How to Turn Your Mouse Netbook Into Touch Screen

With prices of touch screens going down, it is no wonder that there are now touch screen products that make it possible for you to turn your point-and-click netbook into a touch screen one.

If you have time on your hands and 0 to spare, it would be very easy to do this. The very most recent in this kind of stock is TouchKit, which is manufactured by the Taiwan-based Hoda Technology. The TouchKit allows you to add an interactive touch screen overlay to the Lcds of favorite netbooks like the Asus Eee Pc 900/901 series and Acer Aspire One, Msi Wind U100 and the Asus Eee Pc 1000 family.

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Installing may seem difficult at first. First you have to take off the screws around the netbook's Lcd housing and the bottom of its chassis. Then you pop off the keyboard and take off the housing below the keyboard. Then you need to find the double-sided tape in the touch screen kit, and put it around the Lcd to hold the touch panel in place. Then you have to separate the Lcd module from the housing, and separate the Webcam's cabling harness so you can replace it with the touch screen harness to connect to the motherboard.

Although there is no soldering involved, there are many steps before you get to the point where you can use your netbook as a touch screen, and you progressively expose your netbook's innards in the process.

Thus far, TouchKit seems to be the only touch screen conversion stock ready in the market today. Properly installed, you will have an analog touch screen with a 4096x4096 resolution. The response time is said to be less than 10ms.

The Advantages Of Touch Screen

The main advantage of touch screen is that you can cope practically all your netbook tasks solely with your hand. Otherwise you would need a mouse or your touchpad. It basically makes things easier for you as a netbook user. Touch screen is very useful for tapping choices in dialog boxes, like in the case of many selection surveys.

Having touch screen netbook will also impress your friends, although you in effect should be more involved on how installing a touch screen could void your netbook's warranty.

Among the many netbook's ready in the market today, there are only a few models that have touch screen. Two of these are Intel's Classmate and Gigabyte's M912V. Both models have a swivel touch screen, thus manufacture them easier to handle.

How to Turn Your Mouse Netbook Into Touch Screen

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