TDavid's Tablet PC Report 241 Days In

TDavid has been running a series of reports about his Tablet PC usage and he brings us an intriguing new entry after using his Motion 1400 for 241 days.

There's some great info here about his usage in both work and play, especially about how he and his family used the Tablet PC on their recent vacation. There's also some complaints and discussion of bumps along the way, especially dealing with Motion's plan to phase out support at the end of 2007 for the M1400. That and HP's recently announced phase out of the TC1100 point to how fast things are moving (and at the same time slow-Vista, which will drive hardware to a great extent, won't be clearly seen until the end of 2006 and I'm betting that significant hardware changes will happen then and even more so in 2007.)

Here's an excerpt that I think is telling:

As I approach 250 days of tablet ownership, I still use the machine every day for business and most days for pleasure. My favorite activities are (in no particular order): reading and annotating digital magazines via Zinio, making handwritten notes in OneNote (I use the Tablet for notetaking from phone calls and meetings) , snipping the occasional blog entry picture using the snipping tool, and utilyzing for making exciting, interactive sales presentations to clients. I still believe that tablets are an essential tool for salespeople and believe it has helped me in some sales situations getting attention from the prospect. For that reason, it remains worth the expensive price tag.

But if you aren’t in sales? Not in a business where you attend many meetings or take lots of notes? Not an artist? Well, I still can’t make a good case for buying a tablet in that case.

Here's the link to his post. Well worth the read.