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24 Comments on "HP TouchSmart tm2 Tablet PC Hardware Overview Review"

RealDiehl17 on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 11:19 am 



In this model you have the dedicated ATI graphics card. I heard that you are able to switch between the ATI dedicated graphics card and the Intel graphics media accelerator based on whether the unit is on battery power or plugged in. (You would use the Intel graphics media accelerator to save battery power when the unit is not plugged in and use the ATI graphics card when the unit is plugged in) Is this true and if so how do you switch between them?

mattyk124 on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 11:27 am 



i just bought this laptop online and should get it in a few weeks and your videos were exactly what i wanted to learn about the laptop and if there are any cool things you could tell me about this laptop you didn’t mention so i could expect some other things and i was wondering if you could tell me a little more about the fingerprint reader cause i got that on mine and if you could tell me some cool things about that would be great

festivalnadrekou on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 11:47 am 



Hey, thank you for this review. Is it possible to make a short video of using HP Touchsmart TM2 outdoors? Some people out there says it is absolutely useless when trying to operate outdoors (because of the glossy screen)

festivalnadrekou on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 12:10 pm 



festivalnadrekou Hey, thank you for this review. Is it possible to make a short video of using HP Touchsmart TM2 outdoors? Some people out there says it is absolutely useless when trying to operate outdoors (because of the glossy screen)

MrsTessixD on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 12:49 pm 



i’m from germany so i don’t understand the whole things but i would like to know what the hp driver with the same finish does cost (maybe you said it but i didn’t understand it, sorry)
thank you
Tessi =)

EddPato on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 1:04 pm 



Do you know if they have this laptop on Best Buy stores, and not online?

EddPato on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 1:50 pm 



Do you know if they have this laptop on Best Buy stores, and not online?

EddPato on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 2:36 pm 



Do you know if they have this laptop on Best Buy stores, and not online?

EddPato on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 2:37 pm 



Do you know if they have this laptop on Best Buy stores, and not online?

EddPato on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 3:36 pm 



Thanks for posting the videos, it was really helpfull for me.
Do you know if they have this laptops in BestBuy stores? Or in what stores? Because I can’t order it online.

heatlesssun on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 4:12 pm 



What country are you in? As far as I know these things are available all over North America and Europe.

You really don’t want a tx2. I have a tx2 and while it was a decent machine the tm2 is MUCH better. Especially when it comes to heat and noise. The tm2 simply doesn’t produce much heat or noise unlike the tx2.

heatlesssun on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 5:04 pm 



Good follow up points and thanks for the kind words.

ewenjam on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 5:30 pm 



should i wait for this or just get the tx2

newbieharris on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 6:07 pm 



@unitedmesa From what I’ve read, 7 hours is realistic, with wifi off, brightness down etc. The official 9.7 is as usual a, let’s say, “optimistic” estimate.

newbieharris on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 6:56 pm 



Thanks a lot for this great video! It shows off the strengths of the tm2 really well. I was a bit worried about the screen, but from what I see I think it will be fine for me.

Just two quick remarks though: First on the audio jack, this is a combined mic/audio out jack (featuring a 4 pin output) so in principle one can connect a normal set- needs some kind of splitter though and I have not found one yet.
Second, I think one should stress that “home” etc keys are still there, as “fcn+up” etc.

jtad114 on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 7:46 pm 



4.5

savz23 on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 8:14 pm 



Great reviews heatlesssun, thanks for the info!

thejosephij on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 8:46 pm 



9.7 hours

unitedmesa on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 9:36 pm 



how many hours does battery last whats battery life

natethegreat787 on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 10:10 pm 



2 – in order to set the view properly, you can start the magnifier program in windows 7. set it to full-screen at 100 percent, and the click on “invert colors”. the keyboard shortcut for this is control/shift/I

thank you very much; your review is greatly appreciated!!

natethegreat787 on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 10:53 pm 



1 – thank you for the review. one hold up for me is the glossy screen…since i often use black backgrounds with white text. can you tell me how the black levels are? how much of a difference do u see with the led backlight versus the lcd backlight of the tx2?? and finally, could you by chance tell me if there is any issues with reflections when viewing this in low light settings with the black backgrounds?

heatlesssun on Mon, 19th Apr 2010 11:28 pm 



From what I’m hearing Photoshop runs fine on the base configuration model.

TheHazyMind on Tue, 20th Apr 2010 12:23 am 



Nice, can’t wait to get this

davidcruz151 on Tue, 20th Apr 2010 12:31 am 



now I want one even more! How well do you think this machine will run photoshop with the intel integrated graphics card?

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