Don't give up on us baby, who-o-oa

It seems that Omar Shahine is giving up his Tablet for another mobile PC. I don't understand Omar, what could be so attractive about saving your eyesight that would cause you to dump your Tablet?

Seriously though, it's an important piece of feedback for us on the team (at Microsoft, actually) to learn a) that people are switching away from our product(s); and b) why they switch. A lot has been said about why people switch OS's or why people switch browsers/ISPs, but I don't think much has been made of "why did you dump your Xbox for <console>", "why did you give up on your 'elite' keyboard" or "why did you dump your Tablet".

Thanks for the conciliatory note at the end Omar. There are a few models today that have really nice screens (e.g. Lenovo (IBM) X41, Motion's Le1600 with ViewAnywhere), but I understand your concern. I am glad that you at least considered replacing your m200 with another Tablet. You too should understand that there are people who greatly desire the thick plastic protective coating (e.g. me, when I bring a work Tablet home for the kids to play with) and might find the brighter screens too glare-prone the 85% of the time they're used indoors, under fluorescent lighting.  I truly am thankful for the variety of choices I have in the computing universe.

Readers: If you've read this far, you are a dedicated Tablet person.  If you've ever dumped a Tablet, or if you've never bought one, why? The Tablet OEMs do listen to feedback from us on the team, and any feedback you give now is likely to still be considered for the Vista wave of Tablets.

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• Anonymous
  September 12, 2005
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• Anonymous
  September 12, 2005
  I've been tempted to buy a TabletPC, but the main reasons not done has been:
  1. The cost: when will be available a cheap tablet PC for about $1000?.
  2. Too few models with too few variables in the specs.
  3. Big manufacturers (i.e. Dell) not selling/pushing to sell them. I'm no saying I would buy a Dell TabletPC, but I think if big players play the game, the play gets better.
  

• Anonymous
  September 12, 2005
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• Anonymous
  September 13, 2005
  Our organization buys everyone a notebook. We have never purchased a tablet:
  1. Too expensive price/performance comparison.
  2. Have to be 14.1" screen that does 1400x1050.
  3. We are standardized on HP. Not comfortable buying from Fujitsu or some of what I would consider "fringe" manufacturers.
  4. Not convinced the tablet would make any of our employees more efficient. Heck, I see MS employees all the time with their tablets - never see them using them any differently than I use my notebook.

• Anonymous
  September 13, 2005
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• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
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• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
  These are excellent comments, btw.
  Thank you all for sharing your experiences and I am in turn poking the User eXperience people and Program Managers to see what traction we can make.

• Anonymous
  September 15, 2005
  I didn't exactly ditch my tablet, but I did buy a Toshiba Satellite laptop with a 17" LCD which quickly became my primary computer. Reason? Because I am a developer and I wanted horsepower and screen real-estate more than portability. At least I thought I did. I couldn't live without the Tablet PC so I wound up keeping both and keeping (rather trying to keep) them both in sync.
  
  This got old real quick and then it hit me... what I really needed was a big monitor (Dell 24" LCD, DVI) and a lightweight slate tablet with a big hard drive. The Motion LE1600 was the only tablet offering DVI so I got it. However, without the ISV discount, it would have been far too expensive.
  
  With that said, I am much much much happier now with one machine to maintain and when I am at my desk, I have a nice 1920x1200 desktop environment and I can just grab it and go and I've still got my portability.

• Anonymous
  June 07, 2008
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