

On the hardware side, the secret to adding touch is the digitizer, a translucent grid array that sits on top of a notebook's LCD display.

More to the point, she sees them going from exclusively business systems to those that consumers buy as well. Spurred on by the release of Windows 7 and new hardware, Colgrove forecasts that the number of touch notebooks sold could rise from today's 2 to 3 percent of the market to as much as 10 percent in 2015.
