You may remember that we wrote about the HP Tx2000 / Tx2500 “entertainment” Tablet PC earlier in the year. It included a couple of really great features like:

• AMD 64 bit processor
• Inbuilt DVD Burner
• Active digitiser pen.

HP Tx1000, the original model in this series left a lot to be desired. It was a touch screen only model. That was unfortunate because I’ve met dozens of people who bought the Tx1000 because they always wanted to try a Tablet PC and the Tx1000 was cheap.

Many of them were put off the Tablet PC experience altogether because of the touch screen.

With a touch screen it is very easy to accidentally confuse the PC. For example, when you’re writing it is natural to lean your wrist on the writing surface. A touch screen sees that as multiple points of contact and it get’s confused.

So a touch screen is not ideal for writing tasks, particularly when there is twelve inches of screen to connect with. People who bought the Tx1000 were very generally disappointed because of this.

Fortunately, HP listened and included an active digitiser in the Tx2000 and Tx2500 (They’ve been doing that a bit lately, listening). Tx2500 is a good improvement on the Tx1000 series and it is also still a cheap way to get into a Tablet PC.

That said, the Tx2500 “Entertainment Notebook” fits into the home notebook range. It’s not really ideal for full on business use and it’s certainly not rugged.

We’ve finally added the HP Pavilion Tx2500 to our online shop here.

HP recently released the new Tx2000 which is in very similar to the entry level Tx1000 Tablet PC.

The major drawback of the Tx1000 was the lack of a digitising tablet. The Tx1000 only has a touch screen, which is not very practical in a full size tablet PC because in normal writing posture, your hand will create multiple touch points on the screen, making it difficult to use.

Hat’s off to HP who listened and built a digitising tablet and a touch screen into the Tx2000. The tablet pen is a battery powered model and not a Wacom pressure sensitive digitiser, no doubt to keep the price down.

Correction: This Tablet PC does use a Wacom capacitive touch digitising system. The pen does not use a battery and the touch screen function works with a nice light touch.

HP have released a video series for the launch featuring Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs (Discovery channel).

Not really sure if it’ll sell more Tx2000s but it’s a bit of fun anyway!

Check out the full video series here.

HP Pavilion Tx2000 Key Features:

• Full on entertainment machine
• Looks pretty cool
• AMD Turion™ 64 TL-64 2.20 GHz Processor
• 2Gb DDR2 RAM
• 12″ Wide screen display
• Touch screen and active digitizer
• NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6150
• 8X DVD±RW Double Layer, Lightscribe
• Weight: 1.96 kg

We’ll have them in the shop soon for AUD $2199.00 Inc GST.

The Tx2000 is a great way for home users to get started with a Tablet PC.