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| 12/21/2004 8:22:19 PM | tabletpcHome |
Launched as the notebook of the future, the Tablet PC has been both hailed and derided. Richard Baguley reports on his experiences living with one.
It's tempting to think of a Tablet PC as a notebook without a keyboard, but this would be missing the point. The idea is not to simply write on the screen using the stylus and then immediately convert handwriting to text: Instead, you write on the screen and work with the handwritten text, which Microsoft refers to as "Ink."
However, very few other applications are Ink enabled. Microsoft provides a program for viewing Journal entries on a conventional PC; but you can't edit the documents, and any handwriting recognition has to be done on the Tablet PC. I found the OS's built-in handwriting recognition to be rather inaccurate.
In the end, I decided not to keep using the Tablet PC. I work with words for a living, and the Tablet PC's handwriting features didn't make manipulating these words any more convenient.
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