Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Oct 2009 20:33 UTC
Ah, the tablet computer. For over two decades now have companies tried to get the public to buy the darn things, and yet, despite all the efforts, promises, analysts, and even personal involvement by Bill Gates, they simply never took off. Recently, the tablet has seen renewed attention - but will they succeed now?
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Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Toshiba all have support for A and C right now. My next computer is going to be a convertable tablet: tablet form for graphics design courses and taking notes in all courses, laptop form for computer science courses in which I have to write code (alas, C++ is made even more difficult than it has to be by writing it out longhand). I will pay $1200 for this -- or $1000 even plus the extra-long super-duper warranty. The only downside? At this cost, their screens are universally 10.4 or 12.1 inch.
B (multitouch) is gimmicky at best right now, but should be universally supported soon, so if that's a must-have, I'd wait a year or two.