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Tablet PC Rorschach Inkblot Test
LPH writes "ESC Technologies just put up a funny series of images that they ran through the Tablet PC recognition software." Perhaps these tablets need a "doodle" setting.
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Try a Seiko SmartPad and a PDA and save about $1000+ . What you are saying is that the MS TabletPC brings to the table is a place to draw and a piece of software that lets you combine text and drawings. Geesh, the Palm m100 lets you do this in it's memo app... The Seiko Smartpad gives you the same functionality but with a larger drawing area and higher resolution. Both are WAY cheaper then this "new" invention from Microsoft.
The MS TabletPC is obviously just another way to sell the MS Windows OS since it really doesn't solve any problems that were not already solved by cheaper tools. Maybe a Handera 330 with WiFi or Bluetooth( or the new Palm with Bluetooth ) could get the wireless connectivity solution in there too?
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"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
I just wonder what happens if you feed the software this image.
Sorry but I didn't mean that the Palm by itself could replace what this guy was doing. Just that they already have an app that does this and with alittle software, the SmartPad or something like it could be used to solve that the PARENT poster thought was useful about the MS TablePC.
That really would be foolish to think the Palms processor could do handle something which might require a 800MHz+ x86 CPU. Saving line drawings with some text doesn't take much.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
oh, I guess I must have said that somewhere in some town there can't possibly be a use for a tablet PC.... That's not what I said or ment. The PARENT poster said he thought combining text with line drawings was fantastic and a good reason for the MS TablePC. I was just saying that there are other solutions to THAT problem and I took a jab at the fact that I THIHK that the MS TablePC is a niche product which Microsoft is peddling as it's own invention and another end all, be all solution to everybodies computing needs. It ain't. IMHO.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
If you NEED the processing power of a laptop it would be just dumb to think you could use a Palm PDA to do the same task. Your assumption that I think that... well, you're wrong.
The tablet PC's are a niche product and always will be. There will be people who can used them and because I say they are dumb and a MS marketing ploy to make it look like there is actually ANY innovation coming from Microsoft, doesn't mean some guy in some corner of the world can't find them useful. THEY ARE ALREADY BEING USED and MICROSOFT DIDN'T INVENT THEM.
Come on, the PalmOS is eating Microsofts lunch and they took the idea of a big PDA and said Microsoft invented it. BFD.
BTW, they PARENT poster said he thought combining text input with line drawings was really cool. I just wanted to get the point across that you don't need a big expensive tablet to do that. If you must run a full blown office suite for taking notes at a meeting, then you are stuck using a Windows PC of some format as long as MS Word/Office is your suite.
I've used a PDA and a portable keyboard for tons of work and then brought it into my desktop for formating later. It all fit in my pockets( well, kinda ).
Did you even see that I mentioned using the SmartPad for drawing input? And if your eyes are so bad you can't read text on a PalmOS screen then go ahead and do whatevery you want. Me, I don't carry a laptop around anymore because either a PalmOS device does what I need or my Sharp Zaurus does the rest. Everything else gets done on the desktop.
This kinda stuff fightens Microsoft because if the PDA's start doing too much, the Windows based desktop stops becoming the center of the world for most people. Go ahead and carry a MS TabletPC around, and use your MS Xbox, and your MS Windows XP desktop, your MS PocketPC. That's what Microsoft wants so you can start getting all your news and entertainment from MS XXXXX and MS YYYYYY.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
your car would be so busy reporting to big brother it ignores the throttle and the steering wheel, but the radio works just fine.
yes, the m$ car would crash before you made it
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel
I could care less about seiko but always looking at everything like it's a nail because you have a hammer is just stupid. I'm referring to Microsoft BTW. People need to figure out what they need and find a solution instead of waiting around for someones PR department to decide it's time to promote some new re-invention.
The multiple responses were because they applied to different comments and I don't have the default view set to flat. sorry bout that.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus