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Examining a Tablet PC
Mister Buttons writes "There really haven't been any real technical reviews of the new Tablet PC operating
system from Microsoft yet. Those marketing stories published on CNET and the like
do little more than whet the appetite. Luckily it looks like someone finally took
a close look at the Tablet PC. The folks over at AnandTech have a good tablet PC review up which includes information on both the hardware
and software that the tablet PCs use. Maybe it's time to break open that piggy
bank..."
I'm surprised that it took the /. community this long to get their hands on one of these. Now how long till we see a tablet build of linux?
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I still don't see what the hype of a tablet PC is all about, for much less you can pick a a PC, or even a laptop and a Wacom Graphics tablet.
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well, i suppose its nice to see exactly what you are about to click on, but with a little skill, and co-ordinaton, the same can be achieved with a wacom, or copy of.
Until they come down in cost, with handwriting reconition so good that i can scrawl quicker than i can type (which is very, very messy) i won't be bothering.
Even graffiti on the Palms is hell-in-a-handbag to get used to, compared to typing.
Who will buy these? Not me. I have no use for them. I have no use for PDAs either. Sure both are spiffy little toys but so what?
/. poll. They will be sexy when they run Linux? Only because then we /.ers will fall into the same consumer craze that everyone else already has. John Q Public likes a new toy, we like anything, especially new toys, with Linux. I'd rather buy an X-Box seeing as the last console I bought was an N64.
A PDA is a glorified pen and planner at 20 times the cost. I imagine tablets will be the same. Take a look at a recent
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No. Maybe you will not give your piggy bank to Micro$oft for once.
This is an opensource forum with pro-free software people. Surely somebody must see that buying hardware from Redmond is feeding the beast? Especially since the thing comes with windows pre-installed?!
Besides, in my opinion, the thing is a gadget. I see no use for a geek or poweruser, only for those management-types that always buzz around everywhere with all their 'cool' new toys that are way too expensive for whatever use it has... If it has a use, that is.
It's funny how marketing people themselves always seem to fall for marketing talk, sales tricks and stupid show-off gadgets, you'd think they'd know better...
how about up your ass, i.e. where it belongs if you have that much shit that you carry...