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Major Tablet PC Running Into Problems?
An anonymous reader writes "As Digitimes says :
Global sales of Tablet PCs have not been as strong as expected, and major Tablet PC vendors like Acer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have even experienced declining sales of the products, sources said.
Acer, which claims it sold about 35,000 Tablet PCs worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2002, saw sales of the product plunge by over 50% in the first quarter of this year. " I actually saw/held my first Tablet PC last week - it was one of Fujitsu series machines, and I was pretty impressed by it. It'd make a good business/school machine, but I don't think you'd want it for gaming and the like.
No, but you can cook a salmon rather well in a dishwasher.
Rob.
I just received a Tablet PC for a graduation present, and it's probably the most useful and neatest gift anyone's ever given to me.
The Viewsonic version is what was given to me by my grandparents (image here), and I'm extremely pleased with it so far. How can others not be enjoying such an innovative work of technology/art?
Every Tablet PC comes with a digital pen you can use to control the computer and input information in your own handwriting. Using the Windows Journal to handwrite notes or create drawings and save them as documents is simple.
You can easily convert your handwriting into text for use in Windows Journal or in other Windows XP-compatible applications, such as Word version 2002, Excel version 2002, and Outlook version 2002. Tablet PC has tools to help convert your handwritten text into typed text by identifying words that may have been recognized incorrectly and by giving you a list of alternative words.
I've found all this really exciting and interesting. I never thought I'd need one, and didn't buy one myself -- but now that I have one, I can't imagine living without it. All I wish now is that I had spent less time messing around with Linux (I used to submit code for X and various Mandrake utilities) so that I could have a real paying job and buy more Tablet PCs!
Well, I'm sure if Major Tablet PC got promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Tablet PC, he could pull rank and avoid doing the damn obstacle course where he keeps running into things. :P
And seriously, about the CDR, WHY NOT put a firewire port on it? WHY NOT make it run full Mac OSX? (Built in disc burning)
Congrats! You've just invented the most expensive PowerBook ever! You want a tiny form factor, that runs a desktop operating system, has a built in camera and cellphone? Anything else? Casual blowjobs on demand maybe? A cure for cancer?
I know there's a little link overload, just illustrating how easily this could be done right now!
All of this could be squeezed into a current form factor Sony Clie.
No, no it couldn't. You've just linked to half a dozen different very expensive products in that form factor. The resulting combined product would be about six times larger, cost more than your house, and have a battery life of about thirty seconds. And nobody would buy it because they'd rather spend all that money on some of whatever it is you're smoking, because it must be some good shit.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
> It'd make a good business/school machine, but I don't think you'd want it for gaming and the like.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Don't know about this.
I gotten my fastest time on minesweeper using a tablet PC. I find it much easier using the stylus rather then the mouse.
If you get modded down for a first post... What do you get for a last post?
Why not?
I'd make a great chess-board! Are any other board game for that matter.
GSM service around here is still pretty poor. Unfortunately I have yet to find a TDMA phone with Bluetooth.
LordBodak's journal.
Only if its a lemon dish washer detergent.
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