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44 PEN COMPUTING MAGAZINE July 2002 www.pencomputing.com
First Look: Acer TravelMate TM100 with
O Edition n June 4th and 5th, a small
group of journalists participated
at a Microsoft Tablet
PC Reviewer’s Conference in
Seattle. Although Microsoft
has been promoting the
Tablet PC concept for almost two years,
this was the first time that the press was
given working Tablet PC prototypes with
beta versions of the Tablet PC software.
The actual hardware/software combination
consisted of an Acer TravelMate
TM100 “convertible” notebook loaded with
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
Pen Computing has reported in detail
on the Tablet PC concept in the July 2001
issue and then again in a special Tablet PC
insert in our May 2002 issue. During that
time the Tablet PC has undergone many
changes and revisions. What initially began,
at least in my opinion, as another attempt
to create a true slate with an optional
external keyboard morphed into
something different, a mobile computing
device that may come in different forms
and shapes, and whose primary focus is
the use of “ink” as a new data type. There
has been significant discussion among the
staff of Pen Computing about the…