HP wants to sell you a Tablet PC
We always give OEMs a hard time for not trying to promote their Tablet PCs to the consumer so when they do so it's only fair to give them a plug. HP wants to sell you a 2710p and have produced a nice video to help do so. Kudos to you, HP.
My tc1100 finally died yesterday. I swear they will nonetheless have to pry it from my cold dead hands. All of HP's offerings are notebooks which swivel. And 1.1 inches thin-give me a break. By now we should have a 1/4" thick tablet-think i phone but with tc1100's length and width. Til then its motion or maybe an Air as the lightweight backup.Ugh!
Posted by: Bill | February 07, 2008 at 04:45 PM
Bill, you may want to have a look at the fuji 1620.
Posted by: B | February 07, 2008 at 05:44 PM
I never understand why some of the coolest gadgets never get promoted.
Posted by: James A. Morman | February 07, 2008 at 06:10 PM
Is it just me or did they show a TC1100 near the end of the video (the "HP Night Light" frame)? Why would they show a long-discontinued (and greatly missed) model in a promotional video for the 2710p? I still think of the TC1100 as one of the ultimate tablet form factors and wish they would bring it back.
Posted by: FlyingShawn | February 07, 2008 at 11:18 PM
Sure looked like a TC1100 to me, I'm still using mine and there doesn't look like a real replacement in sight. It's still pretty usable with Vista and Onenote 2007 but they're times I wish it had a little more power to multitask smoother.
Posted by: Will | February 08, 2008 at 07:33 AM
A warning: be careful about buying a Tablet to use ink in Office 2007.
There are a number of people unable to use inking in Office 2007 on their tablets and Microsoft is not responding. This applies for both XP Tablet and Vista, and a variety of hardware. It's an Office problem because inking works elsewhere (input panel, OneNote) -- just not Word or PowerPoint. It's frustrating because it significantly reduces the utility of the tablet for some of us.
So be careful before purchasing--if your only purpose is to ink in Word/PowerPoint like mine was, you could have trouble, and no (free) help from MS to deal with *their* bug.
Posted by: kati42 | February 08, 2008 at 12:42 PM
stupid hp !!!
tc1100 is the best form for tablet pc
i agree james
"I still think of the TC1100 as one of the ultimate tablet form factors and wish they would bring it back"
Posted by: ken | February 13, 2008 at 05:18 PM