Maybe it was the success of the phone, or perhaps because the prototype of Microsoft Surface enchanter whole world, but today no one denies a touch screen. The net books with touch screen are rare, but some people already thought of proposing kits for conversion to implement this functionality in the most popular, as the EeePc 701 and 901 or the Acer Aspire One.

Although no soldering is required, you’re going to have to get pretty deep into the innards of your machine to fit these things The first kits depended on a certain manual skill, it was necessary to weld some parts, but the new generation were designed for simple assembly thanks to a special connector.

Usually these are passive screens, in other words, there is no need for a special pen tablets as the first and can be used their own fingers, even if they have less accuracy. The drivers have support for Windows and Linux and is curious to note that in some cases there is also support for Mac OS X.

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