Pen May Be Mightier than Keyboard with ThinkPad X41
No keyboard, no mouse. Perhaps a simple pen can create a better UX. From Lenvo ...
"It's not as if IBM scoffed at the idea of a "tablet," or pen-based, portable computer. More than a year before, Big Blue had brought out a clever concoction called the ThinkPad TransNote. It combined the benefits of a notebook computer with a, um, paper notebook.
The main computer sat on the left flap of a faux-leather portfolio; on the right was an ordinary legal-size pad of paper that overlay a digitized writing tablet. When you wrote on the pad with a special pen, your scribbles appeared on the computer display.
I liked TransNote. But sales were soft, and IBM pulled the plug.
Now ThinkPad aficionados have another chance to see if the pen is mightier than the keyboard. The ThinkPad X41 that IBM is unveiling is the first ThinkPad to run Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet operating system. It's well worth considering if your job requires you to take lots of handwritten notes or do diagrams.
As with other Microsoft-based Tablet PCs, you can avoid a mouse and a physical keyboard in favor of a virtual onscreen keyboard and special pen." continued ... (Via Technology News)
"It's not as if IBM scoffed at the idea of a "tablet," or pen-based, portable computer. More than a year before, Big Blue had brought out a clever concoction called the ThinkPad TransNote. It combined the benefits of a notebook computer with a, um, paper notebook.
The main computer sat on the left flap of a faux-leather portfolio; on the right was an ordinary legal-size pad of paper that overlay a digitized writing tablet. When you wrote on the pad with a special pen, your scribbles appeared on the computer display.
I liked TransNote. But sales were soft, and IBM pulled the plug.
Now ThinkPad aficionados have another chance to see if the pen is mightier than the keyboard. The ThinkPad X41 that IBM is unveiling is the first ThinkPad to run Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet operating system. It's well worth considering if your job requires you to take lots of handwritten notes or do diagrams.
As with other Microsoft-based Tablet PCs, you can avoid a mouse and a physical keyboard in favor of a virtual onscreen keyboard and special pen." continued ... (Via Technology News)
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