posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:19 AM
by
paul
Tablet PC amazes
The Tablet PC launched on November 7, 2002 at the Ambassador Theatre in NYC, I still have the black bag with all the swag. We all got a commemorative 32meg USB drive, a Tablet PC cap and t-shirt. Bill was there with the actor Rob Lowe and all the demos worked flawlessly on the Broadway stage.
It’s over two years now and the Tablet PC still amazes us, to hear grown men and woman “owing and ahing” in this age of technical miracles has to mean something. Everything about the Tablet PC is impressive, from the new way to take notes to the sleek light weight design.
The Tablet PC
SDK 1.7 can be downloaded today and will be included in
Visual Studio 2005 so
developers can create ink enabled
applications. There are now a few hundred Tablet PC apps, but look for that number to increase as there definitely is great interest in the developer community.
At our N3UG meeting last night, Frank La Vine held us spellbound despite the fact that we knew this magicians trick, but like kids at a performance we just had to see it again! We had one Tablet PC in the audience and most of us knew the brands and the specks of each model, so it was a great interactive discussion. Miguel stood up at the end and told Frank “you know this meeting is going to cost me $2500”!
The consensus in the room was that the Toshiba models with the 1400x1050 screen resolution were the best of breed. Acer and HP also received good anecdotal reviews, but the big question is why has the adoption of the Tablet PC been sooo slow?
Of all the conferences I attended last year only at Speech TEK did I see as many as ten Tablet PC’s in the room. The Apple Powerbooks cost more and have been more prevalent at most of the industry gatherings I have attended lately.
So where is the buzz? Who are the influencers? I’d love to be blogging on a Tablet PC moving about un-tethered in this age of technical miracles making my mark!