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Attention Tablet PC enthusiasts: If you are looking for your own Tablet Guy, check Tablet PC Buzz.com . Dennis is running a contest over there. The contests will pickup shortly after the judges are picked.

The secret life of an MS Author: Motion LE 1600 Tablet

Pete Wright, an author who specializes on Microsoft technologies, writes about the slow romance that has been developing between he and the slate Tablet PC – in particular, Motion Computing’s LE1600

This will definitely be a blog to follow.

Where are you and others getting your Tablet PC news?

What sites, blogs, search engines, etc do you use to keep caught up on Tablet PC news?

Tablet PC Buyer’s Guide

Barry Doyle does another fine job on his reviews, this time with a very thorough Tablet PC Buyer’s Guide. Well worth the read if you are considering a tablet pc purchase.

Via Warner

TC1100 = the perfect egg

Got to love this from Lyn and Olga – TC1100 Tablet PC = the perfect egg

the TC1100 is like an egg: the perfect food. Just like an egg, the TC1100 integrates the keyboard (the white) with the slate part (the yolk) in a perfect union.

 

 

Acer C200 reviewed on TabletPCCorner.net

HPClean has a great review with a lot of pictures and a video of the new Acer C200. I believe this is the first review of the C200 that I’ve seen.

The Tabletology Show

OnTheRun with Tablet PCs Podcast features Lyn and Olga  – fantastic show….hmm the space between the tablet screen and the monitor – I guess that is the place where the ink gets recognized.

InformationWeek > Tablet PCs: Stuck In A Niche

Aaron Ricadela of Information Week has just published a fairly accurate “state of the Tablet PC” article . I was actually pretty impressed with the article.

Aaron does a pretty decent job in covering the latest tablet pc initiatives, such as touch screens, summarizing the struggles, as well as point to where Vista will help bring some of this together.

Sales of the pen-based computers, which let users write text or issue commands with an electronic stylus, are set to increase 88% this year to 1.2 million units, according to market researcher IDC. Yet they’ll remain just 2% of the overall notebook market.

I loved this quote from Michael Byrd,  Baylor Healthcare Systems corporate director of technology integration:

Baylor is budgeting $1.5 million to $3 million for tablet PC hardware and software development during the fiscal year that ends next June, Byrd says. But some hospitals may continue to avoid tablet PCs unless their weight drops to less than a pound and their price to less than $1,000. If they do, “that’s when adoption will explode, especially in health care,” Byrd predicts. Bundled with accessories and preloaded software, tablets from Motion Computing can run $2,500 to $3,000, Byrd says.

It is going to take time to get to that price point and weight, but we’ll get there. The good thing that this article shows is that Microsoft is still fully behind the tablet pc, as well as the OEM’s.

I walked away from the article thinking – the OEM’s have recognized issues and tackling them: are there challenges? you bet. Stuck in a niche? no…we are just about to hit the prime time.

 

Why techies are leading the back-to-paper movement

Fascinating article by Douglas Johnston at Dave Gray’s blog on the low-tech, analog revolution. (via Three Things Today)

Dave has mentioned the back-to-paper revolution here, and he’s right. Strangely enough, it’s mainly a revolt of tech lovers against their favourite toys, junkies eschewing their drug of choice. It’s painful, it’s heart-wrenching, it flies in the face of our own self-identities, and it makes all our high-tech podium-thumping and evangelising suddenly look hollow.

Trading away the handhelds, tablet PCs and online productivity tools for pens, planners, cards and Moleskines is a leap of faith, like toppling a regime in the hope that the next one will somehow be more benevolent, more attuned to your needs, and offer greater opportunities. It may not, and you may find yourself before the firing line, remembering with fondness the evils of yesterday.

Happy shopping!