Story: Tablet PCs on slow dissolve

Posted by: David Wright (Monday 7 June 2004, 3:12 PM)

The main problem with Tablet PC's at the moment is they are not powerful enough.

My car has a touchscreen system for the nav syste/radio/air con and it is simple to use. It is much more intuitive to point at the screen than to roll a mouse around the desk.

I am looking at a replacement for my laptop, it is getting old and a little bit slow, so I am looking for something new, around 2,8-3,0Ghz or an AMD64 at a stretch. Also, the screen resolution of the old notebook isn't good enough, it is only 1024x768.

I am not too worried about battery life, I need a machine that is portable, will work for a few minutes without the mains, but spends 99.9% of its time plugged in.

A "convertible" (wasn't that what IBM called their first portables?) would be, for me, the best solution, I can type much faster than I can write, but would like the ability to point at things on the screen.

Show me an AMD64 3000+ convertible with a 1600x900 display, 512Mb RAM and a DVD drive and I'll buy it...