'IBM Develops ThinkPad Tablet PC'

[BigWarpGuy]

"IBM is readying a ThinkPad laptop that features a rotating screen designed to turn the machine into a tablet computer, according to documents from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. .... "

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1822171,00.asp

Do you think the Thinpad tablet pc will go far (be succesful?)?

Tablet PCs and the Adoption Blues
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1853698,00.asp
Microsoft's Tablet PC Odyssey
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1822172,00.asp
Is Microsoft Downsizing the Tablet PC?
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1822173,00.asp
Microsoft Provides Hotfix for Tablet PC Leak
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1834576,00.asp
Tablet PC Is Stronger Than Predictions Suggest
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1853699,00.asp

some good and bad news about tablet pc's.

[dokein]

Bill Gates still believes they will survive, so I guess that says something.

[eigh]

bill gates says i only need 192 kilobits of hd space.




i think thats the right ammount

[BigWarpGuy]

There is a video at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu that shows Bill Gates saying that OS/2 is the operating system of the future.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/multimedia/v ... bgates.zip

[BigWarpGuy]

I had a link to the wrong video.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/multimedia/w ... ll_os2.zip
Here is the right one. I apologize for anh inconvenience it might have caused.

[brainpicker]

Do you think the Thinpad tablet pc will go far (be succesful?)?

Only if they can make more than a dozen a month, then get them through customs in less than a month, and NOT ship them via UPS such that Florida customers have their tablets shipped to Alaska (and then vanish)!

Mine went to Alaska from Louisville on Tuesday... then disappeared inot the great white north.

Yak