Everyone's raving about them. I don't know about you, but I drop every piece of portable technology I own. Regularly. My phone and my Pocket PC to name but two. Now, notebook PC's are portable but they don't get used on the move, you don't walk about your office typing away on your notebook. You get it out of it's bag, put it on your desk and type, then you put it back in the bag.
Tablet PC's, on the other hand, will walk about with you as you move from meeting to meeting, there's no grab handle, you just have to hold it on your forearm or something as you walk about. I envisage millions in insurance claims and lost productivty as people start dropping them all over the shop. Then where will you be when you need to transpose or email a colleague some urgent meeting notes when your Tablet PC's screen is in pieces? Eh?
Picture this scene nearby a coffee machine:-
Tablet PC's, on the other hand, will walk about with you as you move from meeting to meeting, there's no grab handle, you just have to hold it on your forearm or something as you walk about. I envisage millions in insurance claims and lost productivty as people start dropping them all over the shop. Then where will you be when you need to transpose or email a colleague some urgent meeting notes when your Tablet PC's screen is in pieces? Eh?
Picture this scene nearby a coffee machine:-
Dude at coffee machine : Hey Corridor Warrior Dude, did you get that file I sent you?Get the picture? Just wait, you'll see I'm right.
Corridor Warrior - No, man. Wait I'll check my inbox now. [Glibly taps away at his Tablet PC screen.]
Coffee Dude : Hey man, that's way cool!
CW: Yeah, it's my new Tablet PC, does it rock or what?
Coffee Dude : Total. That's the max.
CW : Yeah, I got your email man, thanks. I'm sure to breeze that board presentation now man, thanks.
Coffee Dude : No probs dude.
[Suddenly a man in a hurry rushes towards CW & Dude, apparently he's left his presentation on his old notebook PC]
CW : Hey watch out!
Notebook Guy : Shit, Oops. [Bumps into CW, Tablet PC Crashes to the floor]
CW : Oh No!, I'm done for. How will I deliver my presentation now?
Notebook Guy :[Smugly] Hey man I'm sorry, you can borrow my old beaten up notebook when I'm finished my presentation.
CW: [ Sobbing] Oh no. I'm totally screwed, everything I've been working on is on that Tablet PC. Now I'll have to send it away for repair and you know how unlikely I'll be to get it back without the hard disk having been nuked. Shit. I may as well quit.
Coffee Dude : Hey, that Tablet PC's not as cool as I first thought. Hmmm. [Walks off leaving CW inconsolable]