HP TouchSmart TX2-1370US 12.1-Inch Black Laptop - Up to 3.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 12 x 1.2 inches ; 4.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002Q0W8M0
• Item model number: VM307UA#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,063 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 18, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

IDEAL FOR Ultra portability. Get a true tablet PC with an easy-to-use touchscreen. Twist the screen 180° and fold it flat to capture handwritten notes using the included pen.

SPECIFICATIONS

Processor 2.30GHz AMD Turion™ X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor ZM-85 Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit Memory (RAM) 4GB DDR2 Display 12.1" Diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP LED Widescreen Integrated Touchscreen, Convertible Display (1280 x 800) Hard Drive 320GB (7200RPM) SATA Optical Drive LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support Wireless Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN Graphics Card ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 Graphics with 64 Display Cache Memory AMD M780G with 64MB GDDR2 (sideport memory) with up to 1982MB total graphics memory Battery 6-cell Lithium-Ion Battery; Up to 3.5 hour battery life* Weight & Dimensions (w x d x h) 4.65lbs; 12.05" x 8.82" x 1.23"/1.52"

FEATURES

Fingerprint Reader Manage passwords easily using your fingerprint LightScribe Technology Burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs Built-in HP Webcam Video chat live Mobile Remote Control music and videos easily from across the room 5-in-1 Digital Media Reader Transfer photos from digital cameras without using cables INCLUDED

HP Mini Remote Control stores easily in the remote dock

Product Description

For those whose active lives demand a device for note capture, entertainment, communication and robust computing that's easy to carry everywhere, the HP TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC delivers. The tx2 combines powerful computing with Tablet PC capabilities and entertainment features in an attractive design light enough to go anywhere. With multi-touch support within HP MediaSmart, it is the first notebook PC for consumers that enables the use of two fingers to navigate HP's entertainment applications.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Value For Money, November 24, 2009

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A. Brewster (Barbados) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HP TouchSmart TX2-1370US 12.1-Inch Black Laptop - Up to 3.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

So far this laptop has proven its worth. It's feature rich, has great specs for a laptop it's size and is very functional. Everything runs smoothly thanks to the decent processor and the relatively large amount of RAM.
The touchscreen is bright, vivid and responsive.
Battery life is satisfactory though, personally, I would prefer a 12 cell lithium-ion (but this can always be purchased separately).
Wi-fi is great with the inclusion of Wireless n technology (as well as b & g) allowing for faster wireless connection speeds.
320GB hard drive is a lot of storage space considering, for most people, the laptop won't be your main PC.
The new Windows 7 operating system offers many new and fun experiences, as well as the ability to perform tasks efficiently.
Integrated web-cam and mic allow for video conferencing on the go.
The fingerprint scanner is very cool and provides very stringent security for your system and even websites.
My only peeves with the product would be the fact that there are only 2 USB ports and the absence of Bluetooth.

In general, it's a great laptop/tablet PC and I doubt you'll feel cheated if you purchase it.

Update: The unit actually has 3 USB ports and it does tend to get fairly hot at times. The fan noise is tolerable; it really isn't THAT bad.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Laptop however needs some improvments, December 11, 2009

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A. Dickens "wildatom" (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP TouchSmart TX2-1370US 12.1-Inch Black Laptop - Up to 3.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

Pros: It has almost everything someone would want. My 4 year old loves the touch screen for websites that allow him to interact (ex fisher price website). Mine came with Windows vista, and I've been waiting for my windows 7 upgrade for 2 months now, hope to see it soon. Screen is bright, touch screen is great, finger print id is awesome, and computer is fast once you remove the bloat software HP installs.

Cons: I've owned this laptop for 3 months now and while it's great to have all these bells and whistles I can't stand the Fan noise. The fan is running 100% about 75% of the time and it's noisy. Also the heat from this laptop is crazy. My dell 6400 insp. ran somewhat hot but not as bad as this. Like I stated above I'm still waiting for my copy of windows 7, but looks like this one comes with windows 7 already.

Conclusion: Being this is the only one like this on the market (reminds me of my ipod touch) I'd buy it again. Hope HP comes out with a solution to the fans making so much noise.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Laptop, Everything breaks, June 22, 2010

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D. Leavitt "darazon" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP TouchSmart TX2-1370US 12.1-Inch Black Laptop - Up to 3.5 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) (Personal Computers)

I knew it was a bit of a gamble going for a HP laptop, but other tablets from Dell and Lenovo were $2000 more.

Here are the problems with this P.O.S.

1. First the hard drive failed on me within the first 2 months. A new one was put in by HP, and now I get the odd screen that says it can't find a bootable device. I turn it off, then back on, and it seems to work -until the next time.

2. The clock gets messed up and starts going "warp speed". Everything goes super fast and you can't control anything. Restart the machine and does not fix, the laptop will hibernate before you can even type in your password. I have to turn it off, unplug it, remove the battery, and wait 1 minute, then turn it on and its fine -until it happens again!

3. The battery died after 10 months. Will only last 15 minutes are so. I get a warning every time I start up that the battery is not optimal.

I wish I had not bought this tablet PC :( I have had to reload Windows 4 times now!