I love the TabletPC. One reason is that, like many writers, I have an abiding love for the physical act of putting pen to paper (or, for the past 18 months, pen to screen). I have a few "nice" pens, a couple Mont Blancs, two Watermans, and I use those for writing letters, not emails, to friends and family. I write my journal with a Waterman. Written expression need not be just in the choice of words, it can be in the looseness of the stroke -- the precision of the lettering -- the addition of arrows and position
Also, the Tablet is a software developers dream. The Tablet PC is proof of the .NET strategy. Ink is a low-level, first-class OS object. It never lags behind a pen moving at full speed. And yet, all ink capabilities are exposed via a clean, well-designed OO api. You can begin coding against the ink API in [minutes]{.underline}. Yet, the [things]{.underline} you can do with the ink are limited only by your creativity.
Need I point out that there will be 1,000,000 Tablet PCs in the field soon and yet there is virtually [no]{.underline} competition for those who would sell software to Tablet PC owners? For those who dream of opportunity in the software field, the Tablet PC should be embraced. A powerful, easy-to-use SDK, a market unserved and a form-factor which [begs for]{.underline} new applications.
What's not to love?
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