HP’s DreamScreen 400 is the touchscreen Linux desktop you’ll never own

“What’s this thing? It looks pretty cool. What pretty icons! Can I touch them? I can, really?” Etc. That basically describes our infantile thought process when we stumbled across the DreamScreen 400 (not to be confused with the DreamScreen photo frame line), a new all-in-one desktop from HP, but suddenly it all became clear: this thing is built for the Indian market, and us chubby Americans will have to keep on dreaming. Still, it’s an interesting thought experiment. HP has long sought to differentiate itself in its Windows-based offerings, and even at times abandoned its first OS love with its Mobile Internet Edition Ubuntu-based netbooks and now its upcoming webOS tablets . The DreamScreen 400, which runs some flavor of Linux with an extensive, touch-friendly HP skin on top, sort of demonstrates an alternate reality where HP decided to pursue Linux in the consumer desktop space — Microsoft be damned. Of course, this is also an actual reality: you should be able to buy this 18.5-inch desktop in India for Rs. 19,999 (about $450) in India right around nowish, and we’ll see where HP takes this software from here. [Thanks, Chris J. ] Continue reading HP’s DreamScreen 400 is the touchscreen Linux desktop you’ll never own HP’s DreamScreen 400 is the touchscreen Linux desktop you’ll never own originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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