I've given Microsoft's new "offering", the Tablet PC, almost exactly no thought whatsoever. I don't want a box that expects me to write crap on it by hand for two reasons: (1) my handwriting suXors hard, and (2) I type significantly faster than I write. A box that expects to use handwriting (a.k.a. "ink") as the primary input is doomed as far as targeting me as a consumer. (That goes for Palms too, by the bye. I keep buying them because I like gadgets, but I keep not using them. My RIM interactive pager, though, has a keyboard and I use the damned thing fifty times a day.)

Timothy Dyck, publishing in eWeek, takes a similarly dim view of the things.