It was supposed to be this wondertablet, a breakthrough device with iPhone-like capacitative touch screen, plus innovative software like its TouchSmart all-in-one siblings. But Laptop's testing shows the touch features aren't nearly good enough.

Just a reminder, that Dell Latitude XT multi-touch firmware update is available right now. Click here to grab the ~15MB update for Vista 32 bit, 64 bit or Windows XP. Then you can use multi-touch for browsers, Office, Google Earth and more. Hurray. [Direct2Dell]

Dell's Latitude XT tablets will receive their long-awaited multi-touch firmware update Tuesday, adding multi-touch to web browsers, MS Office, Google Earth, photo viewers, and more to zoom, scroll and pinch just like you-know-who. There's also a boss-is-coming shortcut-double-tap the screen and it goes dark instantly,…

While we sorta groaned at the Latitude XT's $2500 base-model pricetag along with everybody else (cause it's expensive!) we didn't piss and moan too much because we knew that the DuoSense technology making it the only input device on the market that combines a pressure-sensitive pen with multitouch into a single surface …

Dell's Latitude XT 12.1-inch convertible Tablet PC is finally official, and it's being paraded as the world's "only sub-four-pound 12.1-inch convertible tablet" with capacitive touch capability—meaning it'll sense your finger (sorry, only one) without any pressure at all. Also on the touchy-feely side, it's got palm…

An internal Dell document for the Latitude XT Tablet has surfaced, more or less confirming previously-leaked specs, while revealing a few new ones.