[luau] Tablet PC

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Thanks for the info.  Here are some of my other observations:

1.  Just got back from a trip to Taiwan.  Almost every hardware 
manufacturer there, especially Acer and VIA, seems to be placing very 
high hopes for the tablet PC to sort of reinvigorate PC sales.  As such, 
they are very appreciative of Microsoft's effots (bad news).  Indeed, 
the hardware manufacturers in Taiwan are, collectively and individually, 
putting pressure on Taiwan government to drop the anti-trust suit.  HP 
also demonstrated a prototype tablet PC made by LG.

2.  I have heard that the tablet PC demonstrated by Microsoft does not 
have a "learning" capability.  Does anyone know if this is still true?

3.  LG started developing their Linux version of tablet PC in early 
2001.  I was wondering whether any else is also doing any work in this 
endeavor?


Jeff Zidek wrote:

>I actually got to use two of the demos for a couple of minutes each one
>from Acer and one from Compac. Both using windows XP for tablet PC. 
>Pretty impressive.  Even the hand writing recognition worked well.  The
>touch pen felt good as well.  My only complaint was the OS.  Too bad
>linux hasn't beat M$ to the punch. When I looked online I only saw beta
>models from LG that had linux on tablet.  Look like old Mike just might
>reap the financial gains from being first at the punch.
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>On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:21, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
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>>Does anyone think Microsoft's new tablet PC (to be officially released 
>>Nov. 14) has a good chance to succeed?
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