Gadgetopia

Rosetta Tablet PC ::: Inspiration anytime, anywhere: Tablet PC prices are dropping. This is the cheapest one on the market right now at $1,499.

Lycoris Desktop/LX: This is a Linux company that we mentioned once before. They've built a Linux distribution for the Tablet PC: "Desktop/LX Tablet Edition builds on the proven foundation of Desktop/LX and features enhancements tailored specifically fo the Tablet PC platform"

Personal Communication Assistant: Supposedly the world's smallest Tablet PC at 9" x 7.25".

Windows Powered Smart Display: Home Page: Here's something that I haven't understood until now: what I think is a Tablet PC, may just be a Smart Display. Tablet PCs are complete machines processor, RAM, hard drive, etc. A PC with a Smart Display, just has a remote monitor. All ...

8 reasons to check out a Tablet PC: Solid article about why you should buy a Tablet PC. "Some companies prohibit or discourage people from using notebook PCs in meetings. Why? Because the laptop screen creates a barrier of sorts between the user and the speaker. You lose eye contact ...

Microsoft blamed for Tablet PC steep sales decline "This is another classic case of IT firms thinking they know what technology people will like, and failing to take off the blinkers. Canalys said that sales represent a fraction of notebook sales, and claims Microsoft and its hardware partners need to ...

Linux tablet PC breaks $1,000 barrier: A tablet PC running Lycoris for $999. The device runs on a 1GHz Antaur processor from Via Technologies, includes a 30GB hard drive and uses a customized version of the open-source Linux operating system put together by Lycoris, a Seattle-area company that specializes in ...

101 Reasons Not To Get A Tablet PC: Some of these are myths ("WiFi is a bubble", "It doesn't come with Linux"), some are true ("It's not made by Apple"), some are personal preferences ("They're ugly"), and some are reflections of human fallibility ("I'm afraid it will get stolen", "I ...

Xplore Technologies Corp. - The iX104: If you think Tablet PCs are for wussies, then take a look at this one. Check out the environmental specs it will survive a 4-foot drop onto concrete or immersion in water for up to 30 minutes. I dare someone to set up ...

Acer TravelMate 250PE: Acer (now there's a name I thought I'd never hear again) has a laptop with pen functionality you can write on the screen like a Tablet PC. The screen has little back-support legs so it doesn't top over when you push on it. "The TravelMate 250PE ...

Does Your Code Think In Ink? is a contest to develop your best PowerToy for the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. A Tablet PC is not even required to enter. "The Tablet PC Platform SDK application development can be done on a standard Windows XP desktop. The SDK provides the ...

Digital Hubris: Apple's Tablet Computer Might Finally Be That Link Between Your PC and TV "Real computers have keyboards," Steve has said a zillion times, and he'll mean it right up to the moment he changes his mind. That moment appears to be coming soon. Quanta, the Taiwanese company that ...

Welcome to TDV Vison: An 8.4" screen is awfully small, but so is the price: $799. Prices are falling awfully fast in this space. "The V800XPT is an 8.4-inch LCD PC and notebook in one product. It features an external USB keyboard module, an external USB optical drive, a Transmeta ...

Amid all the hoopla surrounding Apple's new iPhone, another newly introduced Apple-related item hasn't received much press; Axiotron and Other World Computing (OWC) introduced the ModBook, the first tablet Mac portable. It sounds like the ModBook is exactly what the name implies; a Modded MacBook. According to Axiotron, they provide ...

Leszynski Group - Tablet PC Downloads - inTegrate: Are you a VB developers, frustrated that tools like Denim are only available for Web interfaces? Never fear, inTegrate does the same thing for windowed apps. It plugs into Visual Studio and lets you "draw" controls that it will put on your ...

Aureole HP: Despite the annoying Flash, this is an interesting bit at HP about a 42-foot wine tower at the Aureole restuarant at the Mandalay Bay casino in Vegas. With 10,000 bottles of wine, the list got a little long, so the hotel implemented it using Tablet PCs to help ...

Computers hang up SBA loans: The Small Business Administration "upgraded" their computer system last December. Because of the new computer system, paperwork that once took 30 minutes now takes hours, workers for the SBA say. The network that connects inspectors with their offices is frequently down. And workers in the ...

A few weeks ago, I read a good article on paper prototyping over at Jakob Nielsen's site. And then the other day, I wrote a bit about how overall application design and interface was more of an influence on an app's success than the actual code behind it. So, in ...

Prompted by Microsoft's generosity, I've started reading e-books, and I think I'm addicted. I read a book last year called "The Social Life of Information" which put forth all sorts of reasons why e-books weren't going to work. I agreed with it then, but after actually trying it, I'm hooked. ...