According to Engadget, Albatron is planning on making a 21.5″ multi-touch display. Word is that it’s going to use a digitizer technology that employs sensors in the bezel rather than on the display itself in order to keep the display as bright as possible.
Question is: With Windows 7 will we see many more multi-touch monitors like this, thereby driving the cost down? Or will this become a niche product for a niche use of the future OS?
It’s to Microsoft’s advantage to have multi-touch become widespread, but I’m not so sure that’s the goal. That’s just my intuition talking. I can imagine there’s some MBA encouraging multi-touch to stay as a premium feature–read that a non-mass-market feature.
This will be very interesting to see how it plays out over the next few months as companies prepare their Windows 7-optimized hardware.