Maybe multitouch in Windows 7 can change your mind?

I realize I only have had mine for a few weeks and the novelty hasn't worn off but I think placement helps with the touchsmart as well. I put this one right on my coffee table in front of the couch. While the KB is right there under it, I use it quite often just by reaching over and touching it. I also have the mouse on the end table, so when I am too lazy to reach for the screen I still use the mouse and tabletpc input to do what I want.

I really thought it would just be cutesy and I would have little use for the touch screen when I bought it, but I got a refurb at a great price. Then when I first got it setup, I turned off the mouse and stowed the KB forcing myself to use it by touch for a full day and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to use it by this method. I also went through the handwriting detection program and trained it to my style. Worked okay before then, but does much better now that I have trained it.

I find that in this configuration it is so much more convenient to use as now I can sit on the couch and use the PC and still watch TV on my HD panel on the wall. Where before the computer was always on a computer desk in another room. So I really do believe that when HP designed these, they were thinking of alternative methods of use from the old conventional desktops. Some of their videos for this product to imply exactly that.

Cablevision also has HD TV channels without box.

No, I don't touch that much. The most that the screen is touched is when great nieces/nephew is over & they want to play hearts.
NeilJ

I try to use the touchscreen functionality as much as i can. I have no mouse connected at the moment, only my keyboard. I recon it takes a bit of time to get rid of those old mouse/keyboard habits.

Cooliris is definately the best application to use on the touchsmart, it's fast and it allows you to browse the web the way it should be on a touchsmart. If only it would allow you to view video's and pdf that would be sweet!

I've only had my TX2 for about 3 weeks now, and I got it primarily for the stylus/tablet mode (notes, presenting, etc.), but I love laying in bed, either reading an e-book or surfing the net in the tablet mode. Very natural. I had an HP TC1100 until it died, and I wanted a replacement for that. Other than more fan than I care for, this has been nice.

i dont even have the mouse near computer anymore, when you have windows 7 with kinetic scrolling and two fingers to right-click, you get used to it and i have to say that surfing and all sort of things is WAY faster then mouse after a while.
sure it requires some cleaning on the screen once a week but no biggy. to me.. not worth 1200$ if ur not using touch, cuz for that kind of money you can by a awsome machine without touch.