Welcome back to the Tablet!
Back in June I handed my TC 1100 Tablet back to the project I was working on and wrote a farewell blog article where I wrote up my on off love affair with Tablet PC computing. In that article I concluded that a Tablet did not really meet my needs a home worker. Well as time has progressed I have missed the Tablet more and more, and eventually a great deal on eBay offer seduced me and I now have an older TC1000 with 768MB of memory and a cheap TDK PC Card Bluetooth adapter. So what changed my mind:
- I realised that I loved the slate format but hated the keyboard on the TC1*, and that all of the usage scenarios were slate format ones. I had been trying to use my Tablet before in a multi-purpose role, I don’t do that now I have a range of machines that I use for specific purposes. For example, almost all of my writing, evaluation and analysis work is done at my desk using my three monitor setup driving 2 Windows 2003 servers. All of my company mobile working needs I use a IBM T40 …