I am by no means a gamer (don’t play, never did a lot (except for Tetris (the original one), The Incredible Machine, and maybe something else) but was fascinated by Crayon Physics Deluxe. I’ve been setting up my father’s and my sister’s computer (they’ve bought themselves an MSI multi-touch all-in-one PC AE2220M) and found an interesting application in the Windows 7 Touch Pack: Blackboard. It reminded me of The Incredible Machine, a DOS-based game in the early nineties. Refreshing the fond memories of TIM, I read the Wikipedia article about it, where I saw the game Crayon Physics Deluxe mentioned. When I saw the demo (the video recording), I downloaded a trial and bought the game. I do own a tablet, and I’m testing it on my kids tomorrow (they are not allowed to work computer otherwise).
With regards to the multi-touch all-in-one PC: it is solid built, the sound is not so great, and the keyboard is too small for my taste and feels very plastic — it is wireless, on the other hand. Otherwise, it’s quite good consireding the price (720 EUR + VAT), sporting a dual core CPU, 4GB of RAM and 640GB of hard disk space. A quality keyboard would’ve made the difference, in my opinion, since the rest of the computer feels quite solid.
