Jun 172004

I’m back in business with my new Tablet PC. I couldn’t be happier with my choice of hardware too.

I went with the Electrovaya SC-2000 which has outstanding battery life and packs enough power and large enough screen into a 3lb slate form factor.
So now that my system is back together I can get back to what’s really important… Tablet PC development for Einstein Technologies.

As a side note, I’ve finally switched away from Internet Explorer as my default browser. I read a whole bunch of posts on Robert Scoble’s web log and Channel 9 forums that got me asking… "What benefit does IE have anymore?" The sad fact is none, really. It used to be that other browsers sucked at rendering bad web pages and IE was more tolerant. But now IE has been virtually untouched (except for a bunch of security patches) for years and Mozilla has gotten really good at rendering pages. IE doesn’t support nearly as many standards and has numerous rendering flaws that MS seems uninterested in fixing.

Oh well I’ve defended IE to the death but when the biggest feature on the horizon for IE is a download manager… it gets me thinking.

My life has been so disrupted by the loss of this Tablet PC it’s not even funny. I haven’t measured or anything but my productivity has dropped alot. And I’m not just saying that to pitch Tablet PC’s. I’ve become so reliant on that device that I literally sleep 4 more hours now that I don’t have it. In a way, you could say I have no reason to get up in the morning.

Seriously, I’ve gotten nothing done with Tablet Information Manager because I’ve been spending so much time visiting various tablet manufacturer’s web sites. I’m so confused right now. This is worse than when I first bought a tablet because at least then, CPU was a main influence but now they all have Centrino.

I’m considering (in no particular order):

Fujitsu Stylistic  (with Outdoor screen)
Motion M1400 (assuming they get back to me with a developer discount)
Electrovaya Scribbler (drool…… 9 hours of battery!!)
Toshiba M200 (only because I can walk into a store and walk out with it… I hate Toshiba tablets)

This really sucks. :(