OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #19
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Marc Orchant and James Kendrick talk about the Tablet PC news of the week in this episode of OnTheRun with Tablet PCs. TEO 3.0 is in beta! Video reviews and screencasts have erupted in the Tabletscape and we point out a few of the most recent ones. Marc tells us why the Gateway M280 is a very nice Tablet PC and James talks about the TabletKiosk eo UMPC. Is a new ThinkPad Tablet PC coming? Loren Heiny puts the Tablet OS on an iMac, really. Marc explains why he is not impressed with the OQO he is using– will a UMPC fill his needs?
Notes of interest from the show:
Video review of Office 2007 on the Tablet PC
Video review of the TabletKiosk eo V7110 UMPC
Video review of the Gateway M280
Video review of the Motion LS800
Enjoy the show and let us know what you think.
Special thanks to Tiedye Keith for the great song "Vulnerable" with vocals by Tony Lindsay of Santana.
I agree with Marc in the podcast, if Apple made an iTablet that could dual boot (such as with Vista), it would become my number one choice of a Tablet.
Posted by: Loren | April 09, 2006 at 09:24 PM
Hmmm, I'm getting a 404 on the link guys. I'll try again later.
Posted by: Colin Walker | April 10, 2006 at 12:39 AM
Looks like Libsyn was having problems last night but it's working OK for me now.
Posted by: jk | April 10, 2006 at 09:26 AM
Another great show guys. Thanks for all the kind words. And good news, I just got Outlook 2007 working.
Posted by: Josh Einstein | April 11, 2006 at 03:11 AM
Re: your comments about the OQO. You may have mentioned this earlier, but the OQO was actually first "announced" four years ago (probably longer, I lose track), and there was nothing but a fancy Flash-run website for a long, long time. But, to the point: the first publicity about the OQO was that it was going to be faster, more versatile and more connectable, have more memory than the product which finally appeared, AND cost about $1000-$1100 (OQO's estimate, not mine). It was a far cry from what eventually appeared. I put off buying a notebook for almost a year because of the "impending availability" of the OQO, and finally bought a Dell X200 (tablets weren't up to snuff back then, IMHO) about two years before the OQO 1.0 was spec'ed out. I agree with you whole-heartedly, the OQO is to little for too much, although the original vision would have been awesome. At this point, I'm saving up for a real tablet, it just won't be that one (I just wish they hadn't discontinued the HP 1100TC, portability [read: lightweight] is the killer feature for me).
Posted by: Cameron Dorey | April 11, 2006 at 11:21 AM
Thanks for the feedback. I just sent my impressions of the OQO back to the coompany - haven't heard a response from them. I know a few other reviews have come out that all say essentially the same thing - "cool idea but too much money".
Josh - you rock!
Posted by: Marc Orchant | April 12, 2006 at 10:56 AM