Guide For: HP TouchSmart IQ770

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We first spotted the new HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC concept at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. Touted as the perfect companion to your home’s kitchen or office, the HP TouchSmart IQ770 features an innovative touch screen display that you can use either with your finger, or the included stylus. When compared to other systems from a pure design perspective, the HP TouchSmart IQ770 definitely screams PC rather than art, the Sony VAIO W series or Apple iMac are both much better looking systems. HP doesn’t even try to hide the DVD drive or media card reader, and there are more stickers on the system than a Volkswagen Vanagon at Woodstock. However, to most people the piano black finish is a good enough reason to give the system prominent placement in the home. The keyboard and mouse are both minimalistic enough to be left out in the open as well. Upon inspection you will notice that the keyboard lacks any sort of riser prongs and slopes downward towards the top of the keyboard. The mouse has an attractive, yet rugged look and feel to it. Both the keyboard and mouse lack any sort of media keys short of a volume control, leaving those functions to the remote control. It would have been smart to at least include some programmable shortcut media keys on the keyboard. As it stands, you must basically have all three peripherals nearby for any sort of use from a distance.

HP TouchSmart - Built around an AMD Turion X2 TL-52 mobile processor, the IQ770 comes with 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 256MB graphics adapter, slot loading lightscribe DVD writer, and 19” LCD display. What we think really makes this system stand out though is the integrated pocket media bay so you can add even more storage space, the 1.3 megapixel camera, coaxial digital out and the integrated NTSC and ATSC TV tuners. Other features include integrated 802.11 a/b/g WiFi, 5.1 audio out, FireWire and 4 USB inputs, and an 8-in-1 media card reader. Video inputs for both the ATSC (HDTV) and NTSC tuners are on the side of the system, and can look rather cluttered with all of the cables connected to it. The TouchSmart IQ770 really includes just about every bell and whistle we could think of, short of a next generation DVD player.

Last, but not least, you have the touch enabled 19” LCD display with a 16:10 aspect ratio. Either way you look at it, the touch screen really is the crown jewel of the whole system. You can decide not to use it, and lower the screen font size to a setting that you choose, but we recommend making the best of it and using the touch screen to its full potential. The LCD screen is attached to the rest of the system, but still retains a minimal neck that allows you to tilt and adjust its height, although it cannot swivel.

HP TouchSmart -Software preinstalled on the TouchSmart IQ770 includes Microsoft Vista Home Premium Edition, HP’s SmartCenter and Calendar system, Roxio Creator for burning and archiving data, muvee autoProducer for creating home videos on DVD (Microsoft Windows Vista also has this feature built-in), Microsoft Works 8, Adobe Reader 7.0, Norton Internet Security 2006 (60-day trial), and preinstalled ISP services such as AOL and EarthLink. The TouchSmart IQ770 comes with a one-year parts and labor warranty on the hardware, and a 90 day warranty on the software.

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