OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #10
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Marc Orchant and James Kendrick are back with a look at new Tablet PCs that were announced at the CES in Las Vegas recently. Congratulations are passed out for all the newly inducted Microsoft MVPs in the Tablet PC category! Joining Marc in this group are Tracy Hooten, Josh Einstein, Craig Pringle and Thorsten Koth. Is this now the only podcast by two MVPs? James gives us a rundown on the Tablet PC user's meetup in Vegas and we discuss who was missing at CES. What Tablet PCs will run Vista? Listen and find out. Marc wanted to know about the DualCor cPC that James had a good look at in Vegas. How cheap will Gateway go with the Convertible Notebook? We round out the show with a look at how the Palm Treo 700w can work with the Tablet PC.
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Special thanks to Tiedye Keith for the great song "Vulnerable" with vocals by Tony Lindsay of Santana.
Great show guys - it's good to hear all the CES news.
You ask for ideas on things to discuss/people to interview so how about the following:
I've always said that the UK is a bit technophobic and the slow rate of Tablet adoption/lack of availablity at sensible prices seems to confirm this. The UK doesn't have the likes of Best Buy etc. only PC World which people still don't take too seriously (they also only have 1 Tablet available where the only mention of Tablet is the name of the OS edition). How about some kind of interview going in to what MS/OEMs are trying to do to increase Tablet awareness and sales OUTSIDE of the US.
Most Tablet brands in the UK are only available through resellers (which will normally involve a price hike due to the reseller getting their cut) so we need more direct OEM presences outside the US.
What do you think?
Posted by: Colin Walker | January 16, 2006 at 01:14 AM
Good idea Colin. I will try and see if OEMs or MS will tell me what they are doing to increase Tablet awareness outside the US. I would not be surprised if they won't talk about it, though. Thanks for listening!
Posted by: jk | January 16, 2006 at 08:49 AM
I think you may be right that they may not discuss it but at least the question will have been asked. Thanks.
Posted by: Colin Walker | January 16, 2006 at 09:13 AM
Hey Guys,
On the only show that is hosted by two MS MVP's, you are not (to my knowledge) the only show hosted by 100% MS MVPs as there is www.sqldownunder.com (the subject isn't good, MS SQL (why you use that over Progress (www.progress.com) is got me beat (but I am bias)) but the host is an MS MVP and it normally (haven't checked each show) has a co-host/guest that is also a MS MVP.
Congrats again though guys on your MVP's.
Molly
http://www.mollyzine.com
Posted by: Phillip Molly Malone | January 16, 2006 at 06:04 PM
Hi Folks,
Another one with 2 x MVPs is the ASP.NET podcast with Wally McClure and Paul Glavich.
Regards,
Greg
Posted by: Greg Low | January 27, 2006 at 05:23 AM
Hi guys... just got around to listening to the podcast and I'm wondering about that sub-$1000 GW deal -- can you point me in the right direction?
Posted by: Chris Brandt | February 09, 2006 at 04:55 PM