there's an app accumulation featuring more TouchSmart apps, whatever liberated and others for purchase.

Not bad, but the most arresting feature of the newborn all-in-one TouchSmart system is the pass itself, which you can motion all the artefact downbound to a 60-degree angle. Doing so basically turns the PC into … well, a large contact panel, albeit digit that you can't plunk into your travel while you're lounging on the sofa.

I got a lowercase hands-on time with the TouchSmart 610 during an HP advise circumstance terminal month, and yes, agitated the large pass up and downbound is doable, although the spring-assisted sliding action is a discernment on the formal side.

One of the beauties of the newborn TouchSmart's design is that the concealment slides downbound and out, meaning that the back of the pass won't bang into anything behindhand it on the artefact down. The idea, HP reps told me, was to earmark users to motion the concealment up or downbound without making a bit, desk-rearranging production discover of it.

Of course, a sliding pass is only as beatific as the touch-enabled applications that go with it, and HP clearly hopes that its "suite" of TouchSmart apps will do the trick. I only got a brief discernment of the newborn TouchSmart programme during terminal month's demo, and I likeable what I saw, but whether the TouchSmart App Store manages to verify soured remains to be seen.

The PC manufacturing giant is also actuation a business-oriented edition of the newborn TouchSmart that hotels, retailers, and joint customers could ingest as touch-enabled kiosksâ€"kind of a budget-minded edition of Micorsoft's pricey Surface systems.

Specs for the TouchSmart 610 allow a 3.2GHz Intel i3-550 processor, 4GB of RAM (upgradable to 16GB), a 750GB hard drive, a six-in-one module bill reader, seven USB ports, and HP's enhanced "Beats" audio system.

â€" Ben Patterson is a profession blogger for Yahoo! News.

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