This week a new touchscreen kit designed for Samsung NC10 netbooks hitted eBay for about $99. The kit comes from the same folks (FidoHub.com) who brought us touchscreen kits for 8.9 inch netbooks including the Asus Eee PC 900/901, Acer Aspire One and 10.2 inch laptops including the Eee PC 1000 series and the MSI Wind U100. You can check out their eBay store to see some of the other models available.
While $99 / €71 might seem like a steep price for a touchscreen kit when you can often find touchscreen displays for under $50, this model has a few advantages. First, no soldering iron required. And second, the seller includes instructions for installing the touchscreen on specific netbook models. If you know your way around a soldering iron and the insides of a laptop, you can probably save some money and find a cheaper option. If not, these kits look like good solutions.
On the other hand, word on the street is that Asus, MSI and several other netbook makers could begin introducing netbooks with touchscreens as early as next month at CES. So the whole idea of a touchscreen kit might be obsolete by early next year.
Note: the touchscreen controller board is made by EETI … and they developed drivers for basically every OS, including touchscreen drivers for MacOSX, Linux, and every Windows version.
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- Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
- Empire.Kred since 2021-07
- Karma-Lab.com since 2019-01
- Invision Community since 2018-05
- Insanely Mac since 2018-02
- eGPU.io since 2017-04
- Tech Inferno since 2016-08
- forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
- WordPress.org since 2015-12
- Couch Surfing since 2014
- BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
- Warrior Forum since 2013-07
- Empire Avenue since 2013
forum.OSXLatitude.comsince 2011-08- Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
- TripAdvisor since 2010-09
MoneyMakerGroup.comsince 2007-03- HardWare.info since 2003-08
- SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
- gathering.tweakers.net since 2000-11
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- BestProfitsTeam.com since 2017
- CycleClubMembers.com since 2015
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