BenchmarkReviews.com: With the introduction of Windows 8, Microsoft had done its best to accommodate multiple forms of input. Along with the traditional keyboard and mouse, touch had finally become a "built-in" consideration rather than a tacked-on addition. Helped along by Apple, the rapidly growing mobile device market and proliferation of touch interfaces, touch has become a far more commonplace method of interfacing with a computer. Logitech, a company well known for their peripherals, wasted no time in updating their line of devices with the Logitech T650 Wireless Touchpad which Benchmark Reviews will be taking a look at today. Can a gesture-enabled multi-touch pad enhance your productivity more than a mouse and keyboard? Read on to find out.
Pocket-Lint: Windows 8 brought with it a quite specific problem - be it real or imagined - namely, that it was designed for touch interaction. So the Logitech T650 was designed to bring touch to the millions upon millions of computers in the world that have no touch abilities.
Costing £69, its a bit on the expensive side, but for the money you do get something that looks like care has been lavished on its design, and let's be honest, it's cheaper than a touchscreen monitor or new laptop.
Maximum PC: Get ready to grope your hardware, provided you're a fan of Logitech products and didn't read that statement out of context. We're not talking about doing anything inappropriate at your workplace, we're referring to Logitech's three new touch-friendly peripherals for Windows 8, including the Logitech Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad T650, Logitech Touch Mouse T620, and Logitech Zone Touch Mouse T400.
I hope Microsoft isn't using these. The UI of Windows 8 needs to work without special hardware.
Logitech has today revealed its Wireless Touchpad, which will enable users to surf the web by pointing, swiping and scrolling, using the multi-touch, gesture-based controls.
