HP TouchSmart is a series of

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s and

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all-in-one

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s designed by HP. It features various

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processors and runs

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as standard.

HP TouchSmart All-in-One

Consumer version

HP TouchSmart Crossfire

The HP TouchSmart was first introduced by

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on January 7, 2007, becoming the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC. Also known as the "Crossfire", the HP TouchSmart IQ770 featured a 19-inch touchscreen, an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 processor,

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Go 7600. It had a wide array of ports, including

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, two

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, six

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ports, one with HP printer power Y-cable connector, 5.1 + digital audio out, IR out,

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, FM coax, TV

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, ATSC, and two

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; however, the IQ770 did not have

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ports. ''

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'' gave the machine a "very good" rating of 81/100, but noted that the use of mobile components slowed the computer.

HP TouchSmart 2

On June 10, 2008, HP unveiled their new HP TouchSmart IQ500 series. The series featured a 22-inch widescreen touchscreen display, an

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processor, a 500GB disk, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M HS HD graphics, and 802.11n WiFi, along with an

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qualification. The new TouchSmart featured a 2-inch profile in a piano-black finish. The IQ500 series was followed by the IQ800 series, featuring a larger 25.5 inch touchscreen. Other features included a

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with remote, integrated webcam,

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, HP Pocket Media drive bay and an ambient light to illuminate the keyboard. It featured a Core 2 Duo T6600, 4GB of RAM, a DVD drive, a 1 TB HDD and no dedicated graphics chip as it used the Intel 4 series chipset. The more expensive IQ816 featured a 2.10 GHz T8100 Core 2 Duo on an 800 MHz bus with a 3MB cache, Blu-ray drive / dual-layer burner, and a GeForce 9600M GS chip. There is a choice of 640GB or 1TB hard drives.

TouchSmart 300

The TouchSmart 300 was released on October 13, 2009.HP http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/091013xc.html The all-in-one features an

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X2 235e (Energy Efficient) Processor Dual core @2.7 GHz. The platform is Regor and can be updated up to a Propus Quad Core AMD Athlon II X4 605e. Several models were released in different countries, but have similar features: * 4GB RAM

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PC-10600 * 500 GB HDD * 20" Touchscreen (1440 x 900) *

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* Wifi and Ethernet port * ATSC TV Tuner Touchsmart 300 with AMD Processors uses an integrated ATI HD 3200 graphics card with shared memory that can allocate 256MB to 1917MB of RAM dynamically (up to 3GB with the latest

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drivers 13.9 released in October 2013), it also has an MXM 3.0 Type-A slot for an external graphics card (integrated graphics card is disabled when MXM slot is populated), an XMnVidia GeForce G210 card (with 512MB of DDR3 dedicated memory) can be installed using the proper thermal module. Initially only rev. C2 quad core processors were supported, latest

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allows user to upgrade with rev. C3 processors (Athlon II X3 405e and Athlon II X4 605e). HP states in its support website that Touchsmart 300 RAM is upgradeable to 8GB RAM using 2 x 4gb modules but it's been proved it supports up to 16GB DDR3 PC-12800 (2 x 8GB) even if those are not recognized in the BIOS.

TouchSmart 500

The TouchSmart 500 was a series of touchscreen PCs that featured the

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and/or Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System. The computer featured a new tilt design that allowed it to be tilted up to 30 degrees backwards or forwards. The computer also featured an Intel Core 2 Duo T5850 (2.16 GHz), 4GB of RAM, and a 23" glossed sensitive touchscreen with a 358MB Intel GMA Mobile 965 GPU (before late 2009) or a Nvidia 9600M GS (after late 2009). The HP Touchsmart 520 featured in the series was one of the more powerful units, with an

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processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 1TB HDD. It also had a 23 inch glossy touchscreen.

TouchSmart 600

The TouchSmart 600 was released on October 13, 2009.

Business version

HP TouchSmart 9100

The TouchSmart 9100 is a business oriented all-in-one PC that bears a strong Recording Assistant to its consumer counterpart, the TouchSmart 600.

Tablet

TouchSmart tx2z

Released in December 2008, the TouchSmart tx2 was touted as the first consumer notebook and tablet PC with on-screen

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control. The TouchSmart tx2 replaced the older

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tx series.

TouchSmart tm2

The HP TouchSmart tm2 is a convertible laptop, with a multi-touch touch-screen. Converted into slate mode, the tm2 allows artists to draw using the included

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and also allows students to take notes in classes.

TouchSmart Mini 5102

HP's first touch-enabled

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, enabling multitouch gestures and menus. It features an anodized aluminum case in black, red or blue and weights 2.6 lbs. It offers

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for log-on to

. The series features

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N450 CPU,

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, HP video playback and 10-hour battery run time.

Slate

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, in conjunction with

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, CEO of

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, HP announced the

HP Slate PC.

References

External links

HP TouchSmart Australian microsite

(cnet.com) {{HP TouchSmart Microsoft Tablet PC Hewlett-Packard all-in-one computers Computer-related introductions in 2007