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HP has brought a multi-touch enabled laptop to the fray. The 12.1-inch TouchSmart tx2 notebook sports a capacitive touchscreen enabling the user to perform gestures like pinch, rotate, arc, flick, press and drag and single and double tap. The notebook also comes with a rechargeable digital ink pen.

Tx2 runs Windows Vista with a base configuration of 2.1GHz AMD Turion processor, ATI Radeon HD 3200 GPU, 3GB RAM and 250GB HDD. It also has a webcam, Wi-Fi, Altec Lansing speakers and an 8X DVD burner. Pricing for the laptop starts from $1150 and goes up to $2270 that includes a 2.4GHz AMD Turion, 8GB RAM, 400GB hard drive and a LightScribe DVD burner.

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