Confirmed: Dell Studio 17 multi-touch laptop to launch in UK this year

By Nate Lanxon on 23 November 2009, 11:51am

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Dell unveiled its first multi-touch laptop late last week -- the mid-range Studio 17. And we're pretty excited to be able to confirm it'll launch in the UK "before the end of the year", according to a Dell spokesperson we ~~tortured for info~~ quizzed this morning.

This is a 17-inch machine with an LED-backlit display running at 1,440x900-pixels. Plus it runs Windows 7, which was built to natively support multi-touch technologies. You can touch the start menu to fire up programs, pinch to zoom in on photos and all that jazz.

The $899 (£545) base configuration is reasonably average, apart from the touchscreen. You get a 2.1GHz Intel Pentium T4300 CPU, 3GB of speedy DDR3 RAM, a 250GB hard drive, a standard DVD-RW drive and integrated graphics.

We specced up a more satisfying build, which includes a Blu-ray drive. This spec includes a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 3GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card and a BD-RW drive. This build cost $1,374 (£830). Still very well-priced for a multi-touch laptop with dedicated graphics and Blu-ray.

Obviously we'll wait and see how much British shoppers are penalised for living on the right side of a stretch of water when the machine goes on sale here. You can see our review of the non-touchscreen Studio 17 here. We'll let you know when we get a firm on-sale date in the UK, and in the meantime you can click 'Continue' for a few more choice press shots.

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anonymous 26 November, 2009 14:46

Awsumm laptop.. Love ya

anonymous 6 December, 2009 09:04

Sounds good, but one thing I found w/owning a tablet PC is that it becomes quite unweildy when using the likes of photoshop.

It's great to be able to draw on the screen directly, but you need access to the keyboard for shortcuts etc. Will multitouch solve this problem with an onscreen keyboard? I dunno, but for now, tablet PC's or touch screen PC's for designers seem just that little bit out of reach.