Saturday, October 25, 2003

Tablet PCs: Thanks, But No Thanks -- 10:44 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The Register has an article about how tablet PC sales have been sluggish, thanks in part to the higher cost of Microsoft's tablet version of Windows. I really wonder what the market is for this device. It would seem to me that anything a tablet can do, a notebook can do better. Tablets seem like a PDA with a gland problem. Thanks Slashdot.

The Master comments: I know that Jerry Pournelle has a tablet PC that was supplied to him as a demo model. He seems to be quite taken by it, and uses it in cases where he needs something lighter than a notebook, but that has a reasonable screen for doing real work. He's done fiction writing on it, and I also know he's used it for email and other mundane tasks. So, I guess it has it's uses, but I'm still not going to plonk that kind of money down on a portable LCD. I'd rather get a more-power desktop, but that's just me :-)

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