"After some searching I found this to be the lowest cost tablet pc. The tablet was just something I was interested in playing with but not required for my use. I went right to Windows 7 and after some driver updates the multi touch interface works as expected and the rest of the machine seems to run well for some development work and office suite use.
As a portable it is heavy, hot and loud. The fan is probably the loudest I've had on a notebook and it rages up and down constantly. Very distracting while working and probably more so if brought into a meeting. I find the volume of noise from this computer to be it's primary fault by far. I don't think I would recommend this to anyone without explaining the significance of the fan noise.
The overall performance is good, and better than anything I currently have so I am happy with that. I'm sure for the some money I could have gotten a non-table that was light, warm and quiet. oh well. "

    "We're unabashed fans of HP's Touch-Smart desktop machines, so we were really looking forward to getting our digits on the new technology in a convertible touch-screen notebook PC. But our eager anticipation only made the reality of the TouchSmart tx2 all that more disappointing.

This is the first convertible touch-screen PC designed for the consumer market, and its underlying hardware--which in our review unit included AMD's best mobile CPU--delivered enough horsepower for this machine's touch-screen elements. Benchmark performance, on the other hand, was dismal (more on that later).

You can use the TouchSmart tx2 as a conventional notebook PC or rotate its 12.1-inch screen 180 degrees, lay it flat, and use the machine's tablet functionality. The 1280x800 touch screen uses active digitizing technology and supports the use of either a fingertip or a digital pen (as opposed to the simple stylus that HP shipped with its first-generation TouchSmart desktops). The digital pen delivers hover feedback (it doesn't have to touch the screen to activate user-interface elements, such as tooltips) and considerably more precision than a fingertip.

The pen is particularly useful for drawing diagrams and jotting notes, and HP's handwriting-recognition software is nothing short of excellent. It had no problem recognizing even our sloppiest handwriting as fast as we could scribble. The vaunted multitouch feature--which lets you manipulate objects and certain aspects of the user interface--is really only useful with HP's very basic MediaSmart applications.

That could change once Windows 7 hits the market, since the new OS is slated to offer native support for multitouch screens. (This machine came with the 64-bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium).

If you don't have a work surface and don't need to type, you can put the machine in tablet mode and cradle it in one arm. But we found that our elbow and shoulder could tolerate this position for only about 20 minutes because the TouchSmart tx2 is so heavy for its size: five pounds, one ounce (with the optional eight-cell battery). Adding the power supply brings the weight up to five pounds, 13 ounces. Replacing the optical drive with the plastic "weightsaver" shell sheds five ounces, but renders the machine much less useful.

As you can see in the chart below, the TouchSmart tx2 is abysmally slow with hardcore applications. And while the machine was nearly silent when idle or playing a movie, it sounded like a hair dryer when given a heavy load. The battery delivered two hours and 51 seconds--long enough to watch both Boogie Nights and its supplemental disc--using HP's recommended settings (which balance battery life with performance).

We made many allowances for the performance of HP's touch-screen desktops, with the caveat that they shouldn't be a Maximum PC reader's only computer. We can't do the same for a notebook. And while we can ignore the TouchSmart tx2's crappy gaming performance--no one buys an ultra portable to play games--we can't ignore this machine's other shortcomings and high price tag. "

    "I replaced my Fujitsu U820 with this machine. This machine is great the screen is the perfect tablet size. The action feels snappy. The startup and shutdown times are quick. It's actually a useable tablet. I've owned five other tablet PC's from Acer to Sony and this one is the best so far. It's about a pond heavier than I would like and the battery should last about an hour longer but overall it's great. Oh, it should have Bluetooth built in but I got a cheap small usb dongle and it works fine.
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    "I needed three new tablet pc's for our office a month ago... I bought three of these. REALLY long story short, one of the video adapters went bad, the whole screen turned red then had a red hue.. The other two have had their share of problems, networking flaking out, mic's and voice recording wonky.. all this and more within a month!
I have over 50 pc's to take care of, I've never had so many problems with tablets.. Granted, most tablets I buy are twice the cost of these..You get what you pay for I guess.

AND forget about HP support.. I was happy when I called the first time, and the tech wasn't from India (no offense to anyone in India, (including the Amazon return girl whom I love) but sometimes computer problems are hard enough to deal with, then toss on two people who can't understand each other and it gets worse), but then you realize the HP support people are lazy, ignorant... there's no way they are supervised, and they must be outsourced!!! I'd rather get support from someone I couldn't understand and was willing to work on a problem than these meatheads! (except for one girl... she was fantastic!!) But I called at least 5 times since I've had these, and got only one polite, knowledgeable tech! (This is a testamony in itself.. I'm a tech for a living.. I NEVER call support, these pc's are just such a POS)
The good news is Amazon will take them all back! AND they pay for the shipping!!
I may hate HP after this, but I love Amazon!
I'll be sticking with Lenovo tablets.. They may be 1800, but I don't have 10% of the issues with these HP's! If only Amazon would get them back in stock! "

    "I wanted a laptop that would replace my four year old 17 inch Gateway. I liked my old laptop but wanted something smaller. I looked at netbooks but they didn't have enough power for my needs. I like an occasional game or two. I went to a computer store and played with their laptops for a while and liked the HP Touchsmart. The model that they had displayed was one with a 320 Gig hard drive and it had a 12.1 inch screen anp only weighed a little more than four pounds. It also was a tablet PC which was intriguing with 4 gigs of memory. The feature that I found desirable was the touchscreen. It fascinated me and made on screen selections so much easier. It also came with a remote and a stylus.I tried it and I liked it.

So when I arrived home I checked Amazon.com and HP's website. I discovered that there was a model of the TouchSmart with 500 gigs of storage. I was sold. Hp offered a lower price but Amazon had a dollar rebate which brought the cost below what Hp offered. They both offered free shipping. I purchased from Amazon and received my new laptop in two days. I am very satisfied with its performance. "