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Analyzing the Microsoft Tablet PC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-its-still-neat dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet UK has an amusing - but accurate in my view - review of the Microsoft Tablet PC. It may not be the first, but it is the most incisive because of the way it dissects the many fundamental flaws in Microsoft's latest creation."

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  1. Re:This is not a Tablet PC!!! by macalmaclan · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're quite correct. This is not a Tablet PC. Read the review... It's a *suppository* PC :)
    I think ZD's reviewer may have started something with that name...

  2. Re:I think tablet PCs will be great by amembrane · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'll wait until 15 inches become popular / cost effective.

    Anyone with 15 inches is gonna be popular, and according to spam, is becoming increasingly cost effective.

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  3. The worst... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    The worst bit about this terrible submission is that Taco will dupe the post in about 3 hours.

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  4. I CAN FILL IN THE MISSING STEP! by liquidsin · · Score: 5, Funny

    2) Sell ad space to Microsoft

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  5. The Best Line in the Review by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Tablet is the wrong medicinal analogy: suppository more adequately describes the Smart Display experience."

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  6. Look on the bright side by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 4, Funny


    At least CmdrTaco spelled "Tablet PC" correctly...

  7. James T. Kirk? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the article:

    Perhaps it was the sight of Captain James T Kirk scribbling away on his executive starship tablet...

    I remember we actually got a look at that tablet in one of the episodes. About 20% of the space on one side was dedicated to a light labeled 'System Failure' (which was not on at the time). That's right, about 10% of the total potential screen space was dedicated to a light telling you it was broken, implying that this is a 'feature' that is required often. Looking back, I wonder if this is what MS used as a prototype...

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  8. Hold the Phone! by telstar · · Score: 4, Funny
    "It may not be the first, but it is the most incisive because of the way it dissects the many fundamental flaws in Microsoft's latest creation."
    • I thought that was Slashdot's job...
  9. Re:The tablet is amazing by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Funny
    I thought Apple's Inkwell handwriting technology was first in this area?

    Didn't the newton have hadwriting regognition?

    Yes it dud, mole or lease.

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