Yesterday, I was invited along with other bloggers to attend the preview event of the new HP TouchSmart PC at Brotzeit restaurant (which I highly recommend for the Munich Lager beer and the pork knuckles) in Vivocity. The product was unveiled more than a month ago in Germany and Van Tan did an interesting report about this event when she was in Germany for the event. The official release date of this new gadget is on 18 July 2008. Other than getting my hands to try a touch screen PC, one of my other tasks is to do a special Geek Goddess episode on the product itself together with Estee, Peter and Michael. It is interesting that more and more companies like HP are now also competing in making the desktop not just being a computer but how the design of the product can fit it with the home. Updated with the videos for the event through the Geek Goddess Show.
Coming back to the event, the bloggers were first greeted by Hwee Koon (Director for Consumer PC & Handheld Business Units, HP, Asia Pacific and Japan). She gave us a short presentation on the product and the emphasis is on the design of the product and how it came about. After that, four TouchSmart PCs were unveiled within the restaurant and the HP team were around to demo the interesting features about the product. From first impressions, the sleek black piano design made it look like a big photo frame in the house. Of without fail like all reviews, I have to spill the technical specs about the product. The HP TouchSmart PC is an integrated 22" diagonal hi-def widescreen with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Microsoft Vista as the operating system. The DVD drive is located at the side of the PC and comes with the standard peripherals such as the USB ports and the wireless LAN.
Most of the excitement about the product is the management of rich media in the system. Of course, the computer comes with a pretty good photo management system. Melvin Yuan asked me for the memory card from my camera, and immediately transferred the pictures from my camera quickly into the PC. The process is seamless without any hiccups to my surprise, given that I have sworn off Microsoft operating system for the longest time. You can make edits quickly on the photos without much problems. I did observe that Peter was spending time playing games with the HP TouchSmart using the touchscreen interface, after he has completed his interview with one of the members in the event.
Of course, most of the time for this event, other than listening to the presentation on this new product, Michael and I were busy preparing both the interviews for Peter and Estee. Estee did the starting introduction with Hwee Koon and also asked her about the design, the price and when it would be launched while Peter focussed on the technical side: features and interface of the TouchSmart PC. Of course, we usually round up with the two hosts to conclude the show for us and their thoughts about the HP TouchSmart PC. After we completed the filming for the show, we spent time mingle around with a lot of our friends who are also there to look at the product.
But, stay tuned for the coming episode of the Geek Goddess Show.
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[1] Photos for the event on my Flickr Account which you can view.
The Geek Goddess Show Episode 5 and 6 for the Event
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