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08.29.05
Tablet PC - Review Problems
 By
Nathan Weinberg
Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble notes a nice review of the IBM Thinkpad X41 Tablet
PC.
I've been itching to try out a Tablet for a while, and might have thought to buy
one when I bought my new laptop weeks ago, but I've never had a chance to try
one out. See, no matter which store I went to, their Tablet unit was broken and
missing the stylus.
People come into stores like CompUSA and J&R and just steal the stylus, to replace
the one they lost from their own Tablet, and sometimes even steal keys off the
keyboard. Worse, most of these stores attach one of those "beeper" alarms that
go off if someone tries to steal the unit, only they place it where it makes it
impossible to fold the Tablet into, well, a Tablet.
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If people can't try out a Tablet, how will they learn to buy a Tablet? Maybe stores
need to keep Tablets behind glass, like many do with PDAs and MP3 players, with
a nice sign that says "Ask us about our Tablet PC". Microsoft needs to realize
that Tablet PCs are never going to sell in decent numbers if customers can't see
what the big deal is.
Scoble keeps
talking about how great the Tablet PC is. Somebody let me know why, in the
city of New York, I can't find one that works.
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