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IBM Tablet Announced

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the check-out-those-pictures dept.

Ahkorishaan writes "We heard from an earlier report here on Slashdot that IBM(Lenovo) had filed a patent on a TabletPC, and now they have officially announced the product. Our friends at Laptop Logic have a short review."

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  1. Patent? by CMBologna · · Score: 4, Funny

    But TabletPC's exist already!

    1. Re:Patent? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

      This one is different: it's red, needs no batteries, and you control it with two large knobs at the bottom of the screen.

      --
      "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. Mirrordot. by wlan0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh, /.ed already.

    Mirrordot here.

  3. What by lemonylimey · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's not a review, it's a summary of the press release and it's two weeks old. I'm used to commenters not RTFA, but it's getting a bit much when the posters can't be bothered either. You can find the only real review of the X41 Tablet I'm aware of here:

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1823715,00.as p

  4. Linux for Tablet here by bach37 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lycoris (I know, *grown*) has a Linux release for a tablet pc. Though this press release is dated 2003.... hmmm...

  5. Re:slashvertising by kinzillah · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lenovo has been manufacturing IBM's laptops for quite some time. The only difference is that they bought the division from IBM. They even kept the IBM employees. This was actually something they specifically had to have in the deal. They wanted everything to remain the same, only with a new owner.

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    Douglas P. Price
  6. Lame Links by fm6 · · Score: 4, Informative

    TFA isn't a review -- it's just a rehash of the IBM announcement. Plus it's on a site with zero Slashdot compatibility. Wny not link the IBM/Lenovo page directly? Probably because the submitter wanted to promote his site.

  7. Vendors miss the boat on tablets... by WareW01f · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My personal annoyance about the "tablet PC" market is that latter part... the "PC". When they first started the craze way back in 2000 or so, I thought, it would be a cool idea. Meaning just a tablet Something with a nice, readable screen (digital paper was all the buzz as well) that I could use to read normal 8.5x11 documentation on. Maybe take notes, but that's it You know, like a tablet of paper. Simple, thin, low power. Kind of an over grown PDA. I don't want the PC part, I have a nice desktop for when I'm at my desk and a pretty swell laptop that I do work on in a more mobile fasion (read coffee shop hacking). The missing piece is the tablet. Something to take with when I walk away from both. Something I can read on the bus, or curl up in a chair with.

    Yes I have a stack of PDA's in my junk drawer. I read quite a bit on a Palm III and I'm up to watching vids on the bus on my PalmOne LiveDrive. It's not the same. I can't sit outside and read (can't see the screen in direct light) and I still end up carrying a notebook and killing trees to print RFC's (laser double-sided, 2-up... I don't need back problems as well as getting stoned by tree huggers)

    Is it a plot by the paper companies? (Or ink/toner sellers?) This is what's keeping paper alive. It's all these reviewers that complain that this tablet is a little wimpy on the processor or that tablet won't replace a laptop. Duh! Not the point. Charging $2k plus ain't going to help either. Let's take a big step back, and work on good old hirez, black and white text folks, you know, like in every best selling book, manual and most all newspapers. Then we can go WiFi and bluetooth keyboards and the mess.

    Am I alone here?