Put a cap in it
It looks like Microsoft is still trying to revive the dead horse that is the Tablet PC.
I was one of the few people who actually bought a Windows-based pen computer prior to the Tablet PC (A Compaq Concerto with a 386 and Windows 3.1.1 For Pen Computing), and the usefulness of that "laptop" was nothing like the Lombard Powerbook I bought just three years later. The Tablet PC offers the consumer less functionality (unless it's a convertible) than a laptop, at the same or higher price. Try composing an email on a Tablet versus typing one out on a laptop. As much as Microsoft and others like to think that the future is all web forms and multimedia, plain ol' text isn't going away soon.
I was one of the few people who actually bought a Windows-based pen computer prior to the Tablet PC (A Compaq Concerto with a 386 and Windows 3.1.1 For Pen Computing), and the usefulness of that "laptop" was nothing like the Lombard Powerbook I bought just three years later. The Tablet PC offers the consumer less functionality (unless it's a convertible) than a laptop, at the same or higher price. Try composing an email on a Tablet versus typing one out on a laptop. As much as Microsoft and others like to think that the future is all web forms and multimedia, plain ol' text isn't going away soon.
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2.13.2005.
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