Today, I read a section of PC world magazine about various flops in the technology world through out time. Most I agreed with, like the Cuecat, MS Bob, ect.
But, one, I did not agree with at all.
Pen computing.
As an IT guy, I work with a few businesses, and 100% of them have at least some tablet pcs or other pen computing devices.
All the businesses who have pen computing devices love them, and many ( such as a doctors office) could not operate without them.
I wonder how much of the PC World article is operating from the premise that tablet/pen computing caters more to a vertical market than the general public, hence its slower adoption by most users.
Some of the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X series that function as both tablets and laptops are pretty slick devices in their own right.
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I wonder how much of the PC World article is operating from the premise that tablet/pen computing caters more to a vertical market than the general public, hence its slower adoption by most users.
Some of the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X series that function as both tablets and laptops are pretty slick devices in their own right.
The main reason why most (end users) people don't have tablets is because most people don't know that they exist, what they are. Market them a little more and more people will buy.
Multitouch devices along with better multitouch oses will make tablet pcs more popular.
But i agree with the original poster that touch screens are everywhere. UPS, Fedex, etc companies all use touch devices.
It seems that touch screens are ideal in super portable situations, where the device usually is being used without a desk. Once you are on a desk a mouse/laptop touchpad is almost easier to use versus reaching over a screen to touch it.
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I think right now the main issue with pen computing is that the dirvers arn't standard, and often require weird sidesteps to install them. It took me 16 hours to reinstall the drivers on my Dell XT, because I kept running into issues. Not to mention that there are often TONs of drivers for tablets. I think I counted ~60 for my Tosh M400.
Both my XT and M400 suffer from performance problems. The drivers don't seem to be very well written, and as a result crashes and the like can be common. The Dell XT has had problems with the digitizer software ever since it came out. Altough it never gets nearly as bad as a BSOD, it wasn't uncommon for me to have to restart due to the digitizer driver crashing. Now that I run Win7, I do not have these issues.... because I never reinstalled the Ntrig driver.
I'm [s]not even[/s] going to get into the M400's problems. What a $2,000 piece of crap. Toshiba laptops have the worst build quality I have ever seen. I have never taken my M400 out of the house and woudl use it for light web browsing, and it is falling apart! I had to slice ope the connector on the AC adapter and resolder a connection because one day one of the wires simply came unsoldered from the connector. I'm not even going to go into the fact that it will not boot off any optical drives except for "Toshiba" branded (read: $$$$), and about how the screen bezel has a flaw where dust can get inside easily.
tl;dr: Although the concept is nice, tablets have a long way to go. For those who notice that these tablets are a few generations back, I also have heard of similar experiences with current generation tablets (XT2).
Supposedly, Windows 7 has more gesture support, compatibility, etc. for pen computing. I still believe the whole tech sector is a dying breed. I'll stick to my mouse.
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Supposedly, Windows 7 has more gesture support, compatibility, etc. for pen computing. I still believe the whole tech sector is a dying breed. I'll stick to my mouse.
Yea thats what i hear. Im using windows 7 right now, and love it. On a regular laptop so i have no idea what these touch features are.
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Yea thats what i hear. Im using windows 7 right now, and love it. On a regular laptop so i have no idea what these touch features are.
I have 7 on one of my tablets (My XT) (as well as all my other comps, minus the other tablet). It just has better support for touch. Nothing terribly significant, I think.
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