From: Apostolos Koutropoulos (der_admiral_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Apr 21 2005 - 06:24:05 PDT
The Windows XP Tablet edition does not use touch sensitive screens to input
data/use the stylus.
The screen has sort for of electromagnet thing going on, and the tip of the
pen has some sort of magnet on it. That is how the screen understands that
the pen is on it.
On 21/4/05 08:49, "irfon_at_ambienautica.com" <irfon_at_ambienautica.com> wrote:
> "Clare Shepherd" <clareshepherd37_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What puzzles me is that it is not touch sensitive.
>> I thought all tablets were., but don't have any
>> experience of them. Am I mistaken?
>
> I was confused by that as well, but I think that the reviewer must have
> been mistaken. The device is shown with a stylus. If the screen is
> not touch sensitive, what would the stylus be *for*?
>
> Perhaps the stylus is special, and it's not finger-touch sensitive?
> That would be an odd approach, though. I can't imagine people going
> for that, considering how often people lose the stylus and have to make
> do with something else in a pinch or buy third-party styli.
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