Dell Taking Some Heat For Being Sans Tablet PC

With the Lenovo official announcement today about the X41 Thinkpad Tablet PC, it seems Dell is taking some heat for not being in the Tablet PC game. Ed Bott points to this blog entry from Robert McLaws sending a big slap Dell's way. Here's a quote:

One of the main reasons the Tablet business is so small is because you're not playing in it yet. Wake up and smell the consumers! You guys are the #1 marketer to the average computing consumer.

Marc Orchant over at Tablet PC Weblogs posts about this as well, referencing the Seattle Post Intelligencer article from Todd Bishop I linked to in a previous post.

Is the heat on in Texas? It will be interesting to see. One thing is for certain. The Thinkpad Tablet PC will keep the pressure turned up a bit.

Now, if it only had a higher resolution screen.