While Apple users have had it for a while now, one of the coolest new technologies this year is multi-touch for PCs.
Like HP's Touchsmart series of laptops and all-in-one desktops, the Latitude XT2 will now support applications that let you zoom in and out of photos or web pages by simply spreading or closing your fingertips across the touch-sensitive 12.1-inch display. Other gestures allow you to rotating elements on the screen, and pan over large application windows.
According to Dell, these gestures already work on popular applications such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Earth and Acrobat.
Some of the other cool applications that Microsoft has demonstrated include an on-screen piano, and a 'paint' application that supports up to four fingers on screen at the same time.
The multi-touch capability is nicely paired with the tablet format of the XT2, which conveniently turns the XT2 into a digital notebook. As such, Dell expects you to use it for long periods of time, and so offers a six-cell battery option that will give you up to 11 hours of operating time.
The basic configuration for the XT2 comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 1.2GHz, 1GB of DDR3 RAM (upgradeable to 5GB), an 80GB hard disk drive (option for a 64GB solid state drive), onboard Intel graphics chip, Wi-Fi (option for 3G connectivity), and the usual array of ports.