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06.29.05
Gates Still Roots for Tablet PCs
After failing to break into the mainstream of computing, the
Tablet PC might have been written off by many, but it still
has at least one strong supporter. Bill Gates, chairman and
chief software architect of Microsoft, said Monday that he still
believes in the form-factor and repeated a prediction that,
with better hardware and software, it could still dominate traditional
laptop PCs.
Gates showed prototype Tablet PCs at the Comdex show in Las
Vegas in 2001--a year ahead of their 2002 launch--and at the
show said in a statement, "It's a PC that is virtually
without limits and within five years I predict it will be
the most popular form of PC sold in America."
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HP Compaq TC4200 Tablet PC
ATTENDING Microsoft's Asia-Pacific launch of its Windows XP
Tablet PC in Singapore in 2002, I got a fair idea of how much
faith Bill Gates and his team had in pen-based computing.
After all, they were riding on the back of dismal failures such
as Apple's Newton.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet Legitimizes the Tablet PC Market
The entry of Lenovo's ThinkPad notebook brand into the tablet
PC market lends credibility to tablet PCs as a platform. The
ThinkPad X41 Tablet derives features and accessories from ThinkPad's
mainstream X-series notebooks, such as docking stations, and
it is compatible with ThinkPad X41 notebooks and the T43 and
R52 integrated-graphics models. Hewlett-Packard (HP) used a
similar strategy when it derived its TC4200 convertible tablet
PC from its NC4200 notebook.
However, Lenovo's ThinkPad X41 Tablet is nearly 20 percent lighter
than the TC4200 and includes a fingerprint reader, which eliminates
the need to enter a password. This last feature is crucial for
walking workers who need to access their systems quickly. Fujitsu,
Toshiba, Gateway and Motion Computing (whose tablets are also
sold through Gateway and Dell) have offered tablet PC designs
for several years, but all are specialized one-off designs.
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Wellington Tablet PC User Group
A new user group is being organised and invites all interested
parties for its first meeting in Wellington. The Wellington
Tablet PC User Group (TUG) aims to educate the user community,
facilitate the dissemination of information from vendors to
the community and to provide a forum for the sharing of information
between peers.
Wellington TUG meetings are open to all who would like to attend.
The topics covered should be of particular interest to Tablet
PC users, those considering the Tablet PC platform, Developers,
IT Professionals and those interested in technology.
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