GPIn our third and final segment on the HP TouchSmart, we decided to see how the innovative desktop handled a usual day at the home office editing photos and scouring the web. How much of a difference did ditching the keyboard and mouse make? Hit the jump to read about our experience going, quite literally, hands-on.
If doctors figure out how to graft a DSLR onto the human wrist, we’ll be the first on the list for experimental testing — we’re rarely anywhere without a camera in tow anyway. Until then, managing and editing hundreds of new photos each week will remain a major time suck in our day to day ops.
The process of transferring images to the TouchSmart was thankfully pretty simple right out of the box, thanks to an integrated 6-in-1 digital media card slot. Even better, the HP Link app made the process of grabbing photos off our cell phones and laptops into an automatic process thanks to built-in Bluetooth. Using the app’s scheduling features, we soon had each of our devices transferring a day’s snapshots to the TouchSmart’s home library easy and quickly, without ever having to think about it again.
Flicking through photo galleries in the “fan view” of the HP Photo app on the TouchSmart’s 23-inch screen also made quick work out of sorting the keepers from the junk. If we knew the name of the image we wanted, simply writing out the file name on the screen with one finger automatically triggered a search. Very cool. The ability to add an entire gallery or just keeping individual shots with notes jotted onto a sticky note was a small, but thoughtful feature.
