Ignoring the touchscreen part, which should be quite nice since it won't be required for data entry and will just speed general useage like navigation, its going to be interesting to see the basic look of that device, you would expect the basic casing to be like the tour or improved from that e.g. including the trackpad of the gemini.

As far as it disappearing from the blogs, that probably means that its not due for at least a few months into 2010 and may even have a different codename too due to earlier leaks. One thing you would also expect is that storm 2 will show up well before it does so that any new ideas for touchscreen tech can go into the device that needs them most and then the magnum can benefit from them later.