This is NOT a PC your son would want to use as a primary game machine. It is light on CPU power, even at the top end with the P8400 that comes with the business model, the dx9000. The video card is less exciting, several generations back in the low to mid-range laptop category. Depending on what his current needs are, think ahead 2 years when this machine is even more dated in the video game capability, and your son may have already talked you into something that plays games a lot better by then, and this will be your machine. The good news is, it will probably still be just fine for what you use a PC for, surfing, checking emails, watching TV and DVD's and paying bills online.
I'd recommend it for anyone who wants a PC without a bunch of cables hanging out the back going to a seperate monitor. This PC has a single dc power cord the size of a heavy duty shielded phone cord coming out the back, and the keyboard and mouse are wireless, so it looks right at home on a kitchen table. As far as touch screen activated video games, they may be under development for Windows 7, but I know of none out there already in retail now. My IQ 526 shipped with 40 games from HP, Wild Tangent, and Microsoft, but I must confess, I haven't even cracked open the Freecell program yet. There are quite a few adventure games, several puzzles, and the arcade genre, as well as the host of card games you always get with Vista Home Premium. I'd keep taking him to play the Mega Touchscreen you spoke of, just don't take him to bars to play it, or he'll next be asking for a bar of his own, and there is where you just gotta draw the line. =^) I may try some of these games for you to see how much touch is included in them, who knows? You may have the full load of games included in the basic PC without having to go out and buy any right off the bat. I just haven't played any of them yet. Well, off to work, gotta experience my investment before it stops working...

|=)) Dave

Looks like all the Wild Tangent games are trialware, still looking, played "Polar Pool" yesterday by Wild Tangent, a Polar Bear in an inner tube is on a frozen pond shaped like a billiard table and is used as the cue ball... Pretty cool game, but limited use because they want your money to unlock the game.
I didn't try the touch feature of the TS, but aiming is done with the mouse, and shooting is done with the mouse1 button, so it might be an uncoordinated combination of touch gestures. I'll try a few more, and let you know.
Dave

I can tell you that the copy of Call of Duty: World At War (CoD5) runs like an old time movie at 12 frames or so a second, and feels like it has ultra internet lag in single offline player mode. I'm sure it has to do with the wimpy laptop graphics card that came with the iq526, the 9300M nVidia, as well as the 90-95 processes that run in the stock TS background resident memory. I'll have to keep turning bells and whistles down until it runs more smoothly. It reminds me of when I bought the kids a game called "Alphabet Blocks" back in 1993 for a really good price, and spent $250 on hardware to get it to run on my old 486 for them...
I paid $18.76 shipped free on ebay for the CoD5 sealed DVD, sound familiar? I'd still like to see a more serious video card as an after puchase option for the TS, it's really not that advanced of a hardware swap, as long as you have new heat transfer pad strips for the memory, and arctic silver 5 for the GPU.
Dave