Comments on: Acer Aspire 1820PT finally shows up: 599 EURO starting price

By: John Pope

John Pope — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:30:33 +0000

I don’t understand how it can be discontinued as it was not even appeared in shops… but I guess that’s another mystery we’re going to accept as is.

By: MW

MW — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:48:08 +0000

As I understand it the model has been discontinued in the UK.
Perhaps it will be available elsewhere.

By: Save on Laptops

Save on Laptops — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:21:49 +0000

I think the 1820 models had resistive screens and its the new 1825 models due out soon that will have capacative screens. Havent seen an 1820 in the flesh so cant confirm this is the case for sure.

By: magnum

magnum — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:42:47 +0000

Both screen and trackpad support multitouch gestures in Windows 7, and there’s a stylus too which can be used for more accurate handwriting recognition
More: http://bit.ly/acer-aspire-1820pt-impressions

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:46:15 +0000

Acer has a product page for this system — http://us.acer.com/acer/seu30e.do?LanguageISOCtxParam=en&link=ln374e&CountryISOCtxParam=US&acond125e=68403&kcond48e.c2att101=68403&sp=page17e&ctx1g.c2att92=145&ctx2.c2att1=0&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=2993743370 — and the specs promise up to 8 hours of battery life, which makes this a very exciting system indeed if that $599 estimate that’s been floating around is anything like accurate.

I’m skeptical about the claim that this has capacitative touchscreen. Is that coming straight from Acer? According to a review I’ve found for the PTZ, which is the same system but with Intel Dual Core instead of Core 2 Duo (http://forums.vr-zone.com/notebooks-netbooks/521303-acer-aspire-1820ptz-convertible-tablet-first-impressions-mini-review.html), the system includes a stylus and features pressure sensitive inking, which I wasn’t aware was possible with capacitative touch. I’m wondering if this might be resistive multitouch more akin to the Asus T101MT. The review does mention switching between finger and pen modes for touch, so it could be there’s something else going on. Either way, sounds promising for inking, especially as there’s palm rejection.