Talk:Tablet PC
From Academic Kids
In the current implementation of Tablet PC, the change is in software sense more than in hardware.
Digitizer is the single only most important component of Tablet PC. Other hardware features such as rotatable screen, hardware button are often optional.
There are a lot of touch screen technology used in PC monitor before, but none of it is called Tablet PC. Why?
Tablet PC is more than a Laptop computer plus a stylus. Microsoft really brings much change in Tablet PC Edition of Windows XP. The new OS creates the new kind of object called ink, and defines its corresponding behaviors including recognition. It ensure that user can finish all kinds of operation without keyboard.
So when we talk about Tablet PC, we inevitablely see one that use the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
Maybe sooner or later we will get Linux powered Tablet PC, who knows?
See http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,112743,00.asp for the first Linux tablet. Also, Linux can run on most tablets with digitizer support. However they all lack many of the nicities that make tablets usable under Windows. -- Tyler Colbert
